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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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This Patch Boosts Linux Gaming Performance By 50%+ (And other programs) (news.itsfoss.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Doing that improved performance for Windows apps on Linux when using Wine or Valve's Proton that is based on the former. [...] benchmarks that show games running better with average improvement rates ranging from 50% to 150% when using the new driver compared to not using it.

Talking about improvements for Wine and Proton then providing no actual data for Proton (which is already using a completely different mehod for syncs - yes the basic wine method sucks) is either stupid or intentionally misleading.

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

I believe this replaces esync and fsync. IIRC it's slightly faster and has the benefit of being mainlined.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

fsync is mainlined since January 2022 (5.16 iirc).