Support for Linux has been asked for several hundred times by now. The company does not want to port it for whatever reason. (they have issues statements as to why a few times...all vague) However taking the stance that I won't buy their product just so they know I want it on linux isn't going to accomplish a damned thing for me. The bottom line is that Most games are made for the windows platform. It's the only reason there is a windows box in my house. My other two boxes, including my wife's are either Mac OSX or Linux distros.
Be that as it may, some of the posters here are right, Linux takes work and anyone who has been doing it for a while knows this. Certainly more work to use than a windows machine. Despite the reasons behind that being the case, it is still the case. And yes, all of you nix nuts are the main reason why so many newbies don't even try. Because flames and calls of idiocy are all newbies hear. Why deal with that?
P.S. Did you seriously reference MMO's with being anti-social? And then you went on to reference a +8 stat? O_O Dude.....when was the last time you even SAW an MMO? Ultima online? AS far as I know...MMO's involve people from all over.....and umm yeah...talking to them over vent and such to get stuff done and socialize. Hell, I have met three RL friends through wow who live in my city and quite a few others who live in places ranging from Canada to UK. I visit them as often as my money allows and engage in 'social' activities with them. Seriously, try to keep up with the times. I don't exactly see what is so social about playing 4 minute rounds online through Xbox live or sitting alone at your piano playing it. Diversions are diversions. I use the tools necessary to have my diversions. Linux is not one of them.
Yes I could use Wine, sometimes I do when I don't feel like messing around with the win box at home, but most of the time, my gaming rig is my tool of choice for gaming. I will continue to ask them to port to linux, as I always do, but I am sure it will continue to be ignored until ONE of the distros becomes 'mainstream'.
Must have been another life, in a galaxy far far away. 5 to 7 years ago I would have said 'Yep you are right' However today, so many of the things I do require little non-gui interaction to happen. I still have some non-gui things that need to get done, but very VERY few compared to 6 years ago. (In tech time 6 years = 6 million years? Sure feels that way.) If I want to really geek out then yeah I can go do some stuff old school. The only time I really have to go to a command line these days is whenever I putz around in my cisco switches. Or whenever I want to run a talker/listener list from my gateway to spy on my user's activities. Even that though is going to be GUI replaced soon though. We recently found a really neat GUI based software that lets us do that. Complete with green light and red light icons!!!
Sysadmins are creatures that follow the money trail friend. If the company wants a Win based platform as their workhorse, then the sysadmins are getting certs on that platform. Why on earth would you go through the trouble of learning Linux if what you need is a cert on Win2003 server administration? That sounds like you are setting yourself up for either getting fired for being a complete chuckle head who doesn't know his company's O/S of choice well enough to be able to audit logs or getting passed over on a potential raise or promotion because you couldn't take the time to learn the GD O/S that your company uses and HIRED you to learn and administer for them. Knowing linux commands is definitely a good thing to know, however, for a Windows sysadmin, it is NOT mission critical.
Right now, getting certs on anything non windows related if you are a sysadmin at a company that uses windows is a hobby. Until you get paid for what you know, it is just a hobby. Me? I hate windows and Vista especially. BUT I get paid to administer it so I do what needs to be done to do that well. That includes renewing certs, researching the myriad exploits that are out there everyday, and dealing with crap ware from Redmond. My linux know how is, for the moment, just for my home use and pleasure. Maybe one day I will run into a company or organization that uses a unix based system instead of a doze based system.
EDIT: What I have tried in the past is to approach my CIO with the idea that we could use linux for certain things or resources and each time he doesn't want to hear it. So this forces me to learn what they want me to learn. BECAUSE of that, Linux is just a hobby....for now.
You and others like your are the main reason people around the world have such a distaste for we Americans. Why don't you start thinking with your head and let go of that patriotic propaganda that seems to be clouding your perceptions of the real world? why don't you take a good, long look at what it means to givethe federal government these types of powers? Why don't you open your eyes , or better yet , read 1984? Big Brother, in the US, is practically a reality because of fascists like you who seem to be content to give up their rights to the government.
