Windows programs on Linux

[johnridley]

I moved another program over to Linux on my machine last night. This is a program which under Windows (XP or 7) when re-verifying its dataset would take about 45 minutes. Under Linux, about 40 seconds to do the same job. The job involves opening and examining the contents of several thousand files.

So far every Windows program that I've installed (I try to go with native Linux software, but I have gone with Windows software for 4 or 5 programs) has run faster and at least as well if not better than it does under Windows.

I was REALLY surprised that the games I bought a couple of months ago, which require DirectX 9, ran without a hitch when installed.

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[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

The filesystem stuff really doesn't surprise me. They've been doing a bang-up job of working on the FS over the past several years. At the current job, our group has finally ported the remainder of our stuff over to Linux from OpenBSD and the speedup just on a filesystem level has been just sort of insane.

(This says somewhat more about how OpenBSD's filesystem sucks.)