Linux Has Better Windows Compatibility Than Vista

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."

Comments

Re:Everyone keeps saying...

[Brian Gordon]

Try to beat the pitch drop experiment compiling openoffice on a 5 watt draw.

Re:hardly a good test

[Macthorpe]

Oh I'm sorry. Please do tell me how to have an argument without responding to your words. Beautifully trolled sir! He asks you not to pick on specific words in his argument but to respond to the overall point, and you dismiss it by picking on the specific word "words"!

You are trying to troll, right? Because I honestly think you lost the serious discussion about 2 posts back.

Re:hardly a good test

[leomekenkamp]

Please stick to argumentation and stop picking on words.

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Oh I'm sorry. Please do tell me how to have an argument without responding to your words.

I asked you (note: I did not TELL you) to keep it civilized and not go into *single* words. Please don't tell me that did not get that? You don't see me going 'no, you're not sorry at all' at your previous line, do you? I seems to me that you are going into a metadiscussion because your arguments (as far you have any) have no merit.

I'm sorry but doing that requires words, and you've asked me not to do that.

I take it that you choose this road in order to claim some sort of victory for yourself. This to me is equivalent to putting fingers in ones ears and screaming 'I cannot hear you, I cannot hear you'. Quite sad, again.

Bottom line: You have no right whatsoever to shout someone else down then complain when someone does the same back to you.

I did not shout someone down. I used arguments to point something out. I did not complain, I stated quite clearly before that I asked for arguments. You on the other hand are doing something completely different: ignoring my arguments or trying to belittle them by pulling them out of context while not offering any valid argumentation yourself. So, you are not doing the same as I am. You see? I make a statement and use valid arguments, you simply make a statement. I try to understand your reasoning, you try to take me out on single words.

I stand by what I said.

Which is sadly not very much, except for name calling.

Your comment is just as likely to cause angry responses as the article since you're suggesting that the article isn't fit to be posted and should be censored. Refusing to acknowledge that doesn't mean you're trolling any less.

Stop stating I said something which I clearly did not. I used slashdot lingua franca to state TFA is flamebait and not newsworthy. Your claims I called for censoring are silly and without any merit. Why do you keen on doing that? Saying that something is not newsworthy and flamebait is NOT, I repeat NOT a call for censorship. I refuse to acknowledge what you say because it simple is not true. I will repeat it once more: I did not call for censorship. . Stop stating that I did that. And yes, the article was IMNSHO not fit to be posted, but I used arguments to back that up. If someone gets angry about that, it does not mean that my response was flamebait.