Well, time to switch it up some, I will still be posting free games, except the games might not run in linux. I personally switched because I like the interface of windows 7 and I was having rather bad luck with wine and virtualbox for some software. I never thought I’d see the day where I would want another windows operating system, but it’s not bad. I’m not saying it’s perfect by any means though, there are always a few issues with microsoft products that get my goat sometimes, but I always switch back and forth (depending what I think is better at the time) between linux and windows.
This week also was the unveiling of the new Google Chrome OS, which is basically linux, and the chrome browser. Would be nice for a little net appliance (a cheap atom mini pc build perhaps, or a netbook). The preview has been getting mixed reviews from people all over the board but personally all I have to say is, we’ll see how it works when it’s done. I of course will probably buy a new arm based netbook to test it on when it comes out to show on here since it is a free operating system and all. I think the best we can look forward to in the way of gaming though would be stuff like java/flash based games so far from what we can see. All in all microsoft shouldn’t feel all that threatend unless they worry much about the netbook market. Google is in talks with almost every big netbook manufacturer at the moment working out deals, and the os has been quoted to be free, so it should drop the prices back down on the netbooks again to their original linux prices. Aka 199 netbooks should be the norm again.
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