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Completed NTSYNC Driver Merged For Linux 6.14: "Should Make Many SteamOS Users Happy"


The 'char/misc' pull request was submitted today for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window and already merged to the Linux Git tree..

This was expected as I wrote about earlier this month that the completed NTSYNC was slated for Linux 6.14 after making it into the "-next" branch for char/misc. "ntsync driver to handle Windows locking types enabling Wine to work much better on many workloads (i.e. games). Linux 6.14 is expected to power the likes of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 out-of-the-box while hopefully the Wine/Proton patches for NTSYNC usage will be merged soon.

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