On Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:51 am Mustafa Qasim wrote: > Well! what about games? All the popular games comes for Windows machine. My > friend loves to play latest PC games like Counter Strike, Need for Speed, > Age of Empires, F.E.A.R, Grand Theft Auto, World of Warcraft n so many > others. > > Well, I didn't have much interest in games so didn't tried it but can Wine > Let him help to let F7 kick out XP without creating any trouble for his > game passion? Well... that's really the only major point that holds up Linux desktop adoption; as you noted, most games work on Windows only. Wine can run some of them, but AFAIK the only way to get consistent behavior is to dual-boot and run Windows for games and games only. Or you can use a virtual machine (though you don't get 3D that way...). -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
