(Proprietary) ATI Radeon drivers have actually matured fairly well at this point too. Sure, there's bugs and the occasional (more and more rare) crash, but generally OpenGL and a composite desktop environment work great with those cards too nowadays.
...How does Wine manage to run DirectX (translated to OpenGL) and OpenGL-native apps then? A billion and one workarounds? I can imagine there being SOME workarounds, but not THAT many. I also imagine there is cooperation on the (proprietary) driver devs. Oh, and let's not forget Chrome, which has working hardware acceleration in Linux too.
Support OpenGL anyway. If a driver is faulty, the driver developers will be flooded with the most pressing bugs and then the bugs will be resolved (where possible).
Said Linux software tends to be not of 1.0 quality - ie. not completely ready and expected to have bugs. You'd expect MS's final products to work, though.
OP should be rated funny rather than Insightful anyway, but yeah... This is Slashdot.
How do you know the regular user knows - or cares? In that case, though, I should be saying my argument is based on the same problem anyway - not knowing if "normal" users know about this at all. I sure didn't.
Yeah, but one easily associates Windows with Microsoft, whereas something like App Store isn't specifically associated with Apple, since many devices and systems have their own app store.
If it was Apple Store or something like that, it would be quite different.
I thought Mozilla was going to support H.264 in their FF4.0. So why would Google do the opposite and REMOVE the functionality?
I made a little userscript that more or less depends on Chrome's H.264 support so I can properly watch video on Gametrailers. Guess that deal's off unless I simply don't update Chrome.
That's nice and all, but not the end of it. You are now captain of a heavily armed ship in a world where criminals have cooled down a lot more. The overall need for weapons in the world has died down, so people and other ships may have returned to being more vulnerable. You (or your crew) have already killed people so they're hardened a lot more against killing. Now think of the possibilities...
Okay, so it's a military ship or whatever. Corruption still happens. You'd need to have a good, morally strong (even if they killed) team of people on board for it not to happen here and there.
The WINE project and derivatives is a solution looking for a problem.
Wrong. The problem is obvious and actually relevant. In fact, it can be explained with a single line: Someone, for whatever reason, has an exe file they need to run for whatever reason.
Just because YOU don't have a reason to use it doesn't mean other's don't. Plenty of people do. I enjoy my never-released-on-non-Windows-platforms games very much thanks to Wine. Oh, and the occasional bit of incompatible software that others send me, or that I find and want to try out.
I thought Valve explicitly confirmed that there won't be a Steam for Linux, and that before the news it was just Phoronix speculating there may be one? Or has that news changed now and has Valve started making a Linux port after all?
While Z: is accessible, it is no more writable to Wine as it is to any other application not running as root. That means just your home directory (granted, this can be dangerous) and tmp. But here's the thing: you can easily remove the Z: drive association in winecfg. Heck, there's even an option in the winetricks tool that lets you sandbox Wine like this.
Dumbing it down doesn't affect the fact that you will still have configuration files to mess with. It just means that you would ALSO have the method of editing the configuration files through some graphical interface.
No they won't. Stupid question. Keyboards are so incredibly much easier to type on. Touch screens are slow. It's much too easy to press the wrong button, even with feedback. And it's uncomfortable to have the keyboard on the screen because you usually will want to have the keyboard in a position comfortable to your hands, and the screen in a position comfortable to your head, neck and eyes (ie normal computer style).
Touch keyboards on devices with no actual keyboard are improving, yay for them. But this stuff isn't replacing actual keyboard, which have time and time again proven that they are the most useful and easiest way to get text input onto your screen.
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Excuses. If the browser doesn't crash, you don't need that feature.
Note that I don't normally use Opera, but it certainly hasn't crashed the times I did use it.
(Proprietary) ATI Radeon drivers have actually matured fairly well at this point too. Sure, there's bugs and the occasional (more and more rare) crash, but generally OpenGL and a composite desktop environment work great with those cards too nowadays.
...How does Wine manage to run DirectX (translated to OpenGL) and OpenGL-native apps then? A billion and one workarounds? I can imagine there being SOME workarounds, but not THAT many. I also imagine there is cooperation on the (proprietary) driver devs. Oh, and let's not forget Chrome, which has working hardware acceleration in Linux too.
