[Gllug] Whinge

Jonathan Dye jonathan.dye at automationpartnership.com
Thu Aug 30 11:12:11 UTC 2001


At 14:06 30/08/01 +0100, you wrote:
>On , 30 Aug 2001, Jon Masters wrote:
>>On 30 Aug 2001 13:45:21 +0100, David Damerell wrote:
>>jcm>>Name one use Microsoft Windows has for you that GNU/Linux does not.
>>>Games (which is why I keep a GameOS install around at all.)
>>Which games? Are you certain these do not run under WINE now?
>
>No, and that is very interesting. How serious a performance hit is
>there? It would be a very big win for me to get GameOS off the machine
>altogether...

Half-life runs really well.  I think a lot of 3D games that uses OpenGL can
be made to run (with various amounts of tweaking).  I don't know about
anything else.

JD

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