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Soleron said:

Impulsivity said:

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See, the thing about Opensolaris, BSD, Linux, etc. is they're not trying to screw you. MS, on the other hand...

 

 

   I do enjoy Linux and try to use it when I can (OSX as well, yes they DO charge, but for 99 bucks you can install the OS on 5 computers with no restrictions, no activation, none of that).  I would be more then happy to make Linux my primary OS if only wine would improve a little faster.

   For those of you who never use open source or OSX OSes wine emulates direct X (among other things) to make Windows games installable and playable on non windows OSes (particularly UNIX based OSes like OSX and all Linux builds).  It currently works with some games like Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings Online, Half life 2, World of Warcraft and others; ideally in the future it will work quickly with current games.  On that day I will no longer install Vista/XP on my mac laptops or built computers and will be the better for it.

   That artificial roadblock to non MS software use, incidentally, is why I made the point about not faulting anyone who pirates a MS OS.  Most people don't really choose Vista in a lot of cases, they are forced into it since MS puts in needless road blocks (like direct X) to using non MS software easily on other Operating systems.  If someone tries to extort money out of you for using things that they did not make are you really wrong for avoiding that extortion?

   If all software worked on all platforms how many people would really choose Vista over cheaper and better OS options like Ubuntu and OSX?  I certainly don't think anywhere near the majority.