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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 01:42 PM EDT |
I'm going to enjoy waving that in so many peoples faces :)
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Authored by: mcinsand on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 01:43 PM EDT |
Subject line is a quote from my son, when I was playing Diablo III on my 'buntu
box with the Enlightenment desktop manager and a low end Nvidia card. And, he
meant that my framerate was ridiculously high (a compliment). He saw the
difference on the main family desktop a few years ago when I took it from
Windows to Fedora; the speed increase as a general internet multimedia computer
was dramatic. Then, when he and his sister missed The Sims (and it didn't play
well with WINE), they complained about the general speed penalty of going back
to Windows.
For a long time, games were the major holdback for Linux at home. When I
switched from XP to Fedora, I knew that some games would have to go. However,
stability and reliability were frustrating me enough to try something new. In
the end, the benefits of going to a stable, fast OS outweighed losing a couple
of games.
When mainstream games come to FOSS, Windows has lost, especially on that front.
Valve has already presented performance gains with the port of L4D2 on Ubuntu.
With the ability to run good games on lighter hardware, OS balances will
definitely shift. The younger members of the household are generally
game-oriented (some of us never grow out of enjoying them, of course), and the
less-senior members often are relegated to the older computing hardware. When
the big games come to FOSS, FOSS exposure to new users then starts early.
Woo-hoo!
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 05:16 PM EDT |
The MIPS architecture is still viable.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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