Joe Sloan wrote:
David wrote:
I only pop over to the XP side to play games.
It always strikes me as odd when I hear people say how 'bloze is so great for games. There is one thing in ms favor, and that is the availability of game titles, due to their large, long term market share.
But that's not to say that there are no games for linux. Over the years I've played games on linux (I kind of like the networked 3D FPS variety) starting with good old doom in the mid 90s, to doom 2, then quake, quake 2, quake 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, ut2000, ut2004, Enemy Territory, and more, all 100% native linux games.
The problem is that right now, there is a dearth of Linux titles for modern games. A couple FPS have been ported, but ever since Loki went out of business, the opportunity to run things like RailRoad Tycoon, unfortunately depends on a Windows installation :-(.
There are of course a lot of games that are available for ms and not for linux, but you know what? I already spend way too much time gaming, but if I were really determined to play one of those games, I could run it under wine, or failing that, buy a console.
Unfortunately, DirectX is a moving target ... And I think a lot of this is purely for lock-in effect, and not much more.
At any rate, I don't feel the need, nor the faintest desire, to resort to wintendo for games, or anything else.
Joe
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