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The year of the Linux desktop

Name: linus 2011-12-28 3:53

2012 will be the year of the Linux desktop.

Discuss.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-28 4:02

2000 was already the year of the Linux desktop. Thread over.

Name: VIPPER 2011-12-28 4:45

3012 will be the year of the Linux desktop.
100 after a catastrophic bug in the crashed the hivemind AI that controls all of the intergalactic civilization, primitive caveman find an old pentium4 box with GNU/linux installed and rebuild the AI using it.

Name: VIPPER 2011-12-28 5:03

>>3
Oh daddy cool! How did this mess happen!

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-28 8:05

2038 will be the year of the Linux desktop.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-28 9:17

>>5
HAHA
THEY LAUGHED

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-28 11:51

In Sci-fi they always use cumbersome Smartphone-esque GUIs for computers.

Face it, the year of the Linux desktop will never transpire. Instead we will be thrust into a dark age of touch sliders.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-28 13:31

Linux is shit.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-28 13:41

If 07/05/04 was the day of the Linux desktop, which date format was used?

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-28 15:15

>>9
00000111 00000101 0000100

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-28 16:10

Linux will never be a mainstream OS for the end users.

btw check em <<<

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-28 16:25

Lisp will never be a mainstream language for the end users.

btw check >>11's faggotry

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-28 17:03

>>11

Some non programmers people use it. These people:

* do not play games

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-28 18:22

i'm a programmer and code on virtual machines running on the ubuntu distribution, and games still run, well steam has been a bitch since of late but h-hey!! 2012 and all other years are the years of the Linux Desktop

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-28 22:00

>>14
Enjoy rootkkits, faggot.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 0:39

>>13
Only programmers play games on Linux?

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 0:54

>>16

while not absolutely true, it is likely a low probability that a non programmer would have the patience to set up wine and get their games working on linux, and trouble shooting or giving up when certain games wont work with it, especially when it is as easy as putting a CD and clicking installation buttons on windows. It's no fault to linux though. Windows users would encounter similar problems if they tried to run games coded and compiled specifically for linux through a compatibility layer on windows. But no one would ever do that of course.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 1:55

>>17
There are commercial (and free) Linux-native games you know. A great deal of them are not even terrible ports!

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 9:38

Well....can you give us some examples? I only know of Freeciv but I don't play much anyways

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 9:45

>>18
>>19
Dolphin Emulator, Quake Live and the Humble Indie Bundles are enough to get around for me.
I don't even finish most of these games.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 9:51

Quake Live is the best game for Linux for me. It's great, multiplayer shooting, lots of modes, lots of players, browser-based.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 10:23

>>21
browser-based
Stopped reading right there.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 10:42

>>22
Well, it was his last words anyway.

>>21
Quake Live requires browser plugin that runs the actual game binaries. It's not really browser based. You cannot just open any AutismOS and run your favourite browser (AutismExplorer) and hope you can play Quake Live. It works on Linux, Windows and OSX though.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 10:50

>>22
The end of the post is indeed a good place to stop reading it.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 11:39

>>20
Dolphin Emulator
ENJOY YOUR QUARTER SPEED IN METROID PRIME LOL
Quake Live
great stuff
Humble Indie Bundles
Terrible games, you're a hipster faggot etc

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 12:17

>>25
Quarter speed
Lower the graphical settings and don't use age-old hardware.
Terrible games
I sorta concur, all the bundles I've bought were just for one particular game in them. Braid, Amnesia, VVVVVV, Super Meat Boy, ...

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 13:01

>>26
Lower the graphical settings and don't use age-old hardware.
It's not old, other games ran fine. Just tried it out of curiosity. I have a Wii anyway, they're cheap you know.

Braid
http://insomnia.ac/reviews/xbox360/braid/page_01.php
I've finished it and it was mediocre at best.
Amnesia
Looked pretty cool from what I saw, haven't played it.
VVVVVV
http://insomnia.ac/reviews/pc/vvvvvv/
Super Meat Boy
One of the worst games I've played.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 15:45

HAIKU FOR THE MASSES

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 18:27

>>25
ENJOY YOUR QUARTER SPEED IN METROID PRIME LOL
Why would I when I can enjoy it at full speed? Like the other fellow suggested, modern hardware runs dolphin very nicely.

Terrible games, you're a hipster faggot etc
Many of the bonus games are crap for sure, but not all. The main titles are generally excellent though. More importantly, these titles are usually quite novel. This is a difficult point to argue either way. There's no accounting for taste. I have little interest in the vast majority of current AAA titles.

It's not relevant argument anyway. HB took in $2.4 million USD in December, so people are playing these games... at a glance it looks like there's something in the range of 25-50 thousand Linux customers plus piracy. The fact that you hate indie games1 has no bearing on whether people are playing them on Linux.

[1] I'm not offended by your taste, but don't insult my intelligence by linking to that VVVVVV 'review' like it means anything.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 18:44

>>27
Troll.

>>29
YHBT.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 18:55

>>30
`
>be retarded
>get pointed out as retarded
>lolitrolu

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 19:15

RedEclipse is the only worthy Linux game.

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-29 19:36

>>32
implying simutrans isn't worthy

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-30 2:34

>>29
I don't hate indie games, just games that label themselves as indie because that's usually a signal that the game isn't good enough to stand on it's own so it's called indie so it's not compared to the games competent people put out.

For example I like Doom, that's an indie game.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-02 5:38

It is here!
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/nz9lt/the_moment_has_arrived_the_time_is_now/

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-02 6:00

>>34
Independent of what? Their former publisher? By then id was pretty well establihbt

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-02 6:59

>>36
Everyone's dependent on something, "indie" is just a label thrown around so you the indie games don't get compared to non-indie games.

For example Super Meat Boy was published by Microsoft yet it's still considered indie. And it's a terrible game.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-02 9:23

I just need Skyrim for Linux and then I can delete my Windows partiotion.

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-02 11:28

Skyrim for Workgroups 3.11

Name: Anonymous 2012-01-02 17:28

>>37
"indie" is just a label thrown around so you the indie games don't get compared to non-indie games.

That's not really true but the whole thing is moot because it's been established that people are paying money for these games. The market doesn't subscribe to your taste and prejudices.
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