Jean Christophe Andr? ????????: > Nguyen Vu Hung a ?crit : >> I can't. There are some reasons for it: >> 1. I *have* to use Windows at work. >> 2. I play some games that only available under Windows. >> 3. My wife hate Linux and I am so scare of her. >> > Well... Those are all "Good Reasons"?, for sure... ;-) > > 1. In the time Linux was not so popular, we had no choice... But now, > hopefully, it becomes really popular and we can see more and more FOSS > job opportunities! Soon (or even already in some place) we'll be able to > choose our favorite OS by choosing the "right employer/employment". Now > I'm being lucky because the AUF (my employer) is getting into the FOSS > move and we are now removing every Windows one by one! We get 450 > employees all around the world, so it's a pretty hard task... > It is easier to say than to do.
For world is not utopia. Big companies have more reason not to migrate to open software. AUF is not a company and it does not have customers so there is less pressure when switching to Linux. The real business is like that, it is *very* hard to switch a legacy from old OSes ( and framework, code ) to a newer one. Noone can make sure it will be 100% compatible with old system, and running well. The problem is not only the OS, it is the entire system. > 2. About games, we already have a lot of good games under Linux. I'm not > talking about little ones like tetris but about real ones, check the > Brazilian selection here: http://www.ubuntugames.org/ Note that the Wine > project does run a lot of Windows games too, without that much overhead, > see here: http://appdb.winehq.org/appbrowse.php?catId=2 > I've searched for AOE but sadly it is not fully supported. Under wine, AOE is still buggy in Single Player mode and it seems that I can't play AOE in Gamepark or Igzones. We can't blame MS for not opening AOE's source code, right? :P. > 3. Well... About our wives, there is not much to say... Some of us have > been lucky (and I am) to get married to some open-minded woman that try > to understand our world Spirit. Others... Well... Let's pray for their > souls, or psychological stableness at a minimum! ;-) She is not an IT gal and as unstable as Linux version 1.0 :P Any tips?
