It's difficult though. I am a video gamer and love video games. It often
seems like I have to check my software values outside the door and just go
with non-free like Nintendo to get gaming. But, interestingly, this is not
true. There are plenty of Free Software video games; they just won't work on
Free Software systems. This is a huge priority for me as I usually have to
end up installing Windows to play Free Software video games that could run on
GNU/Linux. It makes it almost impossible to be a video gamer and live in
truly Free Software environment. Which creates this double standard for me
where I almost have to say, “Everyone should dual boot because even though
Free Software is good for everything else, you need Windows to be a serious
video gamer so just forget about your values or you're probably not going to
play a decent 3D game again for a good 10 to 20 years at least.”
This is what almost all my friends do. They use Ubuntu for computing and
Windows for gaming because the GNU/Linux community, to spite making many
great games, has decided that it doesn't care enough about Free Software
drivers for that can do 3D to make it a priority. And sense our society is
largely based on entrainment and gaming; this is where Windows will remain a
tag along for almost all GNU/Linux users because this perfectly usable system
can't do 3D accept with Intel Motherboards and almost no one but me seems to
really are.
It seems like most GNU/Linux users don't really care about freedom so they
don't see using Windows for gaming as a problem. Or, if they care about
freedom, they usually are more into computer tech and don't really care about
gaming. So, it doesn't effect their lives and hobbies so, again, they don't
care either. For the rare person who uses Free Software, cares about
Freedom, and still wants gaming; you'll get help from almost no one as almost
no one else is like you or cares. That seems to be my experience anyway,
sadly to say.
