Re: For The Gamers

On 2024-12-22, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-12-22 à 00:30, RonB a écrit :

On 2024-12-21, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-12-21 à 17:36, RonB a écrit :

On 2024-12-21, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-12-21 à 14:02, rbowman a écrit :

https://www.wired.com/story/2024-was-the-year-the-bottom-fell-out-of-the-
games-industry/
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I'd seen a few articles but never paid much attention. RPI put a lot of
effort into their video game degree program and thought the spinoffs might
revitalize the upstate NY economy. I wonder if they missed the boat or if
the industry will spring back?
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Linux: who really cares if games run on Linux? It's a serious OS for
serious people.

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If it were a serious operating system for serious people, businesses and
academic institutions would be willing to run it, and invest in the
people necessary to troubleshoot it. Instead, both have realized that
its free cost does not result in savings of any kind because the
problems it causes often can't be resolved by even the most gifted of
technical staff. That's why they use Windows, even with the security issues.

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The reason they use Windows is because it runs Microsoft Office (and
businesses are "married" to this crap)

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They do use Microsoft Office but there is no denying that it is superior
to what's available to Linux. Perhaps WPS Office can compete at some
level, but most people I know who use spreadsheet software say that
LibreOffice is sorely lacking in the functionality they use daily.
Additionally, they say that the functionality it does provide is nowhere
near the level of Microsoft's.

 
I'm denying it. I despise MicroCrap Office. Worthless bloatware.
 
I used Calc in OpenOffice at work before LibreOffice ever existed. For my
purposes it worked fine. Spreadsheets are overused for data purposes anyhow.
If you want a database use a database software.

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Your opinion on spreadsheets and the software used to make them won't
sway people like my wife who calculates financial risk and needs to
report it to the investors. For people like her, Calc is not even up for
consideration because Microsoft's software is robust and has been
offering reliable service for decades. There were stronger competitors
to Excel than Calc in the past, competitors that had already made lots
of headway, and they too were left in the dust. It's not all because of
"shady business practises" either.

I don't think "robustness" has anything to do with it. I think it comes down
to what the others expect. It's basically a monopoly product and, as I
mentioned with Windows, monopolies have an inertia loop that's hard for
businesses to exit from. It has nothing to do with the supposed "quality" of
the product — it has everything to do with "this is what we're used to
using."

In my opinion M$ Office is bloated crapware that tries to "think" for you.
But I was only occasionally forced to use it so I never got in stuck in the
"inertia loop."

My wife uses Power Point. She originally used it because a template she
purchased only worked with Power Point. Now she's used to using it, so
she'll probably keep using it as long as she needs to prepare classes. Just
the way it works. People use what they're used to using. Inertia.

That's why so many still use the inferior Microsoft Windows crap OS.

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