I think the comparison is more about memory overhead, startup time, open ecosystem, platform flexibility. Not being chained to Microsoft decisions when it comes

I think the comparison is more about memory overhead, startup time, open ecosystem, platform flexibility. Not being chained to Microsoft decisions when it comes to gaming down the road potentially. I also get annoyed with keeping 10's of GB of vm's around. Although wineprefixes balloon in size pretty quick too. Then there is backwards compatibility. Wine can provide more flexibility to support older OS's on the same code base.