mrproper
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Fact: I did not get a virus in the last 10 years on any of my 2-3 PCs I use regularly, with several windows versions installed. There is that thing called ANTIVIRUS, you know, that kinda protects you from viruses, making your argument invalid.
Facts: Windows has a larger market share, this means a bigger vulnerability target area, slower update cycles (the "updates" don't happen so often on the client computers, as they happen on the software provider's repository, it doesn't matter that Linux or Windows devs fix a memory leak bug, if it takes 2 years for it to be deployed on some machine by some admin during his lunch break), and is oriented towards accessibility and productivity (items on which linux is still way behind, no matter how you try to pull it).
Fact: Microsoft is shortened to MS or MSFT, you don't need to be an a$$.
Fact: In short, Linux is less vulnerable because nobody writes malware to target expert users. As for vulnerability: http://www.metasploit.com/
Back to the matter, it took MA 2 years to make a Windows compatible CryEngine2 game, and you expect them to put the same effort if not even more (due to the mirriad of kernel flavors, drivers and packages out there) to satisfy less than 1% of the playerbase? Is it their fault that the secure communication libraries, game engine and design tools are all built for Windows?
Facts: Windows has a larger market share, this means a bigger vulnerability target area, slower update cycles (the "updates" don't happen so often on the client computers, as they happen on the software provider's repository, it doesn't matter that Linux or Windows devs fix a memory leak bug, if it takes 2 years for it to be deployed on some machine by some admin during his lunch break), and is oriented towards accessibility and productivity (items on which linux is still way behind, no matter how you try to pull it).
Fact: Microsoft is shortened to MS or MSFT, you don't need to be an a$$.
Fact: In short, Linux is less vulnerable because nobody writes malware to target expert users. As for vulnerability: http://www.metasploit.com/
Back to the matter, it took MA 2 years to make a Windows compatible CryEngine2 game, and you expect them to put the same effort if not even more (due to the mirriad of kernel flavors, drivers and packages out there) to satisfy less than 1% of the playerbase? Is it their fault that the secure communication libraries, game engine and design tools are all built for Windows?