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Support for Linux has been asked for several hundred times by now. The company does not want to port it for whatever reason. (they have issues statements as to why a few times...all vague) However taking the stance that I won't buy their product just so they know I want it on linux isn't going to accomplish a damned thing for me. The bottom line is that Most games are made for the windows platform. It's the only reason there is a windows box in my house. My other two boxes, including my wife's are either Mac OSX or Linux distros. Be that as it may, some of the posters here are right, Linux takes work and anyone who has been doing it for a while knows this. Certainly more work to use than a windows machine. Despite the reasons behind that being the case, it is still the case. And yes, all of you nix nuts are the main reason why so many newbies don't even try. Because flames and calls of idiocy are all newbies hear. Why deal with that? P.S. Did you seriously reference MMO's with being anti-social? And then you went on to reference a +8 stat? O_O Dude.....when was the last time you even SAW an MMO? Ultima online? AS far as I know...MMO's involve people from all over.....and umm yeah...talking to them over vent and such to get stuff done and socialize. Hell, I have met three RL friends through wow who live in my city and quite a few others who live in places ranging from Canada to UK. I visit them as often as my money allows and engage in 'social' activities with them. Seriously, try to keep up with the times. I don't exactly see what is so social about playing 4 minute rounds online through Xbox live or sitting alone at your piano playing it. Diversions are diversions. I use the tools necessary to have my diversions. Linux is not one of them. Yes I could use Wine, sometimes I do when I don't feel like messing around with the win box at home, but most of the time, my gaming rig is my tool of choice for gaming. I will continue to ask them to port to linux, as I always do, but I am sure it will continue to be ignored until ONE of the distros becomes 'mainstream'.
Must have been another life, in a galaxy far far away. 5 to 7 years ago I would have said 'Yep you are right' However today, so many of the things I do require little non-gui interaction to happen. I still have some non-gui things that need to get done, but very VERY few compared to 6 years ago. (In tech time 6 years = 6 million years? Sure feels that way.) If I want to really geek out then yeah I can go do some stuff old school. The only time I really have to go to a command line these days is whenever I putz around in my cisco switches. Or whenever I want to run a talker/listener list from my gateway to spy on my user's activities. Even that though is going to be GUI replaced soon though. We recently found a really neat GUI based software that lets us do that. Complete with green light and red light icons!!!
Let me know when WoW comes to The Xbox 360 Mmkay?
Sysadmins are creatures that follow the money trail friend. If the company wants a Win based platform as their workhorse, then the sysadmins are getting certs on that platform. Why on earth would you go through the trouble of learning Linux if what you need is a cert on Win2003 server administration? That sounds like you are setting yourself up for either getting fired for being a complete chuckle head who doesn't know his company's O/S of choice well enough to be able to audit logs or getting passed over on a potential raise or promotion because you couldn't take the time to learn the GD O/S that your company uses and HIRED you to learn and administer for them. Knowing linux commands is definitely a good thing to know, however, for a Windows sysadmin, it is NOT mission critical.
Right now, getting certs on anything non windows related if you are a sysadmin at a company that uses windows is a hobby. Until you get paid for what you know, it is just a hobby. Me? I hate windows and Vista especially. BUT I get paid to administer it so I do what needs to be done to do that well. That includes renewing certs, researching the myriad exploits that are out there everyday, and dealing with crap ware from Redmond. My linux know how is, for the moment, just for my home use and pleasure. Maybe one day I will run into a company or organization that uses a unix based system instead of a doze based system.
EDIT: What I have tried in the past is to approach my CIO with the idea that we could use linux for certain things or resources and each time he doesn't want to hear it. So this forces me to learn what they want me to learn. BECAUSE of that, Linux is just a hobby....for now.
You and others like your are the main reason people around the world have such a distaste for we Americans. Why don't you start thinking with your head and let go of that patriotic propaganda that seems to be clouding your perceptions of the real world? why don't you take a good, long look at what it means to givethe federal government these types of powers? Why don't you open your eyes , or better yet , read 1984? Big Brother, in the US, is practically a reality because of fascists like you who seem to be content to give up their rights to the government.