** Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-18 13:37]: > On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 12:54 +0000, Gavin Ford wrote: > > The number one killer-app that I find stops people moving to Linux is games. > > Maybe some people, but not all. My wife, niece and brother all use Linux > on their main computer. None of them are interested in games. They all > use the pretty standard apps you get on any desktop.
Same here, no interest in games at all on PCs, although my wife has just got hooked on Frozen Bubble :) > > Windows is for gamers, because games are for Windows. > > I know a few people who dual boot Windows and Linux. Only using Windows > for gaming. Seems ideal. I actually gave up on PC games shortly after they started moving from DOS to Windows, although I wasn't a big DOS gamer either. I moved through the old 'micro' computers up to the Amiga, and when DOS/Windows started fouling the ease of gaming up realised that consoles were no longer the crippled computers they used to be. Windows was crippling computers, so consoles became useful :) > > I don't play computer > > games much so I don't have a Windows machine. All my gaming is covered by > > Gnome Mahjongg and ScummVM. > > Heh. My games are fulfilled by emulators such as xfuse (spectrum) and > mame (arcade) :) Yay for retro ;) ** end quote [Alan Pope] -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ====================================================================== Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
