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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. Re:hardly a good test by martyros · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Even worse:
    • Most of the games he's testing DON'T WORK ON EITHER SYSTEM . It's just that under Vista, a lot of them crash.
    • One that doesn't crash -- Civ 4 -- Microsoft warns that it won't work, then doesnt' work; while Wine just doesn't work. How is that better?
    • The first one he tested was a game that he doesn't even play. WTH? "There's a game that I've heard of that I don't play but it doesn't work on Vista so I'm angry."
    • The second game is some ancient DOS game. It won't play because DOSBox doesn't work on Vista. Maybe you should... wait until they have a version of DOSBox for Vista?
    Honestly, I was expecting a list of games people commonly play these days, not a bunch of randomness. The fact that Vista crashed for him is, of course, bad; but the fact that Wine doesn't play the games but just crashes instead hardly makes Linux a better gaming platform.
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  2. Re:And yet... by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah that's a giant paragraph of solid BS. You are stupid to run untrusted code, and the golden days of spywareless Netscape Navigator don't excuse people's click-Accept-happy fingers today. Mods marked my comment above troll but it's true- you simply don't have vista compatibility problems anymore if you have any idea whatsoever what you're doing.. and that's the SAME that is true for installing malware. Your point about "people who have a life besides computers" is legitimate, but doesn't apply to the slashdot crowd. Mods, set this right.