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> What is the technical use case for Wine these days?

Gaming on Linux using Windows games is a widely common use case. Wine works very well for most DX9 games already, but DX11 support is still quite WIP.

> if you've got virtualization support, and pcie pass-through support, why not just run this stuff through a Windows VM?

Because you don't want to run Windows? There can be multiple reasons for the later.



I remember many years ago you at best had a chance to get opengl games working under wine; getting anything directX working was a pipe dream.

Today most DirecX 9 games work flawlessly out of the box (including one click install from steam, also running under wine).


I use GOG installers, but yes, Wine today comparing to its early days is simply amazing.




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