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Don't say "for PC and Mac" when what you mean is "for Windows and OS X".
by stefantalpalaru 13y ago
Don't say "for PC and Mac" when what you mean is "for Windows and OS X".
- milliams 13y agoI think it will be available for Linux too though.
- galapago 13y ago"Pre-Order Jazzpunk for Windows, Mac and Linux, including DRM-free builds and Steam key"
- PhasmaFelis 13y agoIt's shorthand. You and everyone else knows very well that it means "recent versions of the operating systems descended from the IBM PC and the Macintosh."
- stefantalpalaru 13y agoThe IBM PC is strictly a hardware platform. Macintosh was also a hardware platform but the name got associated with the hardware-OS pairing even after the OS's name lost the "mac" particle. Modern "macs" use PC compatible hardware. Anyway, what I'm complaining about is the habit of naming hardware platforms with the understanding that they probably run a certain OS on them. In this case it looks like Linux is supported, just not advertised. The sooner we kill this confusing marketing jargon the better for everybody.