It's the Gaming Market, Stupid! (Score 1)

I was just reading in Scientific American about a research group looking into the effects on vision done by 3D shooter gameplay. One of the points they mentioned was that it was quite difficult to find college students who does *not* play them. There are 6 PC's in our house, and they all run Windows because 4 of out the 5 family members play mainstream commercial games. We use Open Office, Firefox, Gimp for non-gaming applications, so it isn't Windows Application like Office that keeps us in the Microsoft camp. It is Oblivion, City of Heroes, Call of Duty etc. Yes, there are 3D games that run great in Linux. That's nice, but until EA and the others start taking the Linux platform seriously, it really isn't a choice the gamer.

We have tried running Red Hat or Ubuntu as dual-boot, or in VMWare Player. It is nice, but there really is no big reason to boot Linux, when we can do everything we want using Windows.

My son has a dual-boot Ubuntu with some fancy desktop thing where he can make his windows jiggle. That is really neat, but when he wants to play, it's back to Windows....

The key is the gamers. Microsoft works very hard on Direct 3D for a reason... I heard that the newest Direct 3D will only be for Vista. Now I wonder why that is? Hmmm.... Could it be they aren't stupid? -Jenny Z