why linux would always win in a cage match against windows

[clasic_traveller_diehard]

there was talk in another thread about what would win in a robot fight a linux robot or a vista robot

well i think linux just won

http://www.plastk.net/highres/24mon/

just think of the fight metabots style

vista guy : LETS GO OVERCLOCK!

overclock beams in looking all shiny and cool and new

linux guy : CLUSTER I CHOOSE YOU!!

dark clouds clouds gather there is red colored electrostatic discharge black energy seeps from the ground and cluster ries from the center

it is a mass of linked together dead machines fused into a single destructive entity

overclock screams like a little girl and runs away

[Frumple]

*Calmly points out the near monopolistic dominance of the Windows OS in general use, only barely giving ground to the work by Mac*

*ducks*

[Erathoniel]

Bootfighter Windom XP sp-2. The game that will end this all. Check my blog.

[clasic_traveller_diehard]

*points out Linux's exponential growth over the past few years, and the natural superiority that Linux has because it can do stuff in the link above that makes it worth a million windows machines*

*grabs another chair and throws it*

[clasic_traveller_diehard]

WAIT A MINUTE WHERE THE LINUX VERSION!?!

*cluster stops tearing apart overclock and turns to face erathoniel*

[Erathoniel]

Linux version? Only the Windows heretics need it.

[kcwong]

For now, PC gaming means using Windows.

I don't think the game developers are going to change anytime soon. The good ones will provide a Linux version, but most would not.

And programmers are getting lazier and lazier these days... they consider the resources (memory, storage) infinite and their code get sloppier and sloppier.

[clasic_traveller_diehard]

HELLO!?!DID YOU SEE THE BIG WALL OF MONITORS PLAYING QUAKE 3!?!?!(my mouth is still hanging open after seeing it)

the thought is if you made your best windows machine and put it against your best linux machine which one would out perform the other in the coolest way possible

pc gaming doesn't mean windows (since Microsoft is in the console business now i'd expect them to do some thing to try(and fail) to put an end to pc gaming)

wine probably has better software support than vista(but no one has been able to prove it or disprove it)

and as for sloppy coders i expect that the ones who do more with less will make the most bucks in the future

[PotatoEngineer]

Um, really, PC gaming means windows.  Just because id software (plus, admittedly, a large portion of the indie gaming community) likes *nix doesn't mean other game companies will follow suit.  It's about market share and making money: the *nix market is a) small and b) full of geeks.  The b) makes for an excellent market, but a) makes it just not worthwhile to spend time and money programming games for it.

Wine is emulation, and emulation is slow (and, often, slightly buggy).  (YMMV, I've never actually used Wine, void where prohibited.)  Even if *nix is faster than Windows (which is quite possible, depending upon the build and options of each system), that emulation layer slows it down, so the hottest *nix gaming system will be slower than the hottest Windows gaming system---for the majority of games on the market today.

id software is rather cool for releasing *nix versions of their software, yes---but they're also in the minority.  It's mostly a pleasant coincidence that a major company dedicated to *nix releases also happens to produce high-quality, popular games.

[clasic_traveller_diehard]

first WINE stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator" it is a compatibility layer and linux uses less system requirements which more than compensates for the slowdowns in using wine (some users even reported superior performance with some games like call of duty)

second i still don't think pc gaming means windows just because the biggest pc game companies only make games for windows doesn't make pc gaming means windows and it won't mean that as long as there are other actively developed operating systems that run on pc's and have games (just like how giant robots mean more than just japan) but i am willing to compromise how does this sound

        pc gaming means the use of competitive entertaining applications designed to test the users skill and is run on the computing platform referred to as the personal computer

[Erathoniel]

Linux seriously owns Windows, but Windows isn't quite as popular as Linux yet. Plus, more software options support Windows.

[Onisuzume]

Windows is best for gaming *if* you don't want to spend time trying to figure out how to get your game running properly.
Windows is also more user friendly. (I once remember configuring the mouse&keyboard incorrectly and couldn't do a thing in linux)

If you know how to work with linux, however, its vastly superior.

Linux seriously owns Windows, but Windows isn't quite as popular as Linux yet.

Don't you mean "but Linux isn't quite as popular as Windows yet"?

[Erathoniel]

Yes.

[Burzmali]

Quoting: Onisuzume

yet

So we've heard since Windows 95 was released

[macksting]

That said, Linux really has grown in popularity, to an extent which really genuinely surprises me. It's not something you expect people to be using, but it has some market share now.

Now mind you, if I had to go 64-bit for my games and I couldn't get Linux to do what I wanted, I'd go with Macintosh. I hear the new OS is solid gold.

Quoting: PotatoEngineer

Um, really, PC gaming means windows. Just because id software (plus, admittedly, a large portion of the indie gaming community) likes *nix doesn't mean other game companies will follow suit. It's about market share and making money: the *nix market is a) small and b) full of geeks. The b) makes for an excellent market, but a) makes it just not worthwhile to spend time and money programming games for it.

Well, strictly speaking, there's also Neverwinter Nights. That game has a very small amount of corporate support in Linux.
...under Wine. Yes, that's right. They said "Please, please buy our game and run it  under WINE."
But hey, it's corporate level acknowledgment of Linux.