[OT]Re: Microsoft CDs

[Daniel Mons]

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Null Ack wrote:
| You will be surprised Daniel how often I see people saying they dont
| run Linux because the gaming experience is poor.

I'm not surprised at all.  But truth be told, home users are the least
of my concerns.  I make a living supporting businesses and enterprise
where gaming typically is banned.

What's good for business is not necessarily good for home, and vice
versa (why people think Windows is good for business because it's easy
to use at home, I have no idea).  Converting the masses at home is not
my drive.  I'm far more interested in Linux being used in the business
place, because I believe it's a better suit based on it's flexibility,
ease of remote maintenance and remote configuration, and
secure-multi-user-by-design philosophy.  Particularly so when there are
competent and qualified helpdesk and sysadmins on site to support it.

Home users are welcome to low-end gaming OSes like Windows.  That
doesn't worry me in the slightest.  If people want to use their $1000+
home PCs as glorified games consoles, then let them.

Beyond that, with free virtualisation and simple dual-booting, there's
no reason why people can't have both Windows and Linux on their home PCs.

Although it is fairly tragic that the last stand of the Windows using
community is gaming.  Again from a business perspective, it's a
pointless argument.

- -Dan
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