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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Windows games running better with Wine than on Windows has been a thing for at least 20 years, Proton (which is a fork of Wine, people tend to forget) didn't invent anything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's mainly DXVK and vkd3d-proton that enable this (projects associated with Valve and Proton). It was usually only native OGL games that performed better on old-school Wine; the wined3d translation layer has been hit and miss historically.

That's not to downplay the huge amount of work that has gone into Wine itself.