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[RudeDawg]

Mr Gates is a brilliant business man (give the devil his due) but his forte is in the propaganda M$ drivels out.

"Linux can't play games, Mac's are crap, if they could run as many things as Windows..."

I guess the Ford Escort and the Honda Civic are better vehicles than BMWs and Lexus, since there are so many more of them on the road.

There are many games that run on Linux, and most of the new games are being written for it. There's a ton of stuff on the Mac. but, M$ has all of you believing that Windoze is the only way to go, and like lemmings, you follow! Like I said earlier, gates deserves all the money you give him.

BTW, it seems that Dreamworks, makers of movies like Shrek (which was completely made on Linux boxes), disagrees with most of you. Thev're switched EVERYTHING to Linux.

And Macs to run the administration end. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

[Thoran]

Originally posted by RudeDawg: Mr Gates is a brilliant business man (give the devil his due) but his forte is in the propaganda M$ drivels out. "Linux can't play games, Mac's are crap, if they could run as many things as Windows..." I guess the Ford Escort and the Honda Civic are better vehicles than BMWs and Lexus, since there are so many more of them on the road. There are many games that run on Linux, and most of the new games are being written for it. There's a ton of stuff on the Mac. but, M$ has all of you believing that Windoze is the only way to go, and like lemmings, you follow! Like I said earlier, gates deserves all the money you give him. BTW, it seems that Dreamworks, makers of movies like Shrek (which was completely made on Linux boxes), disagrees with most of you. Thev're switched EVERYTHING to Linux. And Macs to run the administration end. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

Artist types aren't a good point of reference IMO... they do LOTS of weird stuff .

Linux and Apple are both still in the game, but to play on even footing with Billy is tough with their business models.

Linux will never be mainstream as long as it retains the aura of "geek toy". It needs the heavies to jump in, apply the OS to a commercial product, and stand behind it. Not too many of us are comfortable rebuilding the OS to add support for a new device... sad but true.

Apple shot themselves in the foot so many times it's a wonder they're still in business... but now they've got some VERY cool products, their OS is in catch up mode but it's making progress, and lots of people are looking for an alternative to Wintel. Apple is still pretty much the only game in town. Add to that the fact that the internet has to some extent mitigated the division between Apples and Wintel platforms (both run internet apps just fine) and the Apple I think might soon be making inroads into the mainstream. That's good for us ALL... even those of us who are die hard Microserfs.

[khazadman]

hell,apple could have dominated the market but steve jobs charged too much for his machines.they are better than win machines,but not that much better.and after jobs left they continued to do the same.

[Sir Goulum]

Macs are way better. And how much do you wanna bet that in like 3 years Microsoft will move their manufacturing country to China or Japan where they can have people make them for like $1 a day.

[andrewas]

Linux is catching up as a games platform. With the Xfree86 pproject nearing completion we now have a package equivalent to DirectDraw, and we have MESA to handle the Direct3D part of it. DirectSound stilll has no equivalent and sound on linux is still a joke. More importantly, we dont have a unified network interface like DirectPlay.

M$ got a massive advantage since they have total control over Windows - and they can play with a budget thats bigger than that of some countries. All we need for Linux to match windows is one big developer thats willing to work on it without trying to dominate the OS.