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Valve confirms Steam and Source coming to Linux this year!
nstgc:
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--- Quote from: AceHigh on June 25, 2012, 07:34:12 PM ---Dude, this is a torrent tracker site and all you could think of as an alternative to a full priced OS is an OEM? Hell that implies that I bought a complete pc instead of building my own. I almost feel insulted.
If I remember correctly, the last time I used a legal version is back in the win 98 era. Even when an OEM comes with a laptop, I still always install Win7 Ultimate on all computers that my family has.
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I have an use a 100% legal copy of Windows. They had a promotional thing for my unversity where they sold Windows 7 Pro for $25 and it cost an estra $15 for a disc.
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I on the other hand got mine without charge, legally :D.
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How? Please, do share (work? MSDN?)!
Path:
The wonders of MSDNAA.
AceHigh:
What matters is that MS thinks I have a fully legal Windows, so I get all updates and all benefits as the legal users. It's indistinguishable from legal version, so I don't see why I shouldn't pirate it. (No moral excuses from me: I do it because I can)
megido-rev.M:
--- Quote from: nstgc on June 27, 2012, 03:11:28 AM ---How? Please, do share (work? MSDN?)!
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--- Quote from: Path on June 27, 2012, 05:24:03 AM ---The wonders of MSDNAA.
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^That: part of my university program. Although, my tuition is so high that I'm essentially be paying for it anyway >_>.
Pagonis:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on June 24, 2012, 03:28:04 PM ---After all OpenGL is in many ways better than DX API.
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Name those many ways, please.
Even a long time OpenGL guru Carmack, who long time ago said "we don't need no stinkin' Direct-X", now admits that "Direct3D is now better than OpenGL".
Also you do realize that Direct-X not only handles rendering like OpenGL, but also sound, input and such?
I think that you're just another Linux zealot.
Speaking of Linux - no one bloody cares, despite 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and now 2012 being "the year of linux on desktop" and Android on a wave, Linux is still a non factor.
As a user, I don't care about Linux.
As a developer, I hate Linux. Such a mess. No consistency. Everything gets deprecated after 2 years. Sound API - non existant. There was OSS, then there was ALSA, then OSS again, now I see some hack called PulseAudio. Low latency audio? JACK sucks.
Three or four years I ported one application to Linux. Half of the users refused to use because of Qt3 dependencies (qq think about my pure GTK desktop), other half - because it wasn't open source. Fine. Enjoy <1% market share.
Nowadays it doesn't even compile. Old binaries run, segfault on several now deprecated functions/libraries. Meanwhile on Windows, over a decade old VB apps run without problems... Yeah, who needs consistency and backwards compatibility and support for more than 2 years? Again, enjoy <1% market share.
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And no, I'm not a Microsoft employee. I'm thinking about buying new MacBook Pro with retina display (well, they say it's better than new iPad, and iPad's screen is simply gorgeous). Also, I have this for my file storage (every computer in the house has only a 80-120 gB SSD for storage, 4 terabytes network drive comes in handy, also accessible from internet in case friend forgot to bring good music)/torrent server/VPN server (only idiots connect to public wifi hotspots and then check their stuff without using VPN):
--- Quote ---[root@AeriePeak ~]# uname -a
FreeBSD AeriePeak 9.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 #2: Tue Sep 13 06:02:58 EEST 2011 root@AeriePeak:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/apkern amd64
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FreeBSD is great. It isn't plagued by stupid GPL ideologists (if it's not GPL, it's not in the tree! altho yes it would benefit us very much <- LOL), they don't hestitate signing NDAs and implementing closed source drivers in the kernel. Also, it's way more organized (I mean when I went from Debian to FreeBSD, suddenly all these /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, etc directories started making sense): they have a Base System...
Peace out, hipster linux boys. :)
edit: a lot of students in my time didn't knew about https://www.dreamspark.com/ - Microsoft's software for free for educational purposes.
edit2: forgot, my main smartphone is Nokia N900 - a real Linux phone (fu android).
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