Ozymandias

I'd think women would swoon if they knew you could use words like ubiquity in a sentence :)  But seriously, yes, if you want to play games, Windows is where it's at.  I'd even go so far as to say the Windows desktop is a more friendly working environment than Gnome, KDE, or any of the other Linux GUI's.  (I always feel like I'm running Win3.1 when I use a Linux GUI).  You don't mention the Mac, but with the new intel friendly OS and Bootcamp, Mac gamers should also bite the proverbial bullet, because, gaming is better under Windows.  Heck, since Vista pretty much duplicates the UI from OSX, I dont' even see why you'd need a Mac anymore.

For what it's worth:

This article was written by Jim Lynch, our forum moderator, who is a huge proponent of Linux, OpenOffice, etc. He's quite anti-Microsoft, and never misses an opportunity to send an email around when something is going wrong back in corporate office land to proclaim that is must be Microsoft's fault, and Windows is an unstable mess, blah blah blah. He's one of THOSE guys - you know the ones.

He was originally working on an article about how you can play all these games on Linux now with Crossover and Cedega and so on. His experiences made it evolve into the one you see on the site.

It's worth keeping those things in mind when you read the article.

I haven't messed around too much with Parallels yet, but OS X and boot camp XP makes for some easy, no worries gaming.  A C2D iMac can't game like a high end pc but it sure is quick to setup at a LAN party in my opinion.  Commence the flaming.

"(I always feel like I'm running Win3.1 when I use a Linux GUI)."

I actually feel the same. It is not that it looks the same. But the responsiveness and features of it are just behind in times.

An OS can be stable as a rock, but you try playing catch with a rock :)

"Heck, since Vista pretty much duplicates the UI from OSX, I dont' even see why you'd need a Mac anymore."

I actually like Vista's UI more than OSX. OSX feels washed out and a little bit. The glassy/watery look wears out too quickly. Vista's UI while appearing glassy/watery feels more solid. And I like the colour selection a lot more.

It is cool though to see anti-Microsoftians(tm) admitting that every OS has its strengths and that Windows is a better platform for games.

Well, to be honest, I don't really see the point of PC games now anyway. The hardware compatibility issues drive me batty (I never got into WoW because my graphics card wasn't _quite_ good enough... although, in retrospect, I think that turned out to be a blessing). I prefer to stick to the consoles, where I know something is going to work without having to remember if I have the right type of _RAM_. Sheesh.

As for Windows being a better choice than Linux here, well, I gave up on Linux a while ago. I think Linux developers are more interested in making glossy, glamorous, Windows-like apps than in building the less glamorous drivers it so desperately needs. I gave up on Linux when yet-another-window-manager came out (how many are there: 200???) and I still couldn't get my two-year old digital camera to connect to Gimp. Never mind that I've only found one Linux distribution able to recognize the run-of-the mill sound and graphics chips on my old Dell without requiring me to recompile the freakin' kernel.

Bah! Bah, I say!

For play, give me a console. For work, give me Mac OS (although, Apple, if you'd like to ditch the sugar-coated look of Aqua and give us back Platinum, I wouldn't complain... every time I log in, I feel like I've stepped into Willy Wonka's chocolate factory).

I also thought it was immensly humorous when Steve Jobs unvieled the new killer app for the mac "Windows XP"!

Notice how much market share Apple has gained since they

announced windows compatability.

Windows 95 was good but outclassed by the Mac. Windows XP is fantastic.

But OZY... if your going to shill should you say that

XBOX 360 is the ultimate gaming solution:)

Try using Ubuntu, it found everything on my computer first go and it is a really good Linux Distro. It's not any good for games but I have an Xbox 360 for that ;)

When I was setting up my wife's laptop (a few years ago), I tried a few different distros.  We gave it an honest try, but it seemed no matter which one I tried (Knoppix, DSL, Red Hat, Mandrake), there was always something that didn't work quite right.

We finally gave up and installed Windows 2000.  And, everything "just worked".

And sure, some may be getting better, but honestly, there's no compelling reason to switch.  I have a Win2k license, it's running fine, everything works as well as needed; it doesn't even crash after being on for days at a time.

I felt bad about not being able to get Linux working, being a self-respecting computer geek and all, but someone pointed me to an article written by one of the Linux Gurus (I forget exactly who now) and his experience trying to get the CUPS print daemon running.  And that made me feel a little bit better.

Seriously.. If you want to play games, buy xbox or playstation or any other game console you want to play on.

PC lost its spirit for gaming years ago.

Considering the cost of gaming, consoles are the better choice in the long run (no hardware updates necessary to play the latest games for 4 years).

But, as with DVDs, unless there are games you "must have" right after their release, you might want to wait a few months before spending your money. You can save tons buying 6 month old games, and if they have no online play (King Kong, Dead Rising) or if you don't care about online play it really won't matter how old they are if they let you have a good time.

As for the whole Vista vs. Mac OS vs. Linux... everything has its own perks, right?

I use Linux as much as Windows, and completely agree. But I've also seen Linux improve rapidly in many spaces I thought it was stagnating. I don't see games developers favoring the Linux multi-diversity-system anytime soon, but I'm not sure how much longer it will be until they consider it more often.

Like FFS, people seem to like developing for the PS2/3 despite the lack of friendly tools, so apparently all that really matters is market share.

I just linked in from gamedaily to read up on the sony online post but couldn't help but read this linux post as well. All I wanted to say was I really like your posting style and the clever word choices. I will have to visit again soon.

"Giiiive moooney to my companyyyyy!!!"

lol, but I agree with Windows for most-purpose gaming.

...since the hardware industry doesn't support Linux, never releasing proper drivers and all, so game developers can't make proper ports...

I can play all my Steam games and WoW on Linux tho, with free software resulting from the hard, unpaid work of the Linux community. So I don't have this gaming issue that is spoken of here.

Oh, and you can obtain free, "working on fresh install" distributions of Linux from any College, University or cheese factory in your area.

For most other games, you must buy Windows. It is a must. Cuz Pong gets old. Eventually.

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