Helps all of wine:
ntsync driver to handle Windows locking types enabling Wine to work much better on many workloads (i.e. games). The driver framework was in 6.13, but now it’s enabled and fully working properly. Should make many SteamOS users happy. Even comes with tests!
I wonder how much improvements is it going to bring to Proton, though. I don’t remember the last time I ran a game on pure WINE.
If I understand correctly, very little. Since proton already implemeted esync, which was a workaround for this.
Proton is mostly just wine and esync has been replaced by fsync a while back. Ntsync is another even faster/better sync mechanism.
awww. I somehow thought it was coming in 6.13 (which is in testing -repos for arch atm), oh well.
Either way, seems like good stuff for gaming and - hopefully - productivity apps.
We sure came a long way from the early days where Linux didn’t have USB support to sometimes running Window apps better than Windows
