Linux

[Jase]

Damn liar

Ooooo you can be such a bitch

[ryanside]

im gonna be sticking ubuntu on my lappy once i upgrade my PC, need something which will paly games you see.

I do alot of linux server stuff at uni, we have to use vmware though to make loads of other machine so we can actually have our own network lol. it is interesting though

[Rasputin]

See the pair of you not got an answer between you.......
Sums it all up with a Penguin in charge, at least windows has the worlds richest man at the helm! Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy sending him my money for software

Sorry jase was that a "Windows has encountered a unexpected error" you see not even Windows knows whats wrong with it.

[Claw]

A friend who used to be in the American Air Force once told me that their philosophy is that if you stick a big enough engine on anything it'll fly.

Microsoft's big engine is its money, and the hardware vendors it manipulates with their money, and Windows does "fly" off the shelves not because of quality, but purely because of "packaging."

Linux is designed, properly nurtured, and requires someone with an eye for quality to appreciate it. If all the games you own were written for Linux, or properly ported to Linux, they would run a million times better than what you experience in Windows.

imho...

[Rasputin]

Linux does work off the shelf in most cases and installs most drivers during the OS install the only Drivers you really need to get yourself are the Graphic card drivers.

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Very True why do you think that most of the servers for these games run on Unix/Linux

[Trig]

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Theres the nail right there.

[mcmav]

The only good linux is the version running on ma dreambox

[Rasputin]

Earlier there was talk of Games on Linux. Well I was searching to see if Neverwinter nights 2 would be released on Linux and I found <a href="http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/sh ... p?t=444382" target="_blank">this</a> 58 pages of Linux Users wanting Atari to release a Mac/Linux version using OpenGL. I wouldn't bother reading it unless your into that should of thing but BIOWARE have said that OpenGL is just as powerful as directX.

Now with that said why don't more Dev's use OpenGL 2.0 instead of DirectX so that their product can reach more ppl, Well It's because of MicroSoft and the money taht they throw at everything. The Linux users I know and speak to on the net they are more than happy to buy Games on Linux because most of the another apps are free, Where as the Windows users that I know grugde paying for anything as they have to pay for everything. But as with everything once they start if they start making games for Linux ppl will downlaod them for free.

After saying that there are many many Good games for linux UT2004 ,Quake 4 and Doom 3 to name a few HeadLiners. But apart from that many games that Windows Users have never heard of: Tux Racer, Super Tux and Queist which are free and the list of games that come in the box with SuSE Linux is huge. Companies are releasing games but they do not have the money to release the big titles.

Software for Linux is mostly free and does the job that all Windows apps do just without the shiny bits. A couple of things that you should be aware of are : you do NOT get spyware on Linux, Viruses are rarer than a inner-city virgin, Linux is moduler which means that no matter how many programs you install and uninstall your system will not slow down or lose proformance.

*Please ignore my bad spelling*

[Claw]

Theres the nail right there.

Argumentum ad populum... just because a lot of people use Windows, doesn't make it the better of the two choices.

Whether a person buys Windows or obtains it by some other means requires them to be Microsoft's cheap labour software tester.

Add to this that there are some brilliant and very imaginative developers out there, but sadly they are limited by the integral, and legal, restrictions of Windows.

You can spend ooodles of money on your new hardware... but you won't be getting your full value for money from it through Windows.