[BozemanLUG] Interesting times for Linux gaming

[Mike Stone]

I'm not much of a game player myself, but I'm extremely excited to see
this. Games are one of the biggest arguments against widespread Linux
adoption. I mean, honestly, do you think that Linux hasn't gotten a sizable
foothold because Microsoft Office is just so much more amazing than Libre?
If you look at the arguments against Linux, they're falling one by one, and
these days more quickly than ever.

Decent GUI? Check.
Ease of use? Check.
Driver support? Check.
Viable office product? Check.
Feasible graphics manipulation? Check.
Games? Check.

The only thing that Linux really lacks now is a PR department to tell
people that they're wasting a huge amount of money paying Microsoft for a
product that they could get for free just to turn around and buy more
products from Microsoft and other companies that they could also get for
free.

All we need to do now is *show people* what they're missing.

Mike

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:07 AM, David Boreham <david_list at boreham.org>wrote:

> I don't play games, but I think this is a pretty interesting point in
> the history of computing.
>
> Since...oh...say...1979 with Unix V7 on the PDP-11, you've been able to
> buy a reasonably priced bare machine and install software of your choice
> on it, beyond the control of the hardware vendor. Many of us enjoy
> working in an industry where that is still the case, but for how much
> longer?
>
> If the PC becomes a dongle for Windows, where are we going to get cheap
> powerful hardware to run our code?
>
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