Maybe. You wrote this like it`s something bad.
And I think, you are puritan.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Armand Raynal
Is this answer to me?
If yes:
English is not my mother tongue, you are right. And I can make a lot of mistakes. But still I understand, what you are writing.
I am twenty six, you are wrong (so you can cut your arm :D).
I understand ideology of GNU, but I don`t prefer it.
You think that i must like linux only because of GNU. You are wrong. I like linux because it`s fun OS. And PhysX also give fun in game. So I want PhysX on Linux too, because It will make Linux and Windows equal for ME, not for you, but for me.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Armand Raynal
At first you show yourself as uncompromise fighter for freedom. Now you show some compromise. Interesting.
About PhysX.
I can turn on PhysX on Windows and watch cool effects. I don`t see a reasons, why turning on PhysX on Linux is disadventages? I am gamer, not programist, not owner of AMD. So I`m not interesting in changing code of PhysX and other stuff. But I am interesting in having of PhysX effect on Linux.
Teodosio
With that philosophy you can`t use proprietary because of your inner restrictions (only GNU). And restriction does`t give you freedom. So your actions are not truly free. From philosophy point of view.
From techical point of view I can`t read the source code of GNU programs and modify them, because I
1. don`t know how to do it.
2. don`t see a reason to do it.
So conception of free-only software is not my conception. My conception is free-to-choose: use free or use non-free.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I listented it. And I found, that your position is inconsistent.
All programm must be free (for free conception), but almost all games are not free, and steam is not GNU. So, what are you doing on gaming site?
And still, from philosophy point of view, linux users are not completely free, because they have restrictions of GNU.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Ha-ha. Linux is not freedom itself. Freedom gives chance to choose Linux or Windows or FreeBSD or ChromeOS or MacOS or whatever you want. This is true freedom.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Armand Raynal

Quoting: Deformal

Quoting: Armand RaynalWHY DO YOU PREFER GNU/LINUX ?

That's the question.

If it's not for the ideology, why ?

I am not prefer Linux, but I like it. And I want to play on steam os in the future. And I want equals of all platform.

Why do you like it ?

Why do you want to play on steamos ?

Why would give just a single sh*t about what is on plateforme that you doesn't use ?

Why would you choose to work, or game, or watch movies ... on GNU/linux, better than on windows ?

The only real advantage of GNU/Linux against windows is the ideology of free(as in freedom) software.
Price, or possibility to choose your desktop is strictly nothing compared to the freedom that provide GNU/Linux.

Well, is it problem for you that I use windows and sometimes try Linux?
In my country only a few percents of customers have money to buy windows. I think, you understand, what i want to say....
Linux is interesting thing. Linux give opportunities, that windows can`t give (installing program with only one string of code using "sudo apt-get install" for example).
About open source. Noveau driver is bad driver because it open source. It has bad perfomance. I do not see a reason to use it. And I do not understand, why people don`t use proprietary drivers. They paid for videocard, so they get support with this driver.
And, as I say, if you like free ideology, why do you buy games? they are not free, they are not open source.
About steam os - there were promised, that their drivers will work faster, that windows.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Armand RaynalWHY DO YOU PREFER GNU/LINUX ?

That's the question.

If it's not for the ideology, why ?

I am not prefer Linux, but I like it. And I want to play on steam os in the future. And I want equals of all platform.

Quoting: sub

Quoting: DeformalI like complaining and mentions like: "O, this is closed source, we do not need it!"
So what the problem? You may ignore buying games with PhysX. And even more, you can ignore all selling games, because almost all of games are closed source.

Again, the problem is not closed source vs. open source in this case.
It's the vendor lock-in coming with PhysX and CUDA.
This has prefectly nothing to do with it being closed source.

If developers can`t include PhysX in game, I see no reason to port it on Linux. If developers can include PhysX in game, I see no problem.
And I get an idea, why we wait for Metro Redux on linux. Maybe, they want to add PhysX in Linux version.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I like complaining and mentions like: "O, this is closed source, we do not need it!"
So what the problem? You may ignore buying games with PhysX. And even more, you can ignore all selling games, because almost all of games are closed source.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: liamdaweExcellent. *loads up steam to see it is region locked for a few days*....*sigh*

That makes no sense, why region lock in the age of digital releases. This long stupid tradition really irks me.

See you in a few days when it unlocks for the UK...

Most horrible region lock is in CIS countries. We don`t have access for some games, for example.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I hope, we `ll see PhysX in Borderlands Presequel

View this comment - View article - View full comments