Miriam English wrote:
If you know anyone in China you can probably get a legal copy of vista there for $3, which is what I've heard Microsoft are selling it for there. (I think they are dead-scared of China having declared Linux the national operating system.)I don't either. I'm a CS major at a state school and all of my friends are sticking with XP or moving to Ubuntu or Fedora.I don't know anybody who is taking up Windows Vista.
All the people I know have either made the move to Linux or remained with WindowsXP. Many have even stayed with Windows98. It has been quite surprising to me as there was a stampede among clubs and people I knew to get WindowsXP when it first came out, but nothing like that has happened with Vista. I wouldn't spend much time worrying about Vista unless it actually takes off.The only reason I'd ever upgrade to Vista is the same reason I don't use Linux exclusively - video game support. If the big developers started making Linux versions of their games as well, I might be inclined to buy those instead. I don't think this would be too hard - Blizzard has made mac/windows versions of all of the games they've ever made, and OSX is based on Unix, so if every company designed their engine with an intermediate OS-specific wrapper between their code and the OS, it should be trivially easy to add new OS support (just rewrite the wrapper for that system), right?
Personally I spend my time oriented to Linux, having moved from Windows some time back.I can get free versions of Vista Business from my school, but I've found that even though it's free I still have no desire to install it.Best wishes, - Miriam René Dudfield wrote:Hello, I don't have vista to test either... Does anyone know how to get cheap/free non pirated versions of Vista for pygame development?
-Luke