Saturday, January 26, 2008

Why there is no Linux version of MHQuake

Reason one

Reason two

Reason three

Nuff said.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! so mhquake would use comctl's wonderful interface to the printer, and use the great innovation that are the drive letters. that's just wonderful!!!1

Now seriously, if you don't want to use unix/linux/BSD at least try to not use some specific win32isms all over the code, just isolate them in some place like "*win*" like in the original code, and leave "*linux*" alone. That way if someone wants to try it on linux is just a matter of updating the linux part.

Manoel said...

Great articles; they pretty much sum my problems with Linux. I had the same problem described in the LiveCD article, and wrestled with the commandline for days trying to write in a FAT32 partition. Other problematic points in Linux are the video modes support, and the taskbar (in Gnome and KDE, dunno about the others). To change the desktop resolution I had to change the settings in two different places, and both Gnome and KDE doesn't support the taskbar configuration I use in Windows.

Those aren't the only problems I had, but are the first ones that comes to mind. Still, if I had a spare computer I'd install Linux so I could get used to using it.