On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Michael Sternberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walk to any "Atid ha Mahshevim" store and check how many game titles for > Windows they have.
Why should I? When I want games I just "apt-get install" them > Don't forget that every month there are ton of new games for M$ gets > developed. And why should I care? > And try to calculate in your mind how many games for Linux do you remember. More than those I remember for Windows. > I mean real games, not NetHack - full graphics, animations and sound. Nethack is a real game. You define "real" as "game developed for MS", and then wonder why there are so few real games. As an aside, my machine has no soundcard, so I couldn't care less about sound support. Games with too much animations tend to crawl anyway when I'm doing something else with my machine (like compiling or installing software), so I actually prefer the lighter ones. > Unfortunately, it is still much more profitable to develop games for Windows > platform :( And, again, I don't see my reason for caring about this fact? I think what you're missing is that I really don't care whether other people are pleased with the games Linux has -- I am not other people. I care about whether *I* have a useful desktop. For me, a useful desktop certainly implies games -- sometimes I get tired of coding or writing papers, and I need to take my mind off things. And I do. I have Debian GNU/Linux sid, which is a wonderful desktop for me. Hence, it's a win. I don't care how popular it is, I don't care if nobody except me ever uses it -- I don't have to justify economically supporting it, because there are about a thousand people (plus various upstream maintainers, probably closer to 10,000 people) who help maintain it collaboratively. PS. Don't send HTML mail to the list. It does nobody any good. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
