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 was dual booting Mandrake and Win98, where I was using Mandrake for web-browing and Win98 for games.
When WinXP arrived, I figured that:
- WinXP reliability is equivalent to Linux (for desktop usage) if you treat it well (but you have to be careful also with Linux anyway).
- Web-browsing on WindowsXP is now quite good thanks to Mozilla (no pop-up, no spam..).
And I was tired of having two OS to patch, to configure, so I dumped Linux.
I may reinstall Linux if I want to do some programming, I find programming on Linux easier than on Windows, but it is a matter of taste..
Frankly if one likes gaming, Linux is not interesting and I don't expect that the situation will change soon..
The Windows marketshare is so big, why would game's editors care about making game portables?
The expense of making the games portable and the added distribution effort probably cost more than it brings money, so this won't change until Linux has a much bigger share than it has now on the desktop.
And no games --> slow increase on desktop, this vicious circle won't be broken soon!