Linux vs. Windows

[Sevoma]

Some people say CS:S runs better through wine/cedega than on windows!

I kno wine stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator:, but what is it then?

 

[macdude425]

I kno wine stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator:, but what is it then?

Originally posted on winehq.org
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.

Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.

 

[void]

BTW void, Wine is not an emulator.

Hmmmm, didn't know that thanks.

Some people say CS:S runs better through wine/cedega than on windows!

Found this, I think it explains why.

Wine just provides the Windows API. This means that you will need an x86-compatible processor to run an x86 Windows application, for instance from Intel or AMD. The advantage is that, unlike solutions that rely on CPU emulation, Wine runs applications at full speed. Sometimes a program run under Wine will be slower than when run on a copy of Microsoft Windows, but this is more due to the fact that Microsoft has heavily optimized parts of their code, whereas mostly Wine is not well optimized (yet). Occasionally, an app may run faster under Wine than on Windows. Most apps run at roughly the same speed.