Indeed, I certainly would never have just traipsed passed there of an evening and bumped into the poll. Not that I don't like Sierra games on the contrary I do, but I had just resigned myself to them not caring about what I wanted (oh what a terrible M$ legacy;) )
It is great that they want a poll at all but I am even more impressed that they decided to ask the right question. After all if they did not want to know how well their games would be received on Linux they didn't HAVE to put it down as one of the options!
I think it is more interesting to note that the Mac is getting the next best following. Perhaps if you asked them if they would prefer games on the Mac or games for Linux ON A Mac instead the results would be different:)
I had to ask this question myself a few month back when I had a hell of a time finding a decent motherboard to go into my full size server chassis. This chassis is a beutiful piece of work (TWR-800) with acres of room to put pretty much anything into it, a neat little keycard security system and status lights for power, tapes, disks and hardware faults etc. My only problem was finding a motherbord that would utilise the space properly. Don't be mistaken this chassis can take afull size AT board with ease and with up to 15 expansion slots not including half a dozen serial and parallel connectors, this is a really nice server case. But more mobo manufacturers are going baby-AT or ATX which meant I could not find one for this chassis. The trouble with the ATX spec is it assumes too much, and because of that it limits is usage to dinky little MIDI sized cases for the average user. For a long time the only thing that came close was some sort of passive backplane / SBC combination that I was thinking of getting from Digital based around a full AT sized board. Needless to say the power connectors on them were _not_ ATX but AT;) . But price and obselesance stoppped that idea and I still have a decent server chassis with a good but small Mobo in it, which really seems a bit of a waste. *sigh*
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Indeed, I certainly would never have just traipsed passed there of an evening and bumped into the poll. Not that I don't like Sierra games on the contrary I do, but I had just resigned myself to them not caring about what I wanted (oh what a terrible M$ legacy ;) )
It is great that they want a poll at all but I am even more impressed that they decided to ask the right question. After all if they did not want to know how well their games would be received on Linux they didn't HAVE to put it down as one of the options!
I think it is more interesting to note that the Mac is getting the next best following. Perhaps if you asked them if they would prefer games on the Mac or games for Linux ON A Mac instead the results would be different :)
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I had to ask this question myself a few month back when I had a hell of a time finding a decent motherboard to go into my full size server chassis. This chassis is a beutiful piece of work (TWR-800) with acres of room to put pretty much anything into it, a neat little keycard security system and status lights for power, tapes, disks and hardware faults etc. My only problem was finding a motherbord that would utilise the space properly. Don't be mistaken this chassis can take afull size AT board with ease and with up to 15 expansion slots not including half a dozen serial and parallel connectors, this is a really nice server case. But more mobo manufacturers are going baby-AT or ATX which meant I could not find one for this chassis. ;) . But price and obselesance stoppped that idea and I still have a decent server chassis with a good but small Mobo in it, which really seems a bit of a waste. *sigh*
The trouble with the ATX spec is it assumes too much, and because of that it limits is usage to dinky little MIDI sized cases for the average user.
For a long time the only thing that came close was some sort of passive backplane / SBC combination that I was thinking of getting from Digital based around a full AT sized board. Needless to say the power connectors on them were _not_ ATX but AT