http://www.ukfastblog.co.uk/2009/02/22/wine-the-linux-drink-of-choice/ This blog speaks of some apps performing better on Wine than on Windows on the same hardware. The example given is Quake 3. Are there other examples? It occurs to me that a list of reproducible examples (hardware, Wine version, Windows version) would make a good page on the Wine wiki. - d.