On Tuesday 03 September 2002 08.33, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
And all this talk means companies won't make native Linux optimized games.
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well without games I would say a great many desktops will either stay Windows or dual booted. :/
This, I believe, is what is known as a catch 22. I personally believe wine is A Good Thing, for exactly this reason. Without desktop linux users game developers won't develop for linux, and without games running on linux, people won't switch to linux. Enter wine, which hopefully one day in the future will be able to run windows games as easily as under windows. People will, after a few trials, dare to take the plunge, and the number of desktop linux users will rise, prompting a few companies to use portable libraries to develop native linux versions, while others will rely on wine. Eventually, there will be more and more native versions, until we reach the fabled critical mass. I think it'll be alright in the end //Anders