The KGB Oracle Forums General Public Discussion (PUBLIC) The Pub Nice summary, of why Vista sucks

Those who have followed it in detail and/or work in the industry (IT) have long known that Vista is a somewhat nice-looking pile of shit, that MS hopes to push on the world via pre-existing monopoly + DX10.

This article nicely spells it out.

We need more gaming engines on Linux, period.

Yah, someone was telling me about that a few months back that Vista wasn't all it was cracked up to be. A real pity, but I'm totally happy with Windows XP.

from what I see vista is all eye candy I get a free upgrade since I just recently bought a new computer but I think once I get the software I will hold off on installing it.

Windows Vista Upgrade Decision Flowchart from BBspot

nice elph, did you get a new gaming rig ?

And the one reason to upgrade to Vista...

DirectX 10.

LOL, so we'll do it.

SDL... is that made by google? :P

p.s.

From Wikipedia:

"Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform multimedia free software library written in C that creates an abstraction over various platforms' graphics, sound, and input APIs, allowing a developer to write a computer game or other multimedia application once and run it on many operating systems including GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It manages video, events, digital audio, CD-ROM, sound, threads, shared object loading, networking and timers."

We need something. Or VMs to get better so we can just make a VM image for Vista + game. Run all our games from virtual machines, unfortunatly that wont happen anytime soon.

But it will have to be a VERY compelling reason for me to ever pay for Vista. Either the best game of all time that has no possible peer, and requires it- or .... well immediate threats of physical violence.