{"id":227604,"date":"2026-03-25T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/more-reasons-to-dump-windows-for-gaming\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:40:10","slug":"more-reasons-to-dump-windows-for-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/more-reasons-to-dump-windows-for-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"More Reasons To Dump Windows For Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pcper.com\/2026\/03\/more-reasons-to-dump-windows-for-gaming\/\">More Reasons To Dump Windows For Gaming<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pcper.com\/2026\/03\/more-reasons-to-dump-windows-for-gaming\/\">https:\/\/pcper.com\/2026\/03\/more-reasons-to-dump-windows-for-gaming\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-25 14:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"pcper.com\">pcper.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Wine Gets NTSYNC Support, And SteamOS 3.8.0 Preview Brings Lots Of New Features<\/h2>\n<p>While Microsoft slowly removes things that no one asked for in an attempt to stem the disgust being expressed by their users, gaming on Linux just keeps getting better.\u00a0 If you have been using Wine to game on a Linux box you really want to grab the latest version, Wine 11.\u00a0 The update includes NTSYNC and if you are playing a game that supports it you will see huge performance gains.\u00a0 For instance Dirt 3 went from 110.6 FPS to 860.7 FPS, and the original COD:BLOPS is now perfectly playable.\u00a0 You won\u2019t see much improvement in games which don\u2019t support NTSYNC but it is far superior to fsync which Wine used previously.<\/p>\n<p>If you are playing with SteamOS then the new 3.8.0 preview release now supports Steam Deck and other handheld gaming devices as well as even more PC hardware.\u00a0 The new SteamOS is built off of an Arch Linux base with Linux kernel version 6.16 as well as a brand new KDE Plasma desktop environment which dumps X11 in favour of Wayland.\u00a0 Valve did not give an update on the release of their Steam Machines, which is not terribly surprising considering the state of the market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Drop by Ars Technica for more details on what SteamOS 3.8.0 offers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pcper.com\/2026\/03\/more-reasons-to-dump-windows-for-gaming\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Reasons To Dump Windows For Gaming https:\/\/pcper.com\/2026\/03\/more-reasons-to-dump-windows-for-gaming\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-25 14:47:00 Source Domain: pcper.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/pcper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wine-11.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,71],"class_list":["post-227604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227604"}],"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=227604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227606,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227604\/revisions\/227606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}