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Article #75498Re: skipping levels
From: Dan C
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:11
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:11
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:47:14 +0000, EvilBill wrote: >> For the record, I play Diablo II (with the CDs I bought for Windows) under >> Linux with Wine (not WineX), which is freely available. Any non-3D game >> has a fair chance of being supported by Wine. > That's cool :) I play a lot of games both 3D and otherwise, it's nice to > know that at least some of them can be made to run on Linux. Many, many (nearly all) will run either natively, or via Wine/Cedega. >> But that's only _commercial_ strategy of game makers. If you don't want to >> use Linux because you don't have your favorite games ported, that's fine. >> But blame the game makers, NOT the OS, for God's sake! > I'm not blaming the OS at all. Just outlining the main reason why most > people are still stuck with Windows. ;) Gaming is not the "main reason". It is for some, but the real reason is that most Windows-droids either have never heard of Linux, or find it "too hard". In reality, it's not harder, just different. Once some of that is understood, there's no comparison. Almost never will you see a Linux user decide to go back to Windows. -- If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space. Linux Registered User #327951
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!p01!dukeread09.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Dan C <youmustbejoking@invalid.lan> Organization: Dunedain Subject: Re: skipping levels User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Message-ID: <pan.2005.11.30.21.11.34.326012@invalid.lan> Newsgroups: alt.games.quake References: <Xns971ACBD64FBrichd40earthlinknet@207.217.125.201> <Xns9719EC284E45Fduckrulestheuniverse@news.easynews.com> <Xns971A64AB1602richd40earthlinknet@207.217.125.201> <pan.2005.11.26.22.54.48.920672@invalid.lan> <dmep36$gke$1@localhost.localdomain> <Xns971C70DACE01Dduckrulestheuniverse@news.easynews.com> <pan.2005.11.28.20.05.00.920261@invalid.lan> <Xns971C7EF767CB6duckrulestheuniverse@news.easynews.com> <dmfqmf$73l$1@localhost.localdomain> <dmg3vn$lpq$1@domitilla.aioe.org> <dmhd3d$o1n$1@localhost.localdomain> <dmjhtp$pii$1@domitilla.aioe.org> X-OS-Version: Slackware Linux 10.2 (2.6.13.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 28 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:11:34 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.187.36.214 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: dukeread09 1133385201 70.187.36.214 (Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:13:21 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:13:21 EST Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit