15 Aug
2018
15 Aug
'18
9:08 p.m.
Yeah if it hadn't been for games I would probably not be a systems
administrator today it got me interested in PCs. They also have made my
relationship with my daughter stronger as we can talk about the same things
and play together. I think the real issue with new games for Linux is the
time it takes hundreds sometimes thousands of hours to make a decent
products and with Linux most people are doing things in their spare time.
So trying to find the dozen or so people that have all the skills needed
and coordinate them all remote is very tough. It gives a greater
appreciation for all the people that are keeping TDE alive.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:24 PM, William Morder <doctor_contendo(a)zoho.com>
wrote:
On Wednesday 15 August 2018 08:06:11 Pisini, John wrote:
Ah yes, I ought to have guessed ... you are a gamer. And I am not. I mean,
I
did waste some time with Pac-Man when it came out, and there are a couple
others that would come to mind if I thought hard enough on it. And an old
friend of my was a game designer, with numerous titles to his credit. So
while I am not totally unaware of computer games and gamers, there's a
generation gap between us on that point, at least. I never got into that
stuff, and had other interests.
My son pretty much wore out my old Commodore Amiga 64 playing games on it.
He
was about 10 at the time, and imagined that pounding harder on the
keyboard
and mouse were the same as hitting a ball harder in the "real world"; in
any
case, computer games got him interested in computers generally, and he
went
on to run the IT department at the university where we both attended
(though
in different decades). And I know that computer games led to many more
practical developments; without gamers, for example, our computers would
probably still have 80 mb hard drives with 256k RAM (or something like
that),
and we would all be using dial-up to access the Internet.
What I don't understand is why gamers don't develop more games in Linux,
or at
least make them cross-platform. I suppose there are licensing issues, but
I
would think Linux geeks are creative enough to find ways to make games
that
blow away Windoze and Apple versions.
Bill
> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 15 August 2018 05:38:30 Pisini, John wrote:
> > > Don't use Debian Multimedia with Jessie if you use wine it completely
> > > hoses
> > > > the sound in any wine
programs.
> > > Better yet, don't use
wine at all, as Linux usually has better software
> > than
> > anything in Windoze, so I don't see why anybody would take the trouble
of
> > ;-)
> > > Myself, however, I prefer
VideoLAN or the MEPIS / mx / antiX
> > repositories. I
> > would use deb-multimedia as a last resort. Also you must be sure that
you
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Systems Administrator
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I can only speak for myself but I like to play
games and some are Windows
only but a lot of them will run under wine. A perfect example is Doom
2016
there is no Linux client but it runs pretty well
under wine and I am a
huge
Doom/ID fan going back to the first release in
the early 90s of Doom 1
and
even further back of the original Wolfenstein
going back to the early
80s.
I don't trust Windows and I will go without a
game rather than install it
to play a game but if I can get the game to run then why not? I go the
extra mile and buy Linux versions when they are available and I will
write
the company and ask (nicely) for a port, I just
recently bought the last
Tomb Raider as it didn't work well under wine unless you had a system
much
better than mine and they didn't have a Linux
client. As soon as they did
though I like the franchise and I am glad they did it is a really fun
game.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:21 AM, William Morder
<
doctor_contendo(a)zoho.com>
> trying to run wine to emulate them. But we
all have different needs,
so I
> > will try not to judge....
> > get
> the "genuine" deb-multimedia, not the fake site and repository that
> somebody
> else is hosting.
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