Hardware & Technical Your Ideal Operating System for Elite: Dangerous

Which is your dream Operating System for Elite: Dangerous?

  • GNU/Linux

    Votes: 77 25.1%

  • Android

    Votes: 8 2.6%

  • Windows

    Votes: 179 58.3%

  • Mac OS

    Votes: 31 10.1%

  • iOS

    Votes: 7 2.3%

  • Web Browser

    Votes: 5 1.6%
  • Total voters
    307

yeehi

yeehi
Elite:Dangerous is going to run on Windows and Mac, for sure. One hopes that it will be able to run on other operating systems, too.

Were it possible for Elite:Dangerous to run on any OS, which one would you mainly use?

Please answer the poll.

Some games, eg Battlefield 3, can be played in a web-browser, if you install some software. This is also included as an option. An advantage of running a multi-player game from a browser is that you can have game that normally requires high hardware spec, eg GPU and CPU running fast and in high detail on an old computer.
 
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ollieclark

ollieclark
There's no "I don't care" option. I'll be buying a new computer and putting whatever OS on that it needs. Once I'm playing I won't care what OS is behind it.
 

lysander

lysander
My Ideal Operating System for Elite:

Something with the Mystery of OSX, the Liberty of FreeBSD, the Transparency of Windows, the Idealism of Plan9, the Consolidation of Linux, the Badminton of Ubuntu, the Prophecy of Solaris and the Orbital Mechanics of OpenVMS. Also there would be a driver compatibility layer that meant all drivers for other operating systems worked with this one.

It would be Just-in-Realtime Modulithic.

Understood ? Make it so !

I'll settle for what he's taking.
 

tricky

tricky
lysander said:
My Ideal Operating System for Elite:

Something with the Mystery of OSX, the Liberty of FreeBSD, the Transparency of Windows, the Idealism of Plan9, the Consolidation of Linux, the Badminton of Ubuntu, the Prophecy of Solaris and the Orbital Mechanics of OpenVMS. Also there would be a driver compatibility layer that meant all drivers for other operating systems worked with this one.

It would be Just-in-Realtime Modulithic.

Understood ? Make it so !

I'll settle for what he's taking.
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Juniper

Juniper
As the game WILL run on Windows and Mac, there's no point in voting for either of those as far as I can see.

So I'll vote for Android, as it would be lovely to play on my Nexus 10 or Samsung S3.

The operating system really makes no difference as others have said. I'd like it to run on different devices though, so whatever it takes to get it on there.
 

Aussiedroid

Aussiedroid
All my games are on Windows platform, so Windows for me.

Please no web browser / Facebook version / mobile phone / console versions !! :p
 

intrepidis

intrepidis
It's a pity you didn't put PS3/PS4 as an option, coz that'd be my ideal gaming platform. I'm happy to play it on Windoze though.
 

Jokester

J
It would be interesting to know how many of those who said Mac or Linux as a preference would actually be able to play it on Windows as well through dual-booting.

I'm a Windows man myself.
 

MikeSnos

MikeSnos
robbiec said:
Where's OS/2 (or Ecomstation) :eek:
I'm going away now, grumbling to myself :D
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OS/2??? You mean people are still remembering that thing? I remember developing on it for about 10 minutes back in 1992 when it came out... I used the OS/2 Warp disk I had as a Mug Coaster... Shows what I thought of it after it's step-child Win95 came out....
 

deMangler

deMangler
Voted linux. I run versions of Windows in a VM for support reasons but usually that is not suitable for gaming so I have to reboot into a Windows install. It would be nice not to have to reboot into Windows to play a game.
 

psuamier

psuamier
Voted GNU/Linux. Many parts of the game will run on Android and Linux Distributions. Main difference might be the client, but this depends on the framework behind it.

MacOs, Windows, Linux can use a single platform-free development frameworks as a base. This can - probably with some restrictions - be used on Android too (I don't know for IOS - while it is mainly Objective-C I could imagine that it is enough to provide a wrapper for the IOS API similar like done on the Java-based Android).

Personally I will use wine for the Beta-Tests as logically this will be the first available platform. I hope to be able a help to get E : D running this way on Linux.

Finally I sincerely hope that they use OpenGL and not DirectX as base for their 3D graphics - this should reduce development costs for the platform ports. Remind you that if you count all existing platforms for gaming (i.e. Smartphones, Tablets, PCs), the Windows share is remarkably low. You can bet it will be drop further still a bit though I expect the number of mobile and stationary platforms to even until E : D is released.

I don't dare to make predictions if people will stop using PC completely by replacing them with a tablet even though most applications are available for all platforms. PC nowadays - especially for games like E : D suits myself much better than a mobile-optimized gaming system where energy-saving is usually more important than raw speed.
 

imski

imski
I run a mac with a Win 8 partition exclusively for games, so whilst I prefer not to boot into Win8 it's not a big deal.

Frankly all I care about is which of those two platforms has the best performance, which is something I'm sure will feature as part of beta testing.
 

Mack

Mack
Although I can't stand windoze 8, perhaps with a touch ui it could make it more interesting - but i'm sure you end up with whole arm RSI lol
 
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