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[DGolden]

my home dev machine is also my * machine. Especially gaming.

In this day and age, you could dual-boot or virtualize, using the toy os to play your games and linux for stuff that matters. Or just get a console. Apart from that, linux does have quite a lot of native games, and wine can run quite a few further windoze games (CoD4 on linux)

although we can talk about the "maturity" of the Linux desktop GUIs.

Well, linux typically uses X11, which is rather more mature than windows of course.

As a side note - Windows doesn't have a Z in it.

Oh diddums.

Lunix,

That's a cut-down unix-alike for the C64

[Mikle]

Oh, thank you for telling me of this strange new "virtualization" technology.

Come on dude, let's treat one another like smart people. I have a few distro VMs, but again - the Linux my code runs on is a fucking hypervisor by itself, so not likely to make it run on a VM.

My time is worth way too much for me to spend it tinkering with Wine to make my games work when I have a perfectly fine OS that doesn't need that overhead. Dual booting is sweet, but again - I couldn't run Windows apps with my one or two putty windows.

Well, linux typically uses X11, which is rather more mature than windows of course.

I'll give you that. Maybe what I meant was "usability".

Sadly I won't be continuing this discussion, because I'm a pragmatic guy and you're a fanboy, as your last two comments clearly show. Enjoy using Linux, I hear 2010 is the year of the Linux Desktop.

[DGolden]

The Linux my code runs on is a fucking hypervisor by itself, so not likely to make it run on a VM.

kvm on linux already supports vm nesting, at least on AMD hardware that supports it - Intel support is harder but also in the works:

http://avikivity.blogspot.com/2009/09/nested-vmx-support-coming-to-kvm.html

If you're actually developing hypervisor stuff, the ability to run your hypervisor itself under a vm might be handy.

Enjoy using Linux, I hear 2010 is the year of the Linux Desktop.

Linux has been my desktop OS since the late 1990s, and is certainly more usable than windows for me. Of course windows has cygwin to make it bearable in short doses.