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Pascal DeSacre	Posted - 2006.03.15 14:38:00 - [1] Originally by: Oveur Originally by: Sevarus James As I see you're up and about Oveur, I have to agree to a degree. On the gaming side, Linux has roadblocks, partly due to Microsoft's DX standards vs. the OpenGL standard on "nix". ID software has made a stand about making sure to write for the platform, as have a few other game companies, but you are correct in the 'acceptance' side of things. I DO disagree with you on the desktop side in general. Lindows is a good example, but an even better one is Ubuntu. Mark Shuttleworth is really on a mission to 'enable' an alternative to the MS monopoly, and is doing so by making SURE that the distro is freely accessible AND FREE as well as being fully supported by his Canonical Corporation. Mandriva, Fedora Core also come to mind as very VERY good 'joe-user' desktops. Finally, SUSE 10+ being developed by Novell is now really taking the industry by storm due to the XGL initiative which is bringing some serious horsepower to the desktop and opengl. This has given us linux 'gamers' high hopes as it raises the bar AND awareness of the platform as an alternative to the closed source offerings. I also must add that this newest release of Cedega has really helped EVE for those of us who DO chose the alternative, and if you folks gave advice/help to the Transgaming folks, I am giving you a big BRAVO and thankyou! If not......neverrr mind. (emily litella voice). Like I said, not quite there yet. Ubuntu is getting there, SUSE might get there etc. So we do actually agree, but I still feel they have a way to go in minimizing the transition from windows. And yet I hardly ever see that argument against Macs. The transition is perfectly easy; most Linux GUIs these days are as similar in appearance to Windows as MacOS, many are more similar to MacOS, which many people think offers an easier experiance than Windows for the generic PEBKAC user. The only reason I dont run Linux alone at the moment is college; my HD doesnt have the room for an extra partition, and all my college work is dependant on Microsoft software. And I know sod-all about command line or any of that malarky, I just want a more stable computing experiance that wont cost me a couple of grand(bloody Vista ).

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