Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You are correct about that. I was just playing along. If anything Microsoft has been like an over protective mother to protect its IP and quick to fix any code that leaves it open to attack.

Like or hate microsoft, they probably have the most dependable OS on the market at the moment. You get what you pay for right?

And to show how old I am, I do have experience with Sun Solaris OS and dial up the way back machine. DOS 3.0

As it has been said before, the OS`s are just tools, and Linux is not a great gaming platform. It shouldn't be, unless you want to create a specially-tailored distro for that (hello to nextgen consoles with embedded Steam and whatnot, yeah).

The vast majority of computer users are.. well, technically stupid (I personally liked one fine blog entry on a real-life experience of that). And being everywhere, these users form a major part of CCP's target audience. So why should the devs put some concentrated effort on maintaining a Linux package for EVE, if a capsuleer probably won't be able to resolve the tiniest issue on Linux that possibly has nothing to do with EVE itself?

There are just much more Apple users to justify an out-of-the-box Mac client. If you are on a Linux box, you're probably competent enough to run EVE in Wine. I may not be very competent in Linux, but I manage.

I myself use a 3-head Debian box as my workstation that can boot Win7 also. EVE lives in the latter partition, but is symlinked and works fine in Wine, though the performance leaves much to be desired (with NVidia proprietary drivers). As i'm an industrialist, I don't really care, as long as I can watch the chats and update the orders using a separate monitor where EVE window resides, while I work or waste time in other 2 heads. If I want to see some visual glory, I boot Win7, with just a central HD monitor, normal video / audio drivers and full DX support.

Why should I bother to migrate to Win8 now? Because of DX-100500? Living on a bleeding edge? I don't have any antivirus on Win7, no firewall, no sensitive information there in case the whole thing crumbles. Just a plain gaming OS. Suits me just fine.

Due to the economy M$ like others is getting more customer oriented. Its them being nice....to maybe have you buy more. We are in the midst of a forest migration and we get M$ people on asia meet and greet tours who stop by and know this so they see how we are doing. basically we get off the book engineer support if nothing massive...and we jsut sit through thier sales pitches of expensive software we don't need/can't afford atm.

Sure they have a hidden agenda, but I'll grant them that to pick their brains. Its a business, its how it goes. Something some linux is uber people have yet to realize. Home use they won't see this most likely. It would be enterprise level. then even Ubuntu whose stuff is free will show a different side. YOur company needs support beyond what forums and google can give....ubuntu won't be so free. RH is more honest in this, they charge upfront at least for licensing based on tiers of support. Which if you must have the system up may be needed over going say cent os.