Re: "My kids hate the Linux challenge"

On Thu, 06 Jun 2024 23:53:58 -0400, Joel wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
 

I can understand the game thing.  Windows does have a unique position
there, though less so than in the past.  But Andrzej was suggesting
that Linux only does rudimentary functions, which is some serious BS.

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I can't find hard data but wouldn't it be ironic if Blizzard's WoW
servers were running Linux?

 
 
I'm pretty sure they are, actually.  Windows Server offers no advantage
in that kind of application.  I don't even get why people put up with it
on the desktop, but I'm perhaps an outlier in that way,
but its uses as a server OS are kind of a joke, it's all boring
corporate stuff, the kind of thing that if I were working with it, five
days a week, I'd jump off a bridge.

The closest I could find was very anecdotal where someone saw a Blizzard
job opening where familiarity with Linux was desirable. There's quite a
bit about Blizzard's server farm locations, hardware, and so forth but I
could find nothing on the OS.

I did see some references on setting up you own local MMORPG on Linux.
Apparently Blizzard frowns on homegrown version of WoW and its spin offs.