Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:47:52 +0200 From: Pavel Duda <element@email.cz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wine Message-ID: <c7vg6u$v58$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20040513092623.A7207@hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro> References: <20040512153811.F1552@hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro> <c7ua9h$ro2$1@sea.gmane.org> <20040513092623.A7207@hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro>
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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 :-).
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