Donald Correll wrote:
Hey Wayde,
Too bad I have to eat. I work in a corporate environment where Linux is a niche player. I love to experiment with Linux and Free BSD but the bread and butter is still with Sore Bill and Micro$haft. Worse yet when my son wants to play games it is XP home. Wouldn't it be lovely if we could banish the bullies from Redmond but it is going to be a long battle. So grin and just enjopy whatever OS you are forced to work with (when you have no other choice).
Donald Correll, who wishes he could get the money back he spent on MCP 70-210 and reinvest in Linux Net Admin.
I think that if you investigate you will find that most games will run under Linux, some have native Linux installs others need Wine. For one game (UT2003) I was unable to get it to install under Win98 but it installed fine in FC1 on the same machine. I will admit that sometimes it takes a little reading to figure out how to install under Linux. However, unless you keeners work at it and ask the game companies for Linux versions they will continue to pump out Windows-only stuff. If you don't ask for it you won't get it...
From the other side of the coin, I work in software development and I am seeing more and more requests to have our products run multi-platform. Also our IT dept. is starting to make Linux workstation installs available, not just the Win2K/WinXP stuff and I see some of the mid-range servers (IBM iSeries boxes) are doing their job using Redhat Linux.
Does all this mean that Windows should be "banished", I would hope not (please don't throw things!) as I would imagine that having choice in operating systems would make all of the choices stronger(i.e., more stable) and more reasonably priced. And having competition would help the different Linuxi (Linuxes ?) arrive at a good common install mechanism (PRM seems to work fine for me).
Just my CAD$0.02 for choice
Mike
