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[Ingo Ruhnke <grumbel@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/5/24 sakuramboo <sakuramboo@xxxxxxxxx>:
> It is the same as saying "FOSS games are crap and we realize that so we are
> including Wine so you won't have to deal with the crap FOSS games."

Well, yeah, but as hard as it may sound, that is the reality of the
situation. FOSS gaming comes nowhere near to provide the quantity or
quality of proprietary games and that won't change for many years or
better decades to come. And there really is no way around that fact.
Gaming on Linux means in large part using Wine, Emulators and all that
other stuff that runs games that are non-FOSS.

I don't even see that as much of a philosophical dilemma, its not like
anybody is against the inclusion of video or music players in Ubuntu
because it would promote the watching of non-free movies or music.
With games its pretty much of the same thing, they are non-free forms
of entertainment, its just that their format (aka .exe) is quite a bit
more complex then your average mp3, luckily FOSS players do exist (aka
Wine).

> Certain video drivers, video cards, heck, even certain types of hardware can break the
> usage of Wine.

If certain cards or pieces of hardware are known to cause trouble with
certain games that is certainly something that could be checked for.
If the whole manual feedback reporting and regression testing that is
done on appdb could be included in any of those one-click installation
tools that could certainly be helpful in producing more bug reports
and especially more detailed one, as information on hardware could be
gathered automatically.

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