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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> Let's see your 4 year old son have a go at it then.
(comment about installing win games on linux with wine)
1. whose 4 year old son uses a pc?
2. I would not let him play the shooters until 14-18 years (some sons are responsable enough with 14, but the father has to decide if this is possible)
Another point of linux:
linux is not a gaming os.
linux has in fact its roots from unix systems. unix as linux were meant to be only as network os for servers and so on.
Now linux does this job excellent.
(take statistics, it is known as most stable os for servers, and there are more linux servers then windows, so the argument as "more used, more cracked" does not help defend windows.)
Now the developers are aiming linux as desktop solution, but mainly for enterprises. As you can see, there is already a migration of win to lin .
This means, the desktop is good enough. I do not miss anything. Keep in mind the pure desktop, no applications installed.
Well, it is not easy enough to install? yes, hardware is a problem as most hardware developers yet not develop drivers.
Easying lin for home users is now in steady and fast advancing progress. One problem remains.
Lin is different to win. As you had a learning curve to learn win, this is also for linux. I know many people having a lot of problems with win, but because many people use win, the chance asking someone and getting an solution is high. Besides this, Microsoft has influenced many people with advertisements how easy win is, that is not completely right.
A mac advertisement brings this to the point: Think different.
Well, I want to point out with this explanations:
Developing the desktop for enterprises is more important.
Why?
more desktops in enterprises --> more hardware developers will be forced to make lin drivers --> more home users will use linux as hardware does no more matter, parallel to this more commercial software will be developed as marketshare grows --> more game developers will see a potential market --> surely this leads also to more standardization of fast API's for games.
So for me gaming is last in the row, although quite many home users play (me too). *sigh*