Re: Linux' future at the desktop

From: Liam Slider (liam_at_NOSPAM.liamslider.com)
Date: 11/10/03 

Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 19:20:43 -0600

baskitcaise wrote:
<snip>
>
> And with wine you can run stuff like H/L, C/S, SOF2 and quite a few others the
> only prob there is that as dx support has to be hacked it will always be
> behind the latest games.
>
>

Yeah but often you have to wait for years for a non-wine Linux port, or
never get one... Wine tends to get popular games ported (yes they are
ports, wine is not an emulator. It's really nothing more than a lib)
over more quickly. As a last resort it works. Of course my preference is
to buy non-Windows version games so that it doesn't register as a
Windows sale. When I buy games at all that is. 

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