linux for windows vista replacment games etc?
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Where did you get 0.8%? Who calculated that? How? Could be more but because its free and distributed on many internet mirrors and cd's, you cant tell.
Also, I would like to update this thread about some Wine news, the wine project ALMOST runs bioshock with a small patch to the source code. It is stopped by a few directx 9 bugs.
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0.8%, 2% or 5% it doesn't matter. The point is that there aren't many people who use Linux desktops compared to Windows.
If apple decided to nail some form of Gaming technology I believe that could kick off nicely.
Apple is in similar situation as Linux, Unix based, only OpenGL supported. I think theres a port of wine to OSX but theres not much else they can do other than some form of wineish product. (I would prefer it if Apple just helped develop a open source apple port of wine!)
PCPro Reported it:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/127310/linux-doubles-desktop-share.html?searchString=linux+doubles
It was based on website hits.
I would take it with a pinch of salt, since its obtained from many more sites and torrents etc than they can monitor, its even shipped preinstalled. But even though linux has server market there is more windows desktops
I think the comment about windows being a moving target is valid to some extent.. as wine matures more they have the time to implement new windows features more quickly (theoretically).
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I would take it with a pinch of salt, since its obtained from many more sites and torrents etc than they can monitor, its even shipped preinstalled. But even though linux has server market there is more windows desktops
I don't think they meant downloads,
When ever you visit a site, your browser sends the site info about your computer which includes what browser you are using and what OS you are running.
When I used KDE there was an option in Konqueror which let you choose what got sent. There is probably a similar option in Firefox somewhere tucked away.
I think the 40 000 websites mentioned in the report use this transmitted information, to determine Linux Desktop penetration. You could argue that an average Linux users usage pattern is different to an average non Linux user but this could shift it either way and 40 000 websites is a pretty good sample size.
It also doesn't seem like to me that it would be miles out anyway, I would thing Linux penetration to be between 0-2% anyway so the arrived at figure seems believable to me.
Cider. As Apple's gain more popularity so will games on Mac's - hopefully native with OpenGL. This will have a knock-on effect for Linux users (probably a good one).
As for thinking Wine is the way forward, that's absolutely wrong. Wine will NEVER be able to keep pace with Windows development through their reverse engineering & porting. It just won't work, and you can be sure Microsoft won't let it happen either.
As someone has already mentioned, its binary compatibility which poses such a huge problem. No way would a games developer spend time creating a game which can run natively in Linux, then fully support it with patches/fixes to ensure it is compatible with the crazy number of distro's out there.