Miriam English wrote:
If you know anyone in China you can probably get a legal copy of vista
there for $3, which is what I've heard Microsoft are selling it for
there. (I think they are dead-scared of China having declared Linux
the national operating system.)
I don't know anybody who is taking up Windows Vista.
I don't either. I'm a CS major at a state school and all of my friends
are sticking with XP or moving to Ubuntu or Fedora.
All the people I know have either made the move to Linux or remained
with WindowsXP. Many have even stayed with Windows98. It has been
quite surprising to me as there was a stampede among clubs and people
I knew to get WindowsXP when it first came out, but nothing like that
has happened with Vista. I wouldn't spend much time worrying about
Vista unless it actually takes off.
The only reason I'd ever upgrade to Vista is the same reason I don't use
Linux exclusively - video game support. If the big developers started
making Linux versions of their games as well, I might be inclined to buy
those instead. I don't think this would be too hard - Blizzard has made
mac/windows versions of all of the games they've ever made, and OSX is
based on Unix, so if every company designed their engine with an
intermediate OS-specific wrapper between their code and the OS, it
should be trivially easy to add new OS support (just rewrite the wrapper
for that system), right?
Personally I spend my time oriented to Linux, having moved from
Windows some time back.
Best wishes,
- Miriam
René Dudfield wrote:
Hello,
I don't have vista to test either... Does anyone know how to get
cheap/free non pirated versions of Vista for pygame development?
I can get free versions of Vista Business from my school, but I've found
that even though it's free I still have no desire to install it.
-Luke
