On 1/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ron Blanchett</b> <<a href="mailto:rrcb21@yahoo.com">rrcb21@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">It isn't that there are not enought games it is that there are not enough of a market share.
<br>You have to win one battle at a time.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Chicken vs. Egg... <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">You have to start with getting people to use Linux on there desktop and then you move on
<br>to the Hardware makers, the Game Developers, and the like to get them to publish drivers, games and such for Linux. You have to have the market share before you can get everything else.</div></div></div></blockquote></div>
<br>If you have market share, you get everything else. If you have everything else, you get market share. The problem is, how to get one or the other when you possess neither. Do you seek an egg to grow a chicken from, or do you seek a chicken to lay your egg? Games will not support Linux until Linux has market share, but Linux will not have market share until it can play games that are in demand. It's a dismal picture.
<br><br>When I reinstalled Windows, my initial idea was to dual boot, and only use Windows for gaming purposes. However, this did not happen for two reasons:<br>1) Dual booting is a royal pain in the buttocks.<br>2) Virtually everything I want from Linux (except stability and freedom from worrying about virii) is available (or has a work-alike) on Windows. I even got an EXT2 driver so that I can access my Linux data partitions. Does Windows still frost my shorts? Yeah, fairly often, but it's getting better as I discover more tools that make it more Linux-like. And a lot of it is F/OSS.
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