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

bitrogue

bitrogue
SirGeldi said:
I hate Windows with passion since version 1.0, but when a game runs fullscreen i don't see the OS and couldn't care less.

Can we have a MS-DOS version ? ;)
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So this is just an anti-Windows sentiment, not necesarily an anti-Micorosft sentiment then?
 

bitrogue

bitrogue
zmurf said:
Shouldn't be so far of with a Mac version in pipeline... Depending on what sort of technologies they choose. But If they do the Mac version in, say C++11, and use a 3D engine based on OpenGL there should be a quite small effort to port it to GNU/Linux or Android/Linux systems.
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Yes, but the point is, they made a Mac stretch goal based on an overwhelming amount of Mac interest. But this poll isnt exactly reflecting that.
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
bitrogue said:
Yes, but the point is, they made a Mac stretch goal based on an overwhelming amount of Mac interest. But this poll isnt exactly reflecting that.
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I agree, it's looking like a Linux stretch goal would of been better, but that doesn't take into account all the people who voted *nix as they would gladly dump windows tomorrow if it meant they could still game.

in my view a Linux goal wouldn't of added to the user base, just taken from the existing one while Mac support is a genuine widening of the user base as a lot of people have a Mac and no windows compared to the few who have Linux but no windows or Mac.

So, despite what the poll suggests I'd say FD got it right.
 

Jason S

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The other thing about the MAC version which would appeal to FD, is all those apple mac stores everywhere may well have a copy of Elite running on some of their big iMac screens. Hence very good advertising for ED.
 

Juniper

Juniper
AndyB(EDB50) said:
I agree, it's looking like a Linux stretch goal would of been better, but that doesn't take into account all the people who voted *nix as they would gladly dump windows tomorrow if it meant they could still game.

in my view a Linux goal wouldn't of added to the user base, just taken from the existing one while Mac support is a genuine widening of the user base as a lot of people have a Mac and no windows compared to the few who have Linux but no windows or Mac.

So, despite what the poll suggests I'd say FD got it right.
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The caveat to that is that if the Steam console is released this year (which is Linux based AFAIK), and E: D ends up on Steam, a Linux version would make much more commercial sense than Mac.
 

Abysinth

Abysinth
Dusty said:
Ideally Linix because I want to convert to Linix but right now windows gets the most support
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I wanted to learn Linux too, which is why I bought my Raspberry Pi. At around £30 it's cheap and easy to get started and if you mess it up you just write another SD image or buy multiple CD cards.

it's a much safer route then dual booting my only computer.

Mine is now running as a web server and MySQL db server (LAMP) and I'm converting to new languages (Python and PHP)

I don't think I've enjoyed computing as much since my BBC days.
 

Anjin San

Anjin San
Konichiwa

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit probably, will certainly be Windows 7 64bit, of some description and definately not Windows 8:eek:
 

Comisar Augustus

Comisar Augustus
Voted OS purely because since obtaining a career in graphic design, this is the platform I've ended up on. I would've voted windows if mine hadn't died last year :(
 

SirGeldi

SirGeldi
bitrogue said:
So this is just an anti-Windows sentiment, not necesarily an anti-Micorosft sentiment then?
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It was an anti-GUI+Mouse sentiment but not very serious :p

I will have to install Win7 64 on my next PC anyway to run Star Citizen (currently running XP on a Core2Duo) so i won't install a second OS to run Elite.

But i suport a Mac & Linux version because people should have the choice.
 
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Tibrogargan

Tibrogargan
It's interesting that you included "Web Browser" as an OS. (Assuming you really mean "platform", no "OS"). There's a whole lot of implications about hardware resource usage that are abstracted away by building on a browser platform. Just wondering if the technology has progressed to the point where it's possible to do a game like Elite satisfactorily purely in a browser.
 

Kerrash

Kerrash
I'm still wondering how much work it would take to port Oolite to JavaScript so I could play it during meetings at work :rolleyes:
 
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Hamerstein

Hamerstein
I'll run it on Win 8 (64bit), not everyone seems to like it and the interface takes a little getting used to if you're not running it with a touch screen, but man - it's fast.
 
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