I propose a different explanation: linux admins like to whine, complain, and argue. It is in our nature, being computer geeks.
Take this list, for example. I just followed a thread of at least 20 emails, and read nothing but linux guys arguing about how to use their mail clients.
If you would actually pay a bit more attention to that very thread (before a lot of people started spamming it full of crap) you would have know about that it also hints at HLDS taking about 1/3 of the CPU power as HLDS_L does. If that is anyway near the trought surely you realize that Linuxadmins _really_ have something to complain about... If you can fit 3x the ammount of eg CS servers on a windows box then there is something really really broken on the linux version of HLDS. Isn't that quite obvious even to you?
Mayby the root of the problem might even be that Valve have sofar not really understood them selfs how extreemly bad HLDS_L performs. They have AFAICT acted highly surprized at all the complaints about the CPU-req of the .1 series. However the real problem isn't the increase from .0 to .1 but that this is a continuing trend for many years now, with each HLDS_L release jsut behaving worse and worse. The .0 -> .1 (cpu as well as numerous other issues) was just the last drop causing a lot of admins to clearly state, enough is enough.
Would a windows user even waste their time to reply to this posting?
Perhaps not, at least not if he is as dense as you and don't realize that he missed some very important info in that CPU resource thread just becuse some people messed it up with posting compleatly nonrelated gibberish to that highly interesting thread. If it would not have been such an extremly interesting & important thread I could not have cared less about (unintentionally) spamming it to death.
Now perhaps you could get off your high horse and actually post something usefull in that Win vs Linux CPU thread instead of starting a pointless Linux vs Windows admin nonsence thread with the basics of turing into a flamewar (that ontop of it all even misses a proper [OT] in the subject).
-- /Stefan
Software never has bugs. It just develops random features. =)
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