Support OpenGL anyway. If a driver is faulty, the driver developers will be flooded with the most pressing bugs and then the bugs will be resolved (where possible).
Where can I find this manor?
Just kidding. I'm not a child molester. Honest!
*All* browsers at this point is HTML 4.5 at best. None of them can fully implement HTML5 because the HTML5 spec isn't even finished.
So IE9 is closer to HTML 4.2 then, I'd say. Or something.
You should put it in a chrome frame.
Said Linux software tends to be not of 1.0 quality - ie. not completely ready and expected to have bugs. You'd expect MS's final products to work, though.
OP should be rated funny rather than Insightful anyway, but yeah... This is Slashdot.
People remember what Apple's App Store is called.
How do you know the regular user knows - or cares? In that case, though, I should be saying my argument is based on the same problem anyway - not knowing if "normal" users know about this at all. I sure didn't.
Android, Microsoft, Nokia. They most definitely have app stores. App stores with their own properly trademarkable names.
You see, because of its name, app store has become a term for ANY such "marketplace", not just Apple's.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHH
("Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING." Thanks, Slashdot. I totally didn't know that.)
"My Documents Store", where you buy back from MS what was rightfully yours.
Because making something "new" doesn't have to be important to run a company. Point in case: Apple, who does it by reputation only.
Yeah, but one easily associates Windows with Microsoft, whereas something like App Store isn't specifically associated with Apple, since many devices and systems have their own app store.
If it was Apple Store or something like that, it would be quite different.
I thought Mozilla was going to support H.264 in their FF4.0. So why would Google do the opposite and REMOVE the functionality?
I made a little userscript that more or less depends on Chrome's H.264 support so I can properly watch video on Gametrailers. Guess that deal's off unless I simply don't update Chrome.
The amount of existing pages that don't work with Chrome is approximately equal to the amount of existing pages that don't work with Firefox.
That's nice and all, but not the end of it. You are now captain of a heavily armed ship in a world where criminals have cooled down a lot more. The overall need for weapons in the world has died down, so people and other ships may have returned to being more vulnerable. You (or your crew) have already killed people so they're hardened a lot more against killing. Now think of the possibilities...
Okay, so it's a military ship or whatever. Corruption still happens. You'd need to have a good, morally strong (even if they killed) team of people on board for it not to happen here and there.
That's actually a very funny typo, what are you complaining about?
(And hey, guess what. I'm not English. I'm horrible at the language. See?)
With this, GameTree will finally die out!
The WINE project and derivatives is a solution looking for a problem.
Wrong. The problem is obvious and actually relevant. In fact, it can be explained with a single line:
Someone, for whatever reason, has an exe file they need to run for whatever reason.
Just because YOU don't have a reason to use it doesn't mean other's don't. Plenty of people do. I enjoy my never-released-on-non-Windows-platforms games very much thanks to Wine. Oh, and the occasional bit of incompatible software that others send me, or that I find and want to try out.
That's like saying even Apple recommends OSX, though. But yeah, having a commercial version of Wine with great support is always good.
I thought Valve explicitly confirmed that there won't be a Steam for Linux, and that before the news it was just Phoronix speculating there may be one? Or has that news changed now and has Valve started making a Linux port after all?
While Z: is accessible, it is no more writable to Wine as it is to any other application not running as root. That means just your home directory (granted, this can be dangerous) and tmp. But here's the thing: you can easily remove the Z: drive association in winecfg. Heck, there's even an option in the winetricks tool that lets you sandbox Wine like this.
If software is still in heavy development, that's acceptable. It's good now, isn't it?
Dumbing it down doesn't affect the fact that you will still have configuration files to mess with. It just means that you would ALSO have the method of editing the configuration files through some graphical interface.
No they won't. Stupid question. Keyboards are so incredibly much easier to type on. Touch screens are slow. It's much too easy to press the wrong button, even with feedback. And it's uncomfortable to have the keyboard on the screen because you usually will want to have the keyboard in a position comfortable to your hands, and the screen in a position comfortable to your head, neck and eyes (ie normal computer style).
Touch keyboards on devices with no actual keyboard are improving, yay for them. But this stuff isn't replacing actual keyboard, which have time and time again proven that they are the most useful and easiest way to get text input onto your screen.