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by daredtothink 4011 days ago
Hey david!

What main features would a Linux dev team need to create to seriously compete with Windows? Obviously being able to support Windows/OS X applications is something that would be useful so Wine is great. What other things?

The thing that comes to mind preventing Linux is gaming. It is finally making some ground but Direct X is the leader and plays nicely with Windows.
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davidgerard 4011 days ago
I'll note, we have a Linux distro that is in fact doing stupendously well and has end-user consumer sales into the billions. It's called Android.
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davidgerard 4011 days ago
A use case for which it is unambiguously better, basically.

Wine continues to implement more and more of DirectX (cos the guys at Codeweavers are gamers too). Wine is really pretty bloody good these days.

I recall tales of WoW players running it in Wine specifically so people they'd pissed off couldn't h@xx0r them, but I have no idea on numbers.

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