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Anyone else get the feeling Fansubs are an evil plan of hardrive manfactures?
TMRNetShark:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 08, 2011, 02:41:06 AM ---
--- Quote from: Burkingam on February 08, 2011, 02:31:05 AM ---The Linux Community is waiting for you.
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Then Linux community better start giving some incentive to the game developing community, as wine/cedega is still crap and any sane gamer would never go over to any OS that doesn't run games.
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That's the one thing I don't like about it. No games means... well just that. I mean, I don't get it.. it's FREE. Why wouldn't most of the world get this concept and switch over and force gaming companies to make games for Linux.
AceHigh:
Because Microsoft did one thing right back in 1995. They released the first DirectX. Although some companies made games intended to push forward OpenGL as a standard for the gaming community (as for example Id software did with Quake 2), most other developers happily accepted DirectX and thus gave Windows the almost monopoly as a gaming OS it has today.
However there is another issue. Have you seen how Mac is advertised as more "stable" platform? Well, no shit, it is easy when OS is locked to a specific hardware. It's more difficult for Windows that needs to be compatible with tons of hardware and even more difficult for game developing companies that need to make their game compatible to current OS, a possible future OS and preferably a few older ones that people still use... and all that with combination of shitload of hardware out there.
What is my point? Well, there are hundreds of Linux releases out there. Do you expect the developers to take into account not only hardware, but every single distro out there? It's not reasonable to expect that developers will commit resources to make that many patches.
Linux biggest strength is also it's biggest weakness. It's free, so the developers of Linux distros don't have any financial incentive to try keeping their OS backwards compatible or otherwise support game developers. For game developers that is a potentially bad business.
I don't see how any devs who want to make money will go from Windows to Linux.
Burkingam:
--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on February 08, 2011, 02:48:14 AM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 08, 2011, 02:41:06 AM ---
--- Quote from: Burkingam on February 08, 2011, 02:31:05 AM ---The Linux Community is waiting for you.
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Then Linux community better start giving some incentive to the game developing community, as wine/cedega is still crap and any sane gamer would never go over to any OS that doesn't run games.
--- End quote ---
That's the one thing I don't like about it. No games means... well just that. I mean, I don't get it.. it's FREE. Why wouldn't most of the world get this concept and switch over and force gaming companies to make games for Linux.
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Sadly, most of the world don't know or care about Linux. Fortunately for me, I like indie games. There is quite a few little gems in that category compatible with linux. But if you like showy games with nice graphic and all I understand how it can be a problem on Linux.
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 08, 2011, 03:25:09 AM ---What is my point? Well, there are hundreds of Linux releases out there. Do you expect the developers to take into account not only hardware, but every single distro out there? It's not reasonable to expect that developers will commit resources to make that many patches.
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Developers don't have to make drivers compatible with Linux. They just have to release enough spec about it so that the community can make it's own driver. Unfortunately, not all hardware companies give this kind of information which is why there are sometime problems with the drivers. It is usually possible to make something somewhat functional through retroengineering but it is a lot easier if can skip the step. Retroengineering takes time and is inefficient.
To some things up there is three policies companies can adopt with linux.
1. Develop their on drivers.
assure compatibility but expensive.
2. Release specs
if the hardware is know, we should have good open source drivers within a few weeks or a few month. extremely inexpensive and cost effective.
3. Ignore the problem
The drivers will take longer to develop and will usually be buggy and unstable. The company is loosing costumers.
For what I care, both 1 and 2 are fine. Only 3 is a problem.
Xiong Chiamiov:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 07, 2011, 07:12:42 PM ---First of all, there is always an option to delete anime to free up space.
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You can... delete anime?
Pentium100:
--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on February 08, 2011, 02:07:12 AM ---The day Microsoft puts any form or DRM that's REQUIRED to be on my computer... is the day I go to Linux.
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IIRC Windows Vidta/7 have some kind of DRM that "protects" bluray or something.
--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on February 08, 2011, 02:48:14 AM ---That's the one thing I don't like about it. No games means... well just that. I mean, I don't get it.. it's FREE. Why wouldn't most of the world get this concept and switch over and force gaming companies to make games for Linux.
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Well, "switch" means that the person is using Windows currently. Maybe he got it with the PC, bought it separately or pirated it. Switching to Linux is deleting an operating system that has games and installing an operating system that does not have games (Windows and Linux are pretty similar in other areas) hoping that maybe, some day, the game companies will start making games work on it. Or you can just play current games on Windows right now.
Even for someone who is buying his first PC, Windows is still a better choice if he wants gaming. After all, some games now are better than games maybe later.
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