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Name: Anonymous 2005-09-12 4:29

there is a compatibility issue??

Are they not gamers?
They don't use general programs??
or are softwares actually compatible on linux??

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-13 9:00 (sage)

>>15
Of course, Linux should be running Linux games. However, you can hardly make a commercial game that will run on Linux. You'd have to distribute 200 MB of source code so users can read configure --help for 15 minutes, run configure, go make coffee, drink coffee, run make, donwload 10 MB worth of libraries, recursive process (compile them, possibly downloading other packages too), then finally run make, go watch TV (best watch a long movie), then see why it failed, spend hours getting it to work, then make install, so the game starts crapping on every directory, only to find it failed because it expected libraries to be in /usr/local/lib and they are in /usr/lib, and so on.

Once you finally get your game built, and I say your because you can't dream of redistributing that to spare a friend of the suffering (you don't even know where did it store all sorts of shit as it spans for a hundred of directories which are all messed up with other applications), you need to fix your buggy DGA drivers, update your video drivers, and fight your way editing obnoxious configuration files and restarting the X server for approximately a gazillion times, then you might think on playing, if you're lucky enough and the game actually works.

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