Posted on 09/17/2013 6:15:59 AM PDT by ShadowAce
That is most definitely NOT the reason Linux hasn’t made it to desk tops. The reason is that Linux is absolutely user-hostile: “if you’re not part of the guild, you are an ignorant fool, who we wouldn’t even want to use our product.” Any given program has dependencies upon dependencies upon dependencies, each of which is maddening for the non-CS-major to install. WHAT? You don’t know how to sed your recursive grep of the root directory?
“But there are more user-friendly GUIs that run on Linux that are expanding all the time!” Yeah: like MacOS, which has been around how many years, and had how many of billions of dollars behind it? Like Ubuntu (which *is* a nice program) is going to make it where MacOS couldn’t?
I cannot make Steam work on my Ubuntu computer
The new OpenOS 4 looks very Windows-like
I can install major pieces of software--even if no dependencies are already installed--much easier on Linux than I can on Windows.
Interesting. I’m running Steam without any issues.
I know. Maybe my low-end laptop is missing something?
What are the symptoms?
Give me access to my entire PC game library and I will never look at Windows on my gaming PC again!
OK—What are your games?
Let me try it again, I’ll get back to you
Ya. Unless they plan to run Linux on a console. Consoles have beat out desktops for games.
Games are still a lot better on a desktop, though. By far. But a >cheap< console (in comparison to a desktop) is adequate for most.
right now it just will not start Team Fortress. I’ll download something else, something small and see what happens.
The problem Newell does not see is that the future of gaming is across multiple devices, not just one.
Microsoft understands this and is way ahead in converging XBox with PC, Tablet and Phone. Write a game once and it can work across all those devices.
Linux is highly fragmented and not available across multiple types of hardware unless you do it yourself.
Today’s gamers are far different from the gamers yesterday.
It’s not real worth the hassle since I’m not really into it. I don’t have enough RAM or a graphics accelerator, so there are few games like that I can play any ways.
There are tons more games one can play on Windows, because so many use it that is what game makers make them for. It is that simple.
Team Fortress Classic, or Team Fortress 2?
You're joking, right?
I think its 2
been a while since I tried, it never worked, I noticed at Ubuntu forums back then I wasn’t the only one and I gave up
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