| 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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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.