Adding to what Sameer said about games, I would just like to point out the Unreal Tournament 2003 is actually available in Linux.!! If games like Unreal can be port to Linux, its certainly not long before we see a deluge of good games supporting Linux.
On Thursday 14 November 2002 01:44, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:42:52PM +0530, Amish Munshi wrote:
Windows :
The only plus being is that it is easier to use. (no one will deny that)
I do ... ease of use for Windows is a complete myth. It just happens to be the first operating system you are initiated to, and so wins in terms of familiarity.
Initiate a new user to GNOME/KDE and try to show him Windows ... he will feel extremely suffocated with the restricted, unintuitive UI.
More support for games (But with a bad graphics card that I have, I hardly play any games on windows as well).
True, but not for long ... there's this new library someone had mentioned some time ago. At leaste one game that I know Quake III with OpenGL has been ported to Linux!
Linux :
No Viruses. Technically correct. Non - microsoft product (so it is out of dirt cheap politics)
Bad thing to say ... It's not just Microsoft ... they just happen to be the current monopoly. SUN or Apple would have been no different
Sameer.