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What Linux Distribution is the Best for Games?
CodeGeekGuy asks: "I've been thinking of doing the big switcheroo from Windows to Linux. I have, in the past, had various levels of success using Linux, but I generally have to give up as soon as I feel like playing a game. I've done dual booting before, but find it a pain if you're waiting for something to finish and just want a quick game of Half Life 2 or WoW.
I'm willing to give this another shot (as I hear that Cedega plays HL2 and WoW quite nicely). I've used Mandrake and Fedora Core and even Redhat, is there another distribution out there that is the best distro to use to get Cedega (and ultimately games) to work well? "
Yes, God, thank you for your input.
"God of Rock, thank you for this chance to kick ass. "
But, you do have a point in that using them doesn't push devs to develope cross-platform. But, neither does the small market share making noise.
But he doesn't. It's a bad argument, and it always was.
So, since Win95 is backwards-compatible with Win 3.1 then why would anyone write a Win95 application? Since Windows XP is backwards-compatible with Win95, why would anyone write a Win XP application?
The problem is not that compatibility takes away incentive. The problem is that there is no incentive to begin with: You must first have a better platform to migrate to. And Linux is not yet a better platform for writing games than Windows is.