For what it's worth, I'm a gamer. Brazil folks have done a great job with http://www.ubuntugames.org/
For me personally, Gaming in general (which includes OpenGL and all the supporting functions) is the one area where other operating systems have a substantial lead and user base over Linux. Jim H wrote: > Hi all: > > Just wanted to thank you for Ubuntu and to make a suggestion. First of > all, I am not a gamer. I know a lot of people who are but I am not one of > them. After reading and hearing a lot of reasons why people don't switch > over to Linux or Ubuntu, I came to the conclusion that Ubuntu needs to > come up with a specific version just for gamers. Why not have a version > that handles all of those games that people say run only on Microsoft > systems and show them that they can run on Ubuntu. Start say with Xubuntu > base and have the software detect and setup someones computer for graphics > and processors and such right off of a clean setup. Use Wine or a version > of vmware or something of that nature that can handle the games that are > out there. Call it "Gubuntu". I currently use Ubuntu for home and > recently introduced a computer at work running pure Ubuntu. It has been a > slight challenge but I really want it to work. Thanks for listening and I > hope that this is a possiblity in the near future. > > Jim Harris > >
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