- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
You know, I was three paragraphs into my reply before I realised there was no reason to. As to that one sentence, the intention of it's insertion in my previous post was a reminder that we, as PC users, have choices. Good choices. Already Wal-mart is offering a prebuilt PC with a Linux OS for home users. The system's a piece of crud, but that's what most people seem to buy when they start in computers: a piece of junk that they don't care blows up a year down the road. If enough people "grow up" using Linux, Mac OS, or some other type of operating system, they'll be less inclined to follow the MS is best doctrine that's been fed to them for years.
And as for how it applied to the thread? If we have choices in our OS, the day will quickly come when we hve choices in our games (and the OS we choose to play them on). If you think about it, it's already here. Why buy Halo 2 if you know it won't be taken care of on PC when you can get a measure of control through the use of punkbuster in Battlefield 2?
Finally, i wish you'd have replied to the post, not one sentence. But if you don't like Linux, that's your choice. Nice to be able to say that, yes?
[Edited on 9/15/2005]