The geeks do use GUIs, for some applications. Because of that, these applications are in pretty good shape: xmms|bmp, firefox|konqueror, thunderbird|evolution, gimp whatever.
But for most of the other things, I personally prefer CLI because it is much faster. This is about speed after all.
I cannot imagine what I would do without smbmount, mplayer, perl!!!,ssh etc.
In conclusion I am one of the guys who cannot see why geeks migrate to OSX because of better GUI.
"Nothing new" is not equal to clone,
it means "not creative".
To answer your question:
Yes I did play all GTAs but 3.
Now let's look at the GTA Vice City. If you played GTA 2 for example, you should know that there is nothing new in GTA 3*. Don't tell me becoming 3d, better radio support, more details etc because these are not original ideas. Even a child can come up with more of those, because the direction is obviously imitation of reality, better say virtual reality.
In GTA 10, there will be toilets, finger cutting, better bleeding, masturbation, super realistic real-time rendering, going to school, doing homework.
Game design should be something more than taking a ganster movie and implementing it.
To clarify some point, I don't think GTA VC is neither bad nor cheap. Sure, there was a great effort behind it probably much more than GTA 2.
More importantly the detail level implemented raised quality expectations of the consumer.
But one should also admit, GTA VC(or 3) won't be anything remembered after ten years, because it is neither first nor the last of it's kind.
If so, why the hell new generations don't play Bomber Man, Lost Vikings, Prince of Persia, Larry 1, The Incredible Machine, Lotus, etc?
Clearly, there is a reason of this polishing trend. I don't think this is good but it is what people want.
Look at GTA for example, it doesn't have anything new but still it is one of the most popular games.
On the other hand, maybe lack of new ideas is related with increasing cost of producing a new game (number of designers, programmers etc). Publishers don't want to risk their money with completely new ideas.
Many things are wonderful and easy in Linux, but installing hardware and software is 50 times as difficult in Linux as it is in Windows.
I assume you never used Debian or any other distribution with a good package management software. I used Windows for years, and there is no way software installation is close to Debian, even for upgrading windows components like Windows Media Player or IE.
About the hardware installation, for most of the avarage hardware, there is no need for a driver installation in Linux. For the rest, I don't think the fact that hardware companies doesn't provide a driver is Linux' fault. Fortunately this is already changing.
Not that I am saying Linux is perfect, or even better than Windows for avarage user, but administration is clearly superior in many ways if not all.
I believe it is sarge/sid mix where sarge is the default release. Of course this is based on apt configuration (sources list etc). In terms of actually installed packages it is difficult to say because there may be many non-standard packages.
--- If knowledge is power, then what is a nuclear bomb? ---
Money, allocation of resources? My university being one of the most expensive universities (in terms of tution) doesn't even have a news (usenet) service because they decided that it was too costly. (I do pay $100+ for two semesters for connection, like all other students and faculty).
Many of my friends were threaten because of their upload rates or running servers or even for setting up a wireless router.
Fedora seems like a good option to me, the way it resembles Debian. On the other hand why don't you try Knoppix/Debian, I never had any problem installing Knoppix to a new computer. At the end you get the real power of Debian which is apt.
Slashdot Mirror
I now see that we desperately need meta-moderation.
Great... Whoever has more developpers can easily control X.Org. Donno if this is good or bad, but at least it won't be company oriented after all.
My people used this to cool water for centuries. I am glad they didn't give Nobel price yet.
But for most of the other things, I personally prefer CLI because it is much faster. This is about speed after all. I cannot imagine what I would do without smbmount, mplayer, perl!!!,ssh etc.
In conclusion I am one of the guys who cannot see why geeks migrate to OSX because of better GUI.
(Hence, the original poster also has a point.)
To answer your question: Yes I did play all GTAs but 3. Now let's look at the GTA Vice City. If you played GTA 2 for example, you should know that there is nothing new in GTA 3*. Don't tell me becoming 3d, better radio support, more details etc because these are not original ideas. Even a child can come up with more of those, because the direction is obviously imitation of reality, better say virtual reality.
In GTA 10, there will be toilets, finger cutting, better bleeding, masturbation, super realistic real-time rendering, going to school, doing homework.
Game design should be something more than taking a ganster movie and implementing it.
To clarify some point, I don't think GTA VC is neither bad nor cheap. Sure, there was a great effort behind it probably much more than GTA 2. More importantly the detail level implemented raised quality expectations of the consumer.
But one should also admit, GTA VC(or 3) won't be anything remembered after ten years, because it is neither first nor the last of it's kind.
Clearly, there is a reason of this polishing trend. I don't think this is good but it is what people want.
Look at GTA for example, it doesn't have anything new but still it is one of the most popular games.
On the other hand, maybe lack of new ideas is related with increasing cost of producing a new game (number of designers, programmers etc). Publishers don't want to risk their money with completely new ideas.
I assume you never used Debian or any other distribution with a good package management software. I used Windows for years, and there is no way software installation is close to Debian, even for upgrading windows components like Windows Media Player or IE.
About the hardware installation, for most of the avarage hardware, there is no need for a driver installation in Linux. For the rest, I don't think the fact that hardware companies doesn't provide a driver is Linux' fault. Fortunately this is already changing.
Not that I am saying Linux is perfect, or even better than Windows for avarage user, but administration is clearly superior in many ways if not all.
--- If knowledge is power, then what is a nuclear bomb? ---
Why is that?
One of my PCs has Knoppix installed for more than 7 months now, I never had any problem with upgrade or dist-upgrade other than KDE.
Actually the configuration on that desktop is very similar to my Debian/Testing installed laptop thanks to apt-get dist-upgrade.
As you said, it is still Debian, which make it rule.
So which one is embedded, cpu or midi keyboard?
when I was an undergrad, I remember having difficulties understanding these concepts. I wonder what happenned to good old 8-bit microcontrollers.
A keyboard which is much more powerfull then all my PCs... God help us.
Many of my friends were threaten because of their upload rates or running servers or even for setting up a wireless router.
hint: this university ends with TON.
Fedora seems like a good option to me, the way it resembles Debian.
On the other hand why don't you try Knoppix/Debian, I never had any problem installing Knoppix to a new computer. At the end you get the real power of Debian which is apt.