{"id":227514,"date":"2026-03-25T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/wine-11-might-be-the-tipping-point-that-finally-pushes-gamers-from-windows-to-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:25:09","slug":"wine-11-might-be-the-tipping-point-that-finally-pushes-gamers-from-windows-to-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/wine-11-might-be-the-tipping-point-that-finally-pushes-gamers-from-windows-to-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine 11 might be the tipping point that finally pushes gamers from Windows to Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/wine-11-linux-gaming-windows-switch\/\">Wine 11 might be the tipping point that finally pushes gamers from Windows to Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/wine-11-linux-gaming-windows-switch\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/wine-11-linux-gaming-windows-switch\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-25 12:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Paul Souders via Stone \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET: <span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span> on Google.<\/p>\n<h3> ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Wine 11 brings near-native performance to Windows games on Linux.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to NTSYNC, performance bottlenecks are a thing of the past.<\/li>\n<li>Wine 11 is now available in most distro default repositories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I remember, in 1999, when I used Wine for the first time to run the original Diablo game. I thought I&#8217;d done something very special (as did all of my Linux-curious friends). Back then, running games with Wine was no easy feat.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a couple of decades, and Wine has made massive strides forward. It seemed Linux was on the precipice of something great. Then Valve stepped into the picture and ramped up support on Linux for Windows games, and things moved from the possible to the probable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0My 11 favorite Linux distributions of all time, ranked<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And now, the developers of Wine have announced a change that will likely be the final push gamers need to migrate from Windows to Linux. That change comes in the form of NTSYNC support. This new feature was introduced as a kernel driver in January 2026 and retools how Windows games synchronize threads on Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Let me rephrase that in a way that everyone will understand: <\/p>\n<p>Wine NTSYNC support brings performance gains of up to 678% for games on Linux. \t<\/p>\n<p>The Wine developers shifted how thread synchronization works by way of a new \/dev\/ntsync device to solve an issue that has plagued gaming on Linux for over a decade. Now, Windows games will run at native or near-native performance without rewriting a single line of code. <\/p>\n<p>Previously, Wine handled Windows NT synchronization via RPC (Remote Procedure Call) through a process called wineserver. That workaround required data to be sent over a socket to wineserver, which would then perform the operation on the data, and send the reply back. Given how many of these calls modern games make per second, it could lead to a serious bottleneck. <\/p>\n<p>In other words, wineserver was a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/wine-11-linux-gaming-windows-switch\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wine 11 might be the tipping point that finally pushes gamers from Windows to Linux&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/1d80d73202590343ac1213b7ccad4c2db7ec6bdb\/2026\/03\/25\/01177ed7-eb6c-4f0d-9f1f-b0beea586331\/gettyimages-534969766.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-227514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227516,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227514\/revisions\/227516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}