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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: For The Gamers
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 05:30:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-21, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> Le 2024-12-21 à 17:36, RonB a écrit :
>> On 2024-12-21, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> Le 2024-12-21 à 14:02, rbowman a écrit :
>>>> https://www.wired.com/story/2024-was-the-year-the-bottom-fell-out-of-the-
>>>> games-industry/
>>>>
>>>> I'd seen a few articles but never paid much attention. RPI put a lot of
>>>> effort into their video game degree program and thought the spinoffs might
>>>> revitalize the upstate NY economy. I wonder if they missed the boat or if
>>>> the industry will spring back?
>>>>
>>>> Linux: who really cares if games run on Linux? It's a serious OS for
>>>> serious people.
>>>
>>> If it were a serious operating system for serious people, businesses and
>>> academic institutions would be willing to run it, and invest in the
>>> people necessary to troubleshoot it. Instead, both have realized that
>>> its free cost does not result in savings of any kind because the
>>> problems it causes often can't be resolved by even the most gifted of
>>> technical staff. That's why they use Windows, even with the security issues.
>> 
>> The reason they use Windows is because it runs Microsoft Office (and
>> businesses are "married" to this crap)
>
> They do use Microsoft Office but there is no denying that it is superior 
> to what's available to Linux. Perhaps WPS Office can compete at some 
> level, but most people I know who use spreadsheet software say that 
> LibreOffice is sorely lacking in the functionality they use daily. 
> Additionally, they say that the functionality it does provide is nowhere 
> near the level of Microsoft's.

I'm denying it. I despise MicroCrap Office. Worthless bloatware.

I used Calc in OpenOffice at work before LibreOffice ever existed. For my 
purposes it worked fine. Spreadsheets are overused for data purposes anyhow. 
If you want a database use a database software.

>> and Microsoft's has leverage with the
>> computer manufacturers.
>
> All of the blackmail of the early years worked wonders here, I'm sure. 
> Until the late 90s, competitors had much better software than what 
> Microsoft was selling but it didn't matter because of how strongly 
> Microsoft tied those companies to its products in the 80s.

Yep.

>> Monopolies have a lot of inertia that's hard to
>> overcome. But you'll note that, for development purposes, Microsoft is now
>> including Linux in Windows. There's a reason for that. And, as software
>> moves to the "rental" phase and more and more of the applications move to
>> the "Cloud", there will be less and less necessity to use Windows.
>> 
>> It will take a while though.
>
> I'm sure that Linux is better for development. It has to be. However, 
> all the programmers I know love to use Microsoft's tools including .net 
> and DirectX. I have say to hear one programmer tell me that he enjoys or 
> wants to program in Linux. I'm not saying that it can't be done; I'm 
> saying they appreciate how easy Microsoft makes it.

My brother programs Windows applications. He despises .NET and DirectX. He 
liked Visual C++ when it was the "go to" development tool. 

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien