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To: SwedishConservative

1: No game support. As long as games for the PC are for Windows primarly, Linux will never get any kind of adoption on high/mid-range home PC:s.

Yeah, that's been a huge problem for Apple. :)

PC gaming is fading out, anyway - most serious players prefer consoles.

16 posted on 09/11/2010 10:33:47 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)

...most serious players prefer consoles.

Only because consoles have become more like PC's. Connectivity, the ability to do more than just play games, etc...

18 posted on 09/11/2010 10:37:28 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (III, Alarm and Muster)

Yeah, that's been a huge problem for Apple. :)

PC gaming is fading out, anyway - most serious players prefer consoles.

The #1 PC game maker is Blizzard (World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, Warcraft) and they have first class support for Apple Macs.

Gaming is a classic chicken or egg problem. My strategery is to avoid anything Microsoft Windows only. It works out fine. I really only have time for one game and World of Warcraft has first class support for Mac OS X, and unofficial support for Linux under Wine. (The Blizzard developers worked with the Wine developers so that the Warden, their anti-cheat subsystem, recognizes Wine as a valid platform).

44 posted on 09/11/2010 9:44:29 PM PDT by altair (Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent - Salvor Hardin)

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