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Weblog:   To push desktop Linux, radical shift may be required
Subject:   Mainstream desktop Linux
Date:   2003-11-15 16:47:48
From:   anonymous2
I think a good way to give Linux a more mass market must have feel it should be targeted at the core people who drive the hardware market...Gamers. Linux could be such a great pc gaming platform. One thing about being a windows gamer that really needs sorting is stability and the fact that windows actually inhibbits performance of the hardware your using. If there was a viable option other than windows that was cheap and reliable could run all th latest hardware and games, surf the net and entertain in general I would not look back. Where MS have failed (not giving uses flexability and choice) Linux has the potential to compensate. Imagine what would happen if I posted a very impressive bench mark score on a gaming site and I was running the game/demo/benchmark on Linux....a bit of pride and willy waving would do Linux good.
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  • Mainstream desktop Linux
    2003-11-17 13:14:21  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    Correct, but ...

    Games are too expensive to target for a tiny % of the market. Now, if the next fantastic game engine (Doom IV, Unreal v.Whatever, Lithtech v.xxx) was designed from the ground up to be *cross platform*, then we might have a winner, particularly if the game ran faster on Linux and we could show that wasn't just a factor of fudging the other plaforms' code.
    • Mainstream desktop Linux
      2003-11-20 11:27:12  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

      pc gamers in general use there computers for internet, E-mail and general entertainment along with a whole bunch of people who use all of the above and have a quick blast on tetris or what every now and then. The point I think is to make an easy to use but powerfull OS that will satify the one click and its done market and the power hungry must have more people. I am somewhere inbetween. I reckon if Linux were ever to get this balance right there would be no stopping it.
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