Yikes! I wish this
wasn't so true...
I wonder if maybe the problem could be server or bandwidth
related and not the software driving SD?? It's been like this for months now... wasn't
always.
I agree that it is crazy, but The Sims has been on the top 10 selling games list, if not the top slot (When D2 or Max Payne wasn't : ), since it came out... what, almost 2 years ago?
Bundling the most user friendly "desktop" distro with one of the best selling games of all time can't be a bad thing. Furthermore, allowing me (even the possibility of one day, in the not too distance future) to able to play all my games, do the occasion office task, and check email/surf makes... me warm and fuzzy.
I love linux and the whole concept (http://www.kmfms.com/), but until it can do gaming to even a comparable level as WinDoze, I'm stuck with multi-boot.
Another example of this... Even now, with XP lumbering out of the gates, I still only use XP(Win2k) occasionally because Win98 still plays _all_ my games faster and more reliably. Sure, I love being able to End Task in XP if a game actually (rarely) does happen to crash, but not everything works in 2K/XP. Dark Age of Camelot is a perfect example... I don't want to use 12.41 when I can use the new DetonatorXP (12.85, for Quake 3) just because 12.8x causes a blue screen on exit of DAoC.
Please, please give me a linux desktop (distro)that isn't butt slower than XP/98 on the desktop for surfing, mp3s, multitasking... then add a DirectX layer / wine emulation for mainstream gaming... and I can finally go to one OS. Hell, I can use VMware for any other tasks that require, and are suitable for doing so, on a XP virtual machine!
Peace
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Yikes! I wish this wasn't so true... I wonder if maybe the problem could be server or bandwidth related and not the software driving SD?? It's been like this for months now... wasn't always.
I agree that it is crazy, but The Sims has been on the top 10 selling games list, if not the top slot (When D2 or Max Payne wasn't : ), since it came out... what, almost 2 years ago? Bundling the most user friendly "desktop" distro with one of the best selling games of all time can't be a bad thing. Furthermore, allowing me (even the possibility of one day, in the not too distance future) to able to play all my games, do the occasion office task, and check email/surf makes... me warm and fuzzy. I love linux and the whole concept (http://www.kmfms.com/), but until it can do gaming to even a comparable level as WinDoze, I'm stuck with multi-boot. Another example of this... Even now, with XP lumbering out of the gates, I still only use XP(Win2k) occasionally because Win98 still plays _all_ my games faster and more reliably. Sure, I love being able to End Task in XP if a game actually (rarely) does happen to crash, but not everything works in 2K/XP. Dark Age of Camelot is a perfect example... I don't want to use 12.41 when I can use the new DetonatorXP (12.85, for Quake 3) just because 12.8x causes a blue screen on exit of DAoC. Please, please give me a linux desktop (distro)that isn't butt slower than XP/98 on the desktop for surfing, mp3s, multitasking... then add a DirectX layer / wine emulation for mainstream gaming... and I can finally go to one OS. Hell, I can use VMware for any other tasks that require, and are suitable for doing so, on a XP virtual machine! Peace