No licence, no Windows updates

[snooker]

Originally posted by: tss4

Originally posted by: snooker

Originally posted by: tss4

Originally posted by: snooker

Originally posted by: tss4




Unix doesn't run all your favorite video games. Nuff said.

Apparenty you do not know too much about Linux/ Unix

I can easily run any given Windows Based game on my Linux Machine. You just have to be smarter then the software

You can't run them all.

I have yet to find one I couldn't get working. I am not saying I have played every game ever made for windows on a linux box, but every one I have tried, once I get all settings etc sorted out, it WILL run. Like I said, you have to be smarter then the software

ok, perhaps. But do you think the average person would fork over the money for operating system or become competent enough in linux to work through getting each game to run on thier box? Sure the power users might, but not the other 99% of the population.

True True. I keep forgetting I have been toying with Windows and Linux and cross compatability for quite a few years now. I do remember when I got my first windows program to run on a Linux box, it was time consuming not to mention frustrating because I didn't know anything at that time and it didn't work right away. If I wasn't so patient maybe I would have given up right away, like most 'normal' PC users.

 

[alchemize]

Question:

So how will M$ ever know if everyone starts using one of the gajillions of "corporate" keys out there? Like the one on this very workstation?


hmmm

 

[HalosPuma]

Originally posted by: snooker
True True. I keep forgetting I have been toying with Windows and Linux and cross compatability for quite a few years now. I do remember when I got my first windows program to run on a Linux box, it was time consuming not to mention frustrating because I didn't know anything at that time and it didn't work right away. If I wasn't so patient maybe I would have given up right away, like most 'normal' PC users.

99% of the people who own computers are like 99% of the people who own cars. They just want to turn it on / put the key into the ignition and go. Until, if ever, Linux becomes as easy and simple to use as Windows or today's automobile, it will never catch on as a valid desktop.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: HalosPuma

Originally posted by: snooker
True True. I keep forgetting I have been toying with Windows and Linux and cross compatability for quite a few years now. I do remember when I got my first windows program to run on a Linux box, it was time consuming not to mention frustrating because I didn't know anything at that time and it didn't work right away. If I wasn't so patient maybe I would have given up right away, like most 'normal' PC users.

99% of the people who own computers are like 99% of the people who own cars. They just want to turn it on / put the key into the ignition and go. Until, if ever, Linux becomes as easy and simple to use as Windows or today's automobile, it will never catch on as a valid desktop.

yes some of us pc geeks forget the amount of trouble we go through to get stuff working. if you calculate the number of hours reading tech forums/manuals/books on how to setup/use the stuff and trouble shoot, its not hard to see why non techs don't see the point. gotta be simple, like a mac