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A Desktop Operating System is so much more than what the author claims it to be. Lets break down the arguments: - Viable Gaming Platform: Viable does not mean
by gamesbrainiac 11y ago
A Desktop Operating System is so much more than what the author claims it to be. Lets break down the arguments:
- Viable Gaming Platform: Viable does not mean good.
- Hardware: Things have improved massively, I'll give the author that much, but is nowhere near where Windows is.
- Software: The grade of commercial software for linux is laughable. Sure, you can get plenty of free tools that are also available on other operating systems as well. But you'll be in trouble if you want something as good as Camtasia or Screenflow. Microsoft and Apple both have plenty of high grade commercial apps that work on their platforms.
- _yy 11y ago> The grade of commercial software for linux is laughable This highly depends on the industry. Camtasia and Screenflow are one thing, but many high-priced CAD / specialist / niche products are offering Linux versions nowadays, which helps Linux adoption in the enterprise.
- kagamine 11y agoAll of which are not attributable to Linux per se, but to 3rd parties who refuse to deal in Linux. Reverse engineering hardware to create a driver is hard work, and all because vendors refuse to provide a stable driver for their own hardware (trackpads and graphics cards being the obvious examples). Valve has proven that there IS a gaming market for Linux when everyone said there wasn't, and proved it months in advance of the release of the first SteamBox. How many other software vendors have been parroting that "there is no market" reasoning without ever backing it up? And sometimes you have to create a market, not wait for it to exist before trying to fill it.