OT Action Computer games

[Andras Simon]

On 4/22/07, Steve Searle <steve at stevesearle.com> wrote:

>
> I'll no doubt attract the odd flame, but to be honest in these
> circumstances I think he would be better with a MS Windows PC.  The
> games that his peers will be playing, and that he will probably want to
> play are just not available for GNU/Linux.
>
> You can always set the PC up as a duel boot PC, and encourage him to use
> GNU/Linux for other activities.  I did that for my son's - the elder now
> in his early 20s uses GNU/Linux for development, etc., and my 10 year
> old likes to use it for web browsing and "messing about on", but both
> revert to MS Windows for most games (as do I).

I wonder how Windows via KVM would fare as a substitute for dual boot
(assuming of course a processor with virtualization capabilities,
which is not a problem these days, and a working graphics card driver,
which is).

Andras