Windows people have no excuse anymore. There are alternatives. Even for games. Of course, not all games work perfectly under Wine, but if you try one out and it doesn’t work, you can always send the data to the Transgaming community, and see if people can help to fix it. Not only for you, but for other people in the future too, who would also like to play a game that’s not playable at the moment. It’s a project that is always in the making, and it only gets stronger as more people get onboard and support the community.

The only excuse to stick with Windoze is lazyness. Linux can do everything Windoze does, better, and it can do even more. All that for free (although SOME things you have to pay for, but it’s mostly for support – Linux support is very thorough, not the MS “make sure you plugged your mouse up right, if not reboot, if it doesn’t work, re-install” way kind of ’support’), and you also get to strengthen, not a company or multi-billionaire, but yourself and millions of people in the Linux community worldwide.

Also, there are some games that are available for Linux, some are for free, some you can buy. A lot are ports of standard Win games, some only need a client to run the original Windoze version’s game data (as is the case with DOOM 3 or Neverwinter Nights , so you still need the original CDs), others are completely new and exclusive to Linux.

The thing is, Linux will only get better as more people join and start learning how to use their computers again. People got lazy when Windows 95 hit the shelves. It’s time they learned how to use a computer again, and got the power back into their own hands.

I am another that has given up on windoze as just being to much hassel in dealing with malware and the expense of constant updates of malware preventers while trying to keep some sort of security and safety on your box. Having a recent game to play isn’t worth the trouble that comes with it in the forum of an OS that is continually a security hole. Having that transfer through a home network is no bargain just to have the ablility to play a game. Simply the work required to fix what the holes have allowed in isn’t worth my time and effort to deal with on a continual basis. Allow that the OS isn’t cheap to begin with and that I expect quite a bit more than I am getting for the money with Windoze and it becomes an excerise in futility when dealing with it.

I’ll pass from now on when dealing with propriority software the likes of Windoze that doesn’t allow me the safety and control of my box in the interest of the dollar.

Our training is what allows the cartels to muscle out the small, more innovative companies by giving customers instant incentive to choose cartel product over independent products even in cases where customers will be screwed in the long run. Americans will turn away from a $35 product and spend $250 on a crappier product rather than spending the time to research advantages and disadvantages of each product.

An example of this is the fact that people simply refuse to spend the time to learn Linux. Someone could spend a month getting used to using Linux and be done with all the malware, DRM, vendor lockin, Micro$oft spying, and exorbitant software prices. But no, they would rather put up with all of that crap simply because they don’t want to learn how to single click instead of double click or read a book or two.
I prefer to keep up with the rest of the nations instead of becoming obsolete.

Then we’ll get to see what’s what. Hopefully their politicians will have mercy on us, and force us to reform our copyright properly in their FTA’s in the next couple decades.