[dundee] Linux vs Vista Gameing

[Gary Short]

azmodie wrote:
> intresting view of vista vs linux from a gaiming point of view
> 
> http://wastingtimewithmikeandari.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/linux-has-better-windows-compatibility-than-vista/
> 

I may have gotten the wrong end of the stick here, but this article 
seems to be saying that Wine runs games designed for XP better than 
Vista. The Vista team took the opportunity to ditch a shed load of 
legacy code, code which is in XP and harks back the the 16 bit days. 
Wine, if you get right down to it, is a (very good) XP emulator. So this 
article says, Vista (minus a lot of XP code) doesn't run games designed 
for XP as well as an XP emulator does. Umm, well no, I'm sure it 
doesn't; to be honest I'd be surprised if it did, wouldn't you?

Add the fact that there are many commenters that say the games work just 
fine under Vista for them, and it begins to look like there's not much 
actual insight in this article.

Of course, I could have gotten the wrong end of the stick.

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Cheers,
Gary
http://www.garyshort.org