Wine 11 might be the tipping point that finally pushes gamers from Windows to Linux

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Wine 11 brings near-native performance to Windows games on Linux.
• Thanks to NTSYNC, performance bottlenecks are a thing of the past.
• Wine 11 is now available in most distro default repositories.

I remember, in 1999, when I used Wine for the first time to run the original Diablo game. I thought I'd done something very special (as did all of my Linux-curious friends). Back then, running games with Wine was no easy feat.

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. 

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