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reality check

reality check

Posted Jun 6, 2008 21:52 UTC (Fri) by khim (guest, #9252)
In reply to: reality check by elanthis
Parent article: Acer likes Linux for laptops (c|net)

Until I can take the CD for all of the top 20 best-selling PC games, stick the disk in the drive, have the auto-run window pop up, get the installer to run without hiccup to completion, get game updaters/patchers running with no need for a terminal window, and start the game with no bugs or glitches... until then, Linux is the definition of "fail" to the home user market.

Interesting. By your logic Mac and eeePC should be definition of "fail" to the home user market - but reality is quite different. Note: with Mac you ONLY have a choice of ONE supplier with very limited number of models and eeePC was more-or-less single model for a long time - yet the platforms are alive and well. So while games ARE important they are not THAT important...


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