[geeks] Jesus this guy could be me

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:04:48PM +0100, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 January 2003 14:00, David Cantrell wrote:
> > > Well, it depends.
> > >
> > > Some people actually run an OS on their PC instead of MS' dos
> > > extensions called windows. They buy pc's because they're cheap.
> >
> > It's my experience that such people tend not to bother with video cards.
> 
> My experience contradicts yours.
> 
> Linux can be a pretty good OS for games. K, most games are windows stuff, 
> but there is no problem if the ones you like are accidentally the ones who 
> are ported to a real OS.
> 
> Besides, a good video card can be "handy" if you use the gimp or blender a 
> lot. Given you ran a PC, would you run Blender under windows or under 
> linux? 

I think that blender and gimp would run better on a $250 SGI than they
would on a PC of the same age.  I don't know yet if wings runs on Irix.