Linked by Steve Husted on Mon 13th Sep 2004 08:28 UTC
Linux gaming. Let's face it - it's terrible. Tux Racer? Please. Quake III, okay, I'll give you that. NeverWinter Nights? If you can get it to work. WINE? If you have enough hair left to pull out, WINE is a good choice.
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... I don't think it's improving in the areas that matter most.
not even ssh to help you...
gaming is not the area that matter most
It's definitely true that Linux is virtually free of viruses and spyware. (Largely due to the fact that it's install base is too insignificant for bad guys to bother with.)
viruses and spyware need a homogene evironment to spread. Linux is not hogene... viruses and spyware use features of windows bundled application. such featur aren't planed on moust OS programs (JavaScript to send mail)
In fact, I think it's pathetically unstable. X hangs regularly. If I'm lucky I can ssh into my machine, kill X, and restart it. If I'm not lucky, I have to reset my computer.
that must be a feature of your config. I use Mandrake and an nVidia card (nVidia driver), and not a single chresh. all was automaticli configured....
Window movement, resizing, redrawing is still painfully slow. Face it ... X is a joke. Linux needs a new windowing engine.)
right on this one. X protocol "feature", but X.org server 6.8 solvs some(or moust) of issus...
Every time I boot my computer, I wait and watch, and then breathe a sigh of relief when X actually comes up. At least 20% of the time, I just get a black screen. CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE does nothing. CTRL+ALT+F1 does nothing.
try using a bugy driver on windows
Totem/gxine/other mpg players ... laughable. When they work, they are sorta OK. But just as often as not, they don't work. (Windows Media Player blows, but it always works.)
mplayer and xine work for me 100% of the time. try solve codec conflicts on windows...
ALSA, OSS, OSS emulation, gstreamer, etc... it's hard enough understanding what that junk even is, let alone how to properly manage it.
try a user friendly distro, and you don't have to manage/understand
So where was I? Oh yeah. Linux rules. w00t. In your face Bill Gates. boo-ya, boo-ya to the all mighty penguin. Hail Linus! (sarcasm)