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"your framerate is ridiculous!'
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 03:11 PM EDT
I think gaming on Linux will take off in Europe because so many people here have one or more desktops already running it. Just as mcinsand states, stability and reliability is important and 'ordinary' un-geeky users appreciate that; the easier to use linux distributions don't go belly up at the most inconvenient times.

A IT friend of mine that charges £70 an hour for home visits, mentioned that he is surprised by how many of his customers now use linux on the main family computer, linked to a linux server, simply because it always works. He's normal reason for a revisit in these cases (for example) is when they want to access their computer from their android mobile devices to program Mythtv to record a TV program. Mythtv defeats most non-geeks in his view. Thus he doesn’t see linux as a threat to his livelihood, indeed, he and his wife likes linux users because they don't phone up and complain that its gone wrong again. Instead, they ask if he can bespoke their existing set-up to suit the way the family works.

The desktop may have had its day but the flexibility that linux provides the user with, is what the user wants. The desktop is dead – long live the desktop (Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!).

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