Once Linux becomes the premiere platform for gaming, the kernel will be expanded to make gaming faster. I see no problem with this.

there's a disgusting implication that Linux is stealing code from Windows to implement APIs from this title

I can't wait to get rage baited about it from my windows using friends

"Linux is only doing good now because they're copying windows APIs into the kernel!"

how shit of a software company do you have to be where your own os's software running through a translation layer on another operating system is threatening to run faster than natively on your os. somethings gotta snap.

Screw Windows! I'm going to make my own Windows, with blackjack, and hookers!

I wonder how they like being on the other side of Embarce, Extend, Extinguish

Unlike in Windows, in Linux the graphics UI concerns are outside the kernel, so graphics layers sit pretty close to the hardware, so even just from that higher performance was already expected as the adaptor layers such as Wine/Proton improved because the kernel itself is faster and gets less in the way.

Then, of course, the Linux kernel tends to be developed by people with lots of experience, overseen by people genuinelly at the Software Architecture level of experience and given its architecture benefits from know-how both from the server-side and the front-end sides of software development.

My point being that the Linux architecture is not only far more mature and controlled by far more experienced people than the Windows one, but it also gets way less in the way of graphics applications trying to squeeze as much performance as possible from the system hence in Linux improving such graphics applications or the adapter layers for them can go further in delivering better performance than in Windows were the kernel becomes a performance bottleneck sooner.

What we're seeing now is those two effects delivering, especially once the Wine/Proton adaptor layers matured and entered a stage of more performance and stability improvements than feature implementations.

Windows is pretty bad. Microsoft should be split up. If I had the magic powers, its leadership would be stripped of wealth, barred from holding similar positions for life, and have their faces on some sort of wall of shame. Everyone is allowed to throw trash at them, and they have to pick it up.

I always thought it would have been cool if some rogue and disgruntled programmer with the skills to do so, built DirectX and other Windows proprietary stuff natively into a Linux distro illegally.

oh wow the third xda post of the year about ntsync. it's been on since November 2025 btw

And its getting better more modern implementations. Not code from the mid 2000s that has been run though dozens of code translations and compatibility layers.

I knew the article was going to mention NTSYNC, but is that really it?

I get that we don't want the argument for compatibility to effectively allow windows to define what the linux kernel has to looks like, but afaik this is one instance. The headline makes it sound like a systemic issue.