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- mozillamonks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Of course, many games will run in DOSbox and Wine, so, you can get many of your (older) Windows games to Linux.
Robin - CptnObvious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If you talk to most people following the open source movement they will tell you that there is no stopping Linux. Everyday it grows and everyday we get more developers and even if they don't code things they help report bugs and create mock ups or just answer questions on the forums. So our "staff" has become way more than any business could afford to employ. The only thing Microsoft can do, or anyone else for that matter, is throw out FUD and legal barriers to slow it down. But the open source community does not get discouraged and I would say at this point nothing is going to stop Linux. Its only a matter of time.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4>Will the lack of games kill Desktop Linux?
It didn't hurt the adoption of Desktop WindowsNT. WindowsNT had huge marketshare LONG before you could run a single game on it. It wasn't until W2K/XP that Windows NT could play games.
People think about the home market too much. Home PC use is a TINY part of the real desktop market, and gaming IS NOT REQUIRED for adoption in that marketplace. - Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not everyone plays video games. You have to remember most chicks who use PC's only get on IM Internet P2P.
There's 51% for you, majority. HUSH! ;)
NO I'M NOT SAYING CHICKS DON'T PLAY VIDEO GAMES. - fyngyrz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5The main thing Linux is lacking is an in-place set of GUI widgets that developers can depend upon and which does not incur financial or open source consequences on the developer. If it had that, it'd be a considerably more viable platform to develop for commercially.
Compare this to the Mac or to Windows, and you'll see that both of these other platforms have a broad, useful GUI infrastructure that anyone, PD, open source, commercial, can use without cost or obligation. So, of course, that's what happens. Under Linux, the first thing that usually ends up in your face is "if you use this code, your code is open source", and that's the end of the project, right there. Or, "For commercial projects, our widgets are X thousand dollars", an approach that locks out all the small developers on day one.
I understand that (finally) red hat and some others are working to resolve this, but until it's done, Linux will remain a backwater for commercial projects that aren't GUI-neutral (like web servers and so forth.) - BGOATdoughnut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just have both installed. ONe for use and one for games. That's what I shall do.
- plugitin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What I don't understand is why can't developers make games that work on both platforms. I've *love* Linux (although I ironically have only installed it once but had to remove it because I had messed up my Windows partition) but the only thing holding me back is that fact that Linux has nowhere near the gaming support as Windows. I am not a die-hard-core gamer or anything, but I love to play some CS:S or something every once and a while, and if Linux supported this then I would delete windows right now. No joke
- dukeinlondon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Interesting point about widgets and similar. Is it really so ?
- BGOATdoughnut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Only bad thing is... uhh...
Well me and haroldx over there we talking about how Vista will suck ass if your computer can't display the new visual additions. It will look like be like retrogression. From XP back to commnd line ran Operation System. :o - jrepin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Exactly. That's how we do it, Linux for serious work and safe networking and Windows for gaming. Well soon (or not so soon) Windows will be replaced with PlayStation 3. And when this happens I can finally say goodbye to Windows and never look back.
- Jaymoon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2^ Uh, yeah, what he said... and more games!
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