Despite their best attempts, Linux software companies say they are still having a hard time luring average consumers away from the Windows environment--but that may not necessarily be a bad thing. Novell's vice president: "(Linux on the desktop) is not the sexy story that it used to be. However, there are some very steady and irreversible trends."
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Member since:you subscribe to transgaming yet cannot get hl2 to work...
subscribers get point2play included, which makes installing hl2 simply point and click affair...
now considering that you are not trying to spread FUD, the thing might be that your distro automounts the disc and you need it to switch
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Most gamers have this attitude, unfortunately it's wrong. PC gaming is something full of obnoxious pitfalls, and it's a large group: Probably 3-5% of PC users. But that's not the key at all. It'd be nice to play my games on *nix; but it's not the key to desktop adoption. The work PC is, if anything is. Espcially with work laptops which people tend to use as their home PC as well; if they aren't big home PC users. Education is another big spot: Teaching the next generation to use more than one tool will be a great help in teaching it to not be dependent on one tool. Kids should be exposed to at least a couple ways of doing things: Not taught Microsoft Word, but Microsoft Word and maybe Open Office or another tool which actually has to be learned like latex.
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Even I dont have Linux native games because their not what I want. Doom 3 nice looking but pointless game. I like strategy (Rome total war) and elite style games (X2). Cant get them to work using wine or Winex (cedega). CAnt even get HL2 to work even though it is advertised.
It's a bit of an off-topic, but if you like elite style games you could try VegaStrike(http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/), that in my judgment it's becoming even better than most commercial game of the genre (try also the VegaStrike Privateer mod!), and for strategy you could give a try to "Battle for Wesnoth"(,http://www.wesnoth.org/), "FreeCiv"(http://www.freeciv.org/), Boson (http://boson.eu.org/index.php), UFO A.I.(http://www.ufoai.net/) -even if this is a bit lagging in development-...
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This may sound absurd but gaming is the key. In the old DOS days I first saw a D&D game that was my reason to get a pc, ahem...as well as college work. I saw the potential for the pc to be a great gaming machine as well as having a more powerful computer than my Amstrad CPC. Then along came wolfenstein and simcity, then Doom which I think clinched it. The rest is now history. Gaming is a reason general computer users get a PC, whether they admit it or not. It's the same with Mac and OS X. OS X is a great OS but most people wont touch it as there is not game support. Even I'd have one.
I stupidly subscribe to Transgaming and can hardly get anything running. The distro companies need to contact either the big name companies or some independant game studios and help bring gaming to the platform. There are some great native games but not enough to convert the general user. Things like, believe it or not, The Sims series would help. I know transgaming tried and Loki tried but it needs more effort. Even I dont have Linux native games because their not what I want. Doom 3 nice looking but pointless game. I like strategy (Rome total war) and elite style games (X2). Cant get them to work using wine or Winex (cedega). CAnt even get HL2 to work even though it is advertised.
It is catch 22. Developers (or rather publishers) wont create the games because there's no games and people wont convert because their games wont run.
It's not just about the desktop. Look in the games forums. Always someone saying 'I am not switching until there is proper games support'
As I said it sounds absurd but it is true.