In lieu of the recent change of the board's name to 'PC and Mac Games', I think Linux should be added to the board title as well, games can be played just as well on most Linux distros as they can on Macs, so why the neglect for Linux users?
The problem with including Linux is that so few commercial games (which is 98% of the topics here) run natively that it would be best left to a Linux/BSD forum. I mean, if you have an issue on XP/Vista, users here can help troubleshoot. But on Linux, not only do we have to do the basic troubleshooting (drivers, ect), but is WINE configured properly? Since every Linux distro does everything differently, if I'm using Suse and you're using Ubuntu, I'm limited in my ability to help you. It just wouldn't be very practical.
If FreeBSD gets its version of WINE patched up a touch better, then perhaps that might be a reasonable one to discuss. It still brings in all the problems of WINE, but anyone who knows BSD/Unix can help you.
PC needs to be changed to Windows, as a mac is a pc. It should be: Windows and Mac OS games, or just Windows and Mac.farrell2k
I don't agree with you. While a mac is certainly a personal computer which is what pc originally meant the current term pc is a shortened version of pc compatible where pc refered only to IBM made systems which were based on dos. The name stuck through the birth of windows. Until they came out with the imac, mac were largely not personal computers but business computers.
Personally I think the board should be just about pc's. The games for mac and linux are so obscure that they really need their own forumn to answer eachothers questions.
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