On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:49:47PM +0100, Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen wrote: > Well, Mac support makes a lot of sense really. According to wikipedia > Windows covers 88% of all desktop computers, and Mac OS X 6%. GNU/Linux > only is only 1%.
It makes sense, yes, but not because of these percentages. It's probably more about Mac vs. PC than about the OS. PCs are already supported today, so any Linux user who wants to play Valve games has a dual boot system that has Windows on one and Linux on the other partition. At least that's my setup - I use Windows for gaming only, Linux for everything else (such as coding and writing this mail). Macs aren't supported yet and Macs usually run Mac OS and nothing else, end of story, so adding support for Mac makes sense because it could actually mean getting a new pool of customers. While I'd love to see Linux support, they wouldn't make any money off me if they added it. It would simply mean that I could delete my Windows partition and use Linux to play the games I already played and bought in Windows. And in reality I'd still have to keep the Windows partition around for other Windows games, so... from the vendors point of view, there is only thing you could gain with adding Linux support: Fame. It would be absolutely, positively, freaking awesome. But sadly, probably no additional income worth mentioning... Regards frostschutz _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
