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Linux Has Better Windows Compatibility Than Vista

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the wine-keeps-getting-better-with-age dept.

Several readers have written to tell us about one users rant in which he tells the story of being so frustrated with gaming on Windows Vista that he tried comparing gaming on Vista to that on Linux using Wine, with surprising results. "This post is clearly a bit biased. What shocked me though was how easy it was to find games that didn't run under Vista but did in Linux by using Wine or DOSBox. I'm not a huge gamer, so I don't have a huge collection of games to try out, but even still with just a few hours of frustrating work, I have been able to show that not only is Linux a reasonable alternative to Vista for gaming (XP is still king though), but also that Linux handles application failures more gracefully than Vista. Every game but Blackthorne crashed my Vista box, this didn't happen a single time under Linux."

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  1. Woah! by Guppy06 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Every game but Blackthorne"

    You mean Blizzard made a game before World of Warcraft?

  2. Re:Everyone keeps saying... by coke_scp · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you saying linux isn't a religion?

  3. Re:Everyone keeps saying... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Including sound? Holy shit. Next you'll tell me it has video. This thing is ready for prime time.