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Klaus Schilling wrote:
[...]
> 
> That's an utter lie. The best games, like nethack and dominion, are available
> for Linux.
> 

For a very few hardcore linux CLI types they are fine.  The BIG
moneymakers (because
people buy them in droves, proving they are what is truly wanted) are
the nice
graphic games like Warcraft, Diablo, etc.  Then there are the 3D
first-person games
that truly test the full capabilities of your system.  

Sorry, some people may like to play games as though this was still the
70's where 
text interfaces were cutting edge (along with such graphics heavyweights
like
Pong) but that is not where most game-players go.  They go for Flight
Sim, Comanche,
F22, Unreal, Half-Life, SpecOps, Rainbow 6, and the like.  THESE are
games that
are demanded and popular to the most people and it be these that would
make non-x86
systems more viable (beyond the price issue, which is another matter). 
That and
the common productivity apps.  It is simply not good enough (no matter
how you might
bemoan the FACT) that there might be a database program that is GPL and
open-source,
etc, or a spreadsheet, that is available on alternate platforms if they
are 
largely CLI.  That isn't where computers and users are today.  Tomorrow,
people will
be talking to their computer instead of using a CLI (while still using a
GUI for 
many tasks).  

You and the few like you are NOT the mass of computer users.  If you
were, then Sierra,
Interplay, id, etc, would be making text-only games with "great content"
and no look.
They don't because it doesn't sell because that isn't what most people
want.  It is
really very simple.  In any case, it is a waste of hardware to limit
oneself to text
when you can get near VR immersion in many games.

Nethack may be fun to a few, but it isn't really very popular in the
overall scheme 
of computer games.  None of the supplied X-games are (xboing, xgalaga,
xchess, etc).
They might be a bit of a diversion (not unlike Winbloze's Solitaire) but
they are
FAR from being a major draw.  

patrick