Re: Windows Assembly

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:40:28 -0400, Evenbit <nbaker2328@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Richard Cooper wrote:

And yet Linux expects graphics vendors to jump though hoops just to
support it.  They could at least make it easy.


And yet Microsoft expects hardware vendors to jump through hoops just
to support Windows???  They could, at least, make the job easy.


They don't have to, they're popular.

Do you see what I'm saying here. Back in the days of DOS, you'd buy a video card. On it's driver disk, not only was there a driver for Windows, but there was a driver for anything else that happened to be popular at the time, like AutoCAD. AutoCAD ran in DOS, but it needed a video driver, and since it was popular, the graphics card manufacturers didn't stop at supplying a Windows driver, they supplied an AutoCAD driver too.

Linux isn't that popular yet, and to make things worse, it's a pain in the ass to develop for. So of course there aren't any drivers for it. On the other hand, Windows has 90% of the market share, so it gets drivers no matter how much of a pain in the ass it is.

Linux thinks it should get the same privleges as Windows, that it should be allowed to be a pain in the ass to develop for and yet still have people develop for it. It doesn't have the market share that it can do that, so it needs to make things easy if it expects to get much of anything in the way of support.

Dang!  You are really showing-off your superior IQ level here:  He
states that he has QuakeII for Linux and you go and quote the
requirements from the Windows box.


That's all I could find:
http://www.idsoftware.com/sitemap.php

It's not on Id's site, so I can only guess it's because Id didn't think it was a worthwhile project, and so they didn't do the port, and someone else did it, either with or without Id's cooperation, but the point is that Id didn't think supporting Linux was in their best interests.

Now I don't know, maybe Id did do the Linux port, but the fact that it's not on their web site leads me to believe that they didn't.

Note that I never said that they're aren't games for Linux.

And lets not forget my origional point, that the difficulty in developing for Linux and the fear of insane tech support costs cause developers to not want to support Linux. Finding a single developer who's willing to do it doesn't prove me wrong about all of the rest. And if the game doesn't come with tech support, then that definately doesn't prove me wrong.

Hehe...
you've got the entire newsgroup bowing down to your obvious guru
status.

Guru... So what if I'm not a guru. The fact that I've used Linux exclusively for five years now and I still can't get this *** to work should be indication enough that there's something to what I'm saying.

However, when some Slashdot "guru" gets something to work after fucking with it for a few days, he then thinks that it works flawlessly, and jumps right up to defend Linux at every turn.

In any event, I doubt that the entire newsgroup is following this thread. This is alt.lang.asm, not alt.bitching.linux. I don't even follow half of the assembly related threads.

Funny product choice here..  It was widely publicised upon release that
the **Windows** version of DOOM III would only work on 1% of the
installed base of home game computers.

The difference is that if you meet the minimum requirements, then it will work in Windows. Linux always comes with a minimum requirement that you be willing to *** with something to get it to work, and that you be a "guru" so that you know what to do to get it to work.

You really should come out of your mother's basement sometime 

Basement?  I've got my own room, what the *** are you talking about?

Computers are spread all over the world and used by so many people that
a company can make a pretty handsome profit by just targetting 1%, or
less, of that base.


And Linux has a 5% share and how many companies target it?

If you don't want to believe what I'm saying, then I can't make you. However, I don't think you understand what I'm trying to say, so this is all kind of pointless.
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