A simple question: Why not making this great game open source?
As we say in French, "It's the snake biting his tail".Kylecito wrote:
Here's a suggestion for people that can't play this game in Linux:
Don't use linux. Use Windows. Games run on Windows.
-Kylecito out.
It doesn't help that DX is *way* ahead of opengl at the moment in terms of usability and functionality, but I guess that is the result of the cycle which you mention.Woshee wrote:
...use of directx instead of opengl for exemple.
so how does this change what i said? games don't run in linux. no matter the circumstances, linux fanboys tend to make up weird conspiracies about how GETTING PAID FOR YOUR WORK IS EVILZ and crap.Woshee wrote:
As we say in French, "It's the snake biting his tail".
There are less games on windows because of the use of directx instead of opengl for exemple. All ID software games works natively on linux. It's easy to port a software while you use opensource tools to develop it.
A few games on linux -> Not a lot of people wanting games on linux -> developpers just create for windows -> Gamers play on windows and all of this again and again.
It's not that hard to break the circle and develop cross platform games.
Well, it's more of open-source is good and non-open source is evil from a linux fanboy perspective because open-source software tends to be more stable and errors are addressed more quickly as there's an entire community of people willing to work on a single project rather than a select few. The consequences, however, of open source is that you don't pay for it, and people often don't donate for great software if they don't have to.Kylecito wrote:
Woshee wrote:
no matter the circumstances, linux fanboys tend to make up weird conspiracies about how GETTING PAID FOR YOUR WORK IS EVILZ and crap.
awp wrote:
people often don't donate for great software if they don't have to
And you scare people away or get hacked if they have to. And people do donate. If they didn't, I wonder how all those free open-source projects would still be running.awp wrote:
people often don't donate for great software if they don't have to
Windows comes installed in almost all new PCs that are sold because of Microsoft's monopoly and vendor lock-in. That, in turn, keeps the Linux install base small, which in turn doesn't give an incentive to game developers and popular application makers to port their stuff to Linux. It's a vicious cycle. There's more to it than that (what OS people know from their workplace, what they think is a computer, etc.), but that's a simplified version.Kylecito wrote:
You went way offtopic there, and you know what's funny? Linux people have to write those huge walls of text as an argument as why linux is a user-friendly OS (which mostly isn't), but still, Windows keeps being the default and only alternative to end-users. Gives ya something to think on, huh?
Let's emphasise the slowly part of that. They ahve been saying this for years, but linux still has no place on a desktop apart from being used to show off XGL... it still fits best on the server/embedded device market, and I think things will stay that way for the forseeable future.sanchny wrote:
It's slowly changing, though, and Linux is getting better and its userbase is slowly increasing.
Requesting that part of this topic be split into a "Kylecito hates Linux" thread and moved to Random.
fixedsanchny wrote:
Requesting that part of this topic be split into a "Kylecito hates Linux-fanboys" thread and moved to Random.
because of Microsoft's monopoly and vendor lock-inAlthough Windows is by far the most popular operating system, it's good to see that at least IE is being pushed back by Firefox. I think I remember seeing on isohunt that users visiting their site using FF exceeded those using IE.
Not to be picky but, do you think people who visit isohunt are even a 8% of the users of the internet? ;P I'm sure people who only use the internet to check mail and watch the news are a majority and use IE. This doesn't mean I like IE of course.Echo49 wrote:
because of Microsoft's monopoly and vendor lock-inAlthough Windows is by far the most popular operating system, it's good to see that at least IE is being pushed back by Firefox. I think I remember seeing on isohunt that users visiting their site using FF exceeded those using IE.
Kylecito wrote:
optionally: "Kylecito hates everything" that'd be really spot-on also
I think overall FF users are increasing.Kylecito wrote:
Not to be picky but, do you think people who visit isohunt are even a 8% of the users of the internet? ;P I'm sure people who only use the internet to check mail and watch the news are a majority and use IE. This doesn't mean I like IE of course.
Now, I do not like IE, and I'm quite happy with Firefox, but I don't think using this site would be fair as a statistic for various reasons. One, we don't adhere to Ky's point of simply checking mail and viewing news. Second, the content of this site is largely centered around the EBA/Ouendan culture and, being predominantly English, this means that most of us are relatively internet-savvy (Ouendan being entirely absent in our offline communities), and the more internet-savvy the populace is, the less likely it is that people use IE.Echo49 wrote:
I think overall FF users are increasing.
We can get peppy to monitor this site =P
WHAT?!awp wrote:
the content of this site is largely centered around the EBA/Ouendan culture and, being predominantly English, ...
WHAT?!?!awp wrote:
Ouendan being entirely absent in our offline communities
what nonsense is this?eyup wrote:
Also, there's a game called Elite Beat Agents