Today I reinstalled Windows

[Stephen]

Michael Haney wrote:
> a monopoly and force manufacturers to start offering alternatives or
> face fines for participating in said monopoly.  As for Windows itself,
> I have to use it on my laptop because Wine doesn't support all of my
> games yet.  If it did I'd chunk Vista into File 13 and forget it ever
> existed.  I may upgrade to Windows 7 because its not as slow as Vista.
>
> Games are the golden ticket to dominance in the Home PC market.  The
> platform with the most games will have the most control.  Right now
> Windows owns that golden ticket.  Linux developers been to get on the
> ball, they need to start brainstorming those innovations which will
> make game development for Linux attractive to mainstream game
> developers and to encourage new developers to build games for Linux
> which rival anything current available for Windows.
>
> Most of all, what Linux needs is a "killer app" game which everyone is
> going to want to play, but they can only play it on Linux because it
> won't be made available on Windows.
>
>   
> I agree with the part where the government needs to declare Micro$oft
It's been my experience that all of the heavy graphics games I have 
would run under wine. Only if linux would have graphic accelerators that 
worked.

The problem isn't the games it is the hardware drivers.

I had to use closed source drivers and they never seem to work properly.

Stephen.

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