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| Thread ID: 64661 | 2005-12-22 16:48:00 | Reasons To Consider Linux | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 414878 | 2005-12-23 10:46:00 | Those who think gaming is king are clearly forgetting that Cedega allows you to play Windows games on Linux. WINE allows Windows applications to be run within the Linux environment also. Those who think that Windows is the only option are clearly mistaken... yea, but that takes more effort - plus if you want decent performance you have to go with the commercial emulators that cost almost as much as XP home. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 414879 | 2005-12-23 19:42:00 | Has anyone considered the advantages of providing your office workers machines that won't install or play games without the administrators say so? It could force your employees to waste time in the office by playing such alternative games as organising the day, emailing associates, researching, doing costing exersizes, preparing press releases, or other totally pointless officy games. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 414880 | 2005-12-23 20:32:00 | Has anyone considered the advantages of providing your office workers machines that won't install or play games without the administrators say so? It could force your employees to waste time in the office by playing such alternative games as organising the day, emailing associates, researching, doing costing exersizes, preparing press releases, or other totally pointless officy games. You would take solataire away from them? :horrified |
Greven (91) | ||
| 414881 | 2005-12-23 21:02:00 | You would take solataire away from them? :horrifiedYip... And while i write this i am thinking of one useless twit who spent most of his day playing solitare and the likes, and the rest of the day, the supervised part, doing a token amount of work, and complaining about not having enough time to complete his "huge" workload. | personthingy (1670) | ||
| 414882 | 2005-12-23 22:01:00 | Yip... And while i write this i am thinking of one useless twit who spent most of his day playing solitare and the likes, and the rest of the day, the supervised part, doing a token amount of work, and complaining about not having enough time to complete his "huge" workload.As much of a Linux fan as I am, your argument is flawed. There are games installed by default in Linux anyway, they are removable, as are the games in Windows. Any competent sysadmin should know that. And in spite of that, the most commonly played workplace games are online flash based games anyway. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 414883 | 2005-12-23 23:59:00 | those flash games a just so addictive. You can't just block flash files either since some business oriented sites make extensive use of Flash. IF someone really wants to play the flash games, they will find a way. You have to trust your employees to not play games on company time, and block the most common sites just to remind them if they have a lapse of judgement. Of course, if you work somewhere where you rely on people breaking things to give you work to do, you need solataire to pass the time on slow work days. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 414884 | 2005-12-24 01:59:00 | Those who think gaming is king are clearly forgetting that Cedega allows you to play Windows games on Linux. WINE allows Windows applications to be run within the Linux environment also. Those who think that Windows is the only option are clearly mistaken... Dude get a reality grip. Most of the new high end games do NOT run in linux period. I Dule boot Mandrake and Xp and always have to boot Xp for gaming. Sure there many older games and a few new one's but not many that do run in Linux. I like Linux, but hate people that exaggerate its use. For the average home user that can bearly cut and paste an Icon I would suggest sticking to Windows as its simply easier and more compatible due to industry domination (not quality of product). |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 414885 | 2005-12-24 02:29:00 | Those who think gaming is king are clearly forgetting that Cedega allows you to play Windows games on Linux. WINE allows Windows applications to be run within the Linux environment also. Those who think that Windows is the only option are clearly mistaken... That tired old argument again. Nope, sorry, they don't work with any game. Only a few and there's usually a lot of messing about. I have a friend who is a Linux fan, there are 2 PCs in their household - the Linux PC with one or two games and the Windows PC for the real thing. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 414886 | 2005-12-24 02:43:00 | A tech friend of mine once said "Linux for the net, and windows for games", given linuxs reluctance to run viri and many other games, it sounds like good advice to me. | personthingy (1670) | ||
| 414887 | 2005-12-24 03:38:00 | those flash games a just so addictive. You can't just block flash files either since some business oriented sites make extensive use of Flash. Ala Cisco... |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
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