or, WINE.

I consider myself an avid gamer, and have been so since the 80s.. I haven't had a windows box in a dozen years.. When I see it, people using it, or god-forbid, have to use it myself, i'm reminded WHY i don't use windows..

I've been playing TF2 since it came out, under linux, no problems..

No, it's not better than the native awesome it could be if ported.. (hell, it runs on Mac now, half the job's already done)

I realize I'm in the vast minority of people who consider themselves a "gamer" while using linux exclusively.. but we wouldn't be so rare if Valve had the balls to actually produce a linux client.

As for that fraction of linux users who are all free software uber alles; they're the reason the term "open source" was coined. While Free Software and Open Source Software philosophies differ, Open Source Software's philosophy that "it makes sense for some software to be paid for", and that more penguins in general would be inclined to buy games for linux anyway, is all the more reason to make Steam available for linux..

but whatever.. it hurts just the same. =(

seriously.. walmart??

WALMART is your argument against linux on the shelf in stores?

Walmart failed because they sell crap, and lots of it.

For instance: what brand of PC was linux in walmart running on? Dell? somehow I think not.

So an off-brand no-name chinese OEM, with an unheardof, untested, unusable distribution of linux fails to sell in the most god-awful place to shop ever invented by man, and this is your proof linux is unsellable?

seriously, wat?

Well your in luck then, front ends like boxee have a ton of podcasts TOO! Its miraculous, I know... A little fiddling with lirc, and BAM, settop everything. Maybe a little more hardware than roku, but even my granddad can point a remote and watch... Tv OR podcasts..

-m

who cares about podcasts? gimmie tv shows..

One of the things i love about boxee is the sheer amount of TV shows i can watch on hulu, joost, cbs, and others..

Quit trying to compete with each other and give the market what it wants, all shows, on demand. Advertize your brains out like you do on broadcast tv, and let people fall all over themselves trying to make decent interfaces for your content.

Seriously. I don't care what the holdup is, just hurry up and make TV like this.

-m