From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 13 02:47:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8786716A4CE for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 02:47:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA7943D3F for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 02:47:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BOCo5-00030P-00 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:47:13 +0200 Received: from r2i215.mistral.cz ([62.245.72.215]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:47:13 +0200 Received: from element by r2i215.mistral.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 11:47:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Pavel Duda Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:47:52 +0200 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <20040512153811.F1552@hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro> <20040513092623.A7207@hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r2i215.mistral.cz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20040513092623.A7207@hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro> Sender: news Subject: Re: wine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:47:16 -0000 Radu MOLNAR wrote: > I believe that this is where the opensource comunity in general looses to > windows. I dont know about you guys but computer games is how i got in > touch with IT and i see that is still hapening with kids nowadays. > The only reason i still install windows on my desktop is to > play games. I would gladly give up the microsoft products and most of my > friends would do so too if it wasn't for the reason mentioned above. > > You may say that games are not important but i must disagree. How can one > claim to make an OS for workstations if you can not play games in that OS. > Games are the peak of multimedia aplications. Just take a look at the > slashdot.org site and you will see that every day the GAMES section has > the most new news. > > If we want an alternative to windows (we wants it) than maybe we should > concentrate our energies on making a desktop. But these are just the > rambling words of a guy that is frustrated of having to use microsoft > operating systems, having to pay a lot of money for them and then getting > the quality that we all know. > whatever > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Problem is not quality of fbsd. Problem is that you have to emulate proprietary Windoz (with proprietary DirectX) to run games, because that game wasnt released for *nix. This is about number of installations and about attitude of game developers. And to be honest, would you develop some game for fbsd/linux if u know there will be maybe 10k copies sold ? Fortunately I'm playing Enemy Territory now and it is available under FreeBSD :-).