Null Ack schrieb: > Its not lunacy at all. > > I do own a 360, but I consider the PC gaming experience to be superior > to a console. As well, there is many use cases of having cool uses for > linux gaming - such as on mobile media devices or mobile phones. > > There is no technical reason why Linux gaming cant occur. Linux works > on many platforms and is open, so cool apps like say a linux phone > running GLTron or indeed an SLI powerhouse running the latest opengl > and openal FPS. > > You will be surprised Daniel how often I see people saying they dont > run Linux because the gaming experience is poor. > > Perhaps if you more carefully considered your position you would not > be so quick to dismiss it out of hand. > The PC gaming experience is indeed superior, which is why it's better to have a copy of Windows than it is to buy a 360 or similar. It's also much cheaper - no extra hardware costs, except maybe for a separate hard drive, and the individual games cost less (and (mostly) no BS online gaming subscriptions).
Some people waste a lot of time and effort trying to get Windows games running on Linux using Wine and/or Cedega, but life's too short for that kind of fscking around IMHO (something I found out through bitter experience ;) ). Me, I have my 'Wintendo' and I'm happy :) -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
