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Those games will run perfectly fine on any one of the virtualization apps for linux, and it's not the linux makers who are at fault - if the Game makers would make the games play on *any* platform, they would make that much more money...too many CEO's are far too short-sighted though to think about that (though that's changing, slowly, but changing. More games are now able to also run on Linux machines.). I agree that a 'gaming system', 99.9% of the time, will mean it 'has Microslop on it', but it doesn't *have* to be true.
Also remember, that apps like OpenOffice or M$ Office are things that are used very often by professionals who spend many months or years learning how to use *all* the parts of them to the limits - that means knowing how to make professional presentations, how to use the writer as, say,to create a professional novel or a secretary needs to know how to use it for all kinds of things. OpenOffice does all those just fine *and* is compatible with all the M$ Office stuff...M$ Office can't even say that about itself being compatible with a version 3 years old of itself.
It's probably safe to say that at least 70% of computer users are just plain ol' Joe's, who only need "email, internet, openoffice, etc.", so why did M$ think it had to do anything with Windows 3.1 if it was all *most* people needed?
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You can't say that is an 'absolute'. I've seen just as many M$ systems *not* have drivers for hardware and it had to be found on the 'net. Linux (at least SuSE (I'm not familiar with too many other distros)), has not had one hiccup already having drivers for 'most' hardware already in the kernel (which *all* the linux distros use). Granted, nVidia drivers need to be downloaded from their site, but they're making drivers *just for* linux now also. Other than that, I've not had to look for drivers for any piece of hardware on 7 literally completely different machines, all containing no same piece of hardware internally or externally.
As for stability, those same 7 machines have never had to power down or crash except during power outages. I personally had my system run for 128 days straight without having to power down or crash (it was a power outage that lasted longer than my UPS could hold out for). My moms computer has never crashed, and two other of the computers have never crashed. The extra garbage M$ puts on systems is exactly what makes it *UNstable*...that and having such a mess-up as a 'registry' (ugh!).
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I believe that would be considered 'tweaking'. How is "configuring the settings" any different on a Linux system?
I just got an e-mail from a lady friend who works on computers for a small town. A person had just bought a 'Vista Ready' machine and after 9 days the person who bought the machine was at the point of almost throwing it out the window - literally. My lady friend installed XPee on it and the owner is (sorta) happier. (My lady friend wants me to come and visit her as a friend and to show her where to download SUSE and make sure she installs it correctly on her system, by the way, heh)
My best friend just got a system with Vista on it about 3 months ago. When I was finally able to go see him (and his new system) 2 weeks ago, he wanted to know if I wanted to help take the thing out back and use it as target practice with his shotgun. I talked him into downloading and installing SUSE 10.3, I stood by as *he* installed it (dual-boot), and watched as it picked up *ALL* his hardware, including the printer and onboard nVidia graphics *AND* his satellite internet connection modem, and in an hour he was reading e-mails and doing all kinds of things...all that *without* having to worry about downloading and installing (and praying it will work) - anti-virus apps, anti-cookie this, anti-whatever this and that, ad nauseum.
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And that's 'Ubuntu'. That doesn't mean every distro will be like that. I personally don't believe a sound card driver nor a video card driver were needed (unless you wanted 3d capabilities for video).
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That works *exactly* the same for windows. There is absolutely no difference between the two OS's in that context.
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Absolutely incorrect. I do and have shown *everyone* I know or meet who owns a computer with an M$ OS on it that I can do literally anything they can do, and do it without worrying about viruses and all the other garbage M$ users have to put up with. Even for the heck of it, I tried a video and sound app that allowed me to converse with someone else on another computer (I tried it with someone in the Phillipines)...it worked fine except that I'm on dial-up and of course the video feed and sound coming 'to' me was extremely choppy (I hate dial-up and can't afford satellite and can't get dsl out here in the country <sigh> ).
Plus, at least 90% of all the apps one can find and use on linux are *free*. Some I admit aren't all snazzy with lights and bells and whistles in the GUI, but they do have a GUI and are *practical* and *work*. I've gotten hardware (in this instance a webcam that *came bundled* with the computer and the driver/software GUI CD for it) that wouldn't work on my W98 or WinME, nor W2k systems I tried it on (the W98 was mine, the WinME was Dad's, the W2k was a system of an admin I know). The webcam ended up collecting dust for a few months as I kept trying everything I could think of to get it to work, and I finally just tossed it in the garbage.
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Same here, 24x7x7...I do get one absolute over on M$ though - I don't have to reboot after installing an app or driver (other than the nVidia driver).
