"This Happened"

1. And I just witnessed the saddest moment of introducing my wife to gaming.

TheBlueDeath 3 hours ago#1 The binding of isaac is what got her started in gaming due to the graphics of it being cutesy. This was about a year ago. (PC gaming but Ps4 is more active than the ds3 pc board) Starts off horrible at most games to start with but keeps trying due to her wanting to see more. Kept watching me play dark souls 3 then got started on her own character. i explained dueling and about how Pontiff's area is a designed spot for her. She tried her hand at it and kept getting destroyed of course but after being summoned she got killed and the player did the (point at the ground) gesture. She asked "Why did he do that? normally they bow or wave" in the most innocent (or ignorant) way possible. I told her that he was showboating over having killed her and then she did it again, asking "Why?" once more. I just looked at her, forgetting she didn't grow up with online gaming and experience all the ass****es. I told her how he was rubbing in the fact he won and she shrugged, saying it was just a game. But after that she didn't seem to be having as much fun or laughing after the duels. We booted up Mario Cart on the wii for a change of pace afterwards but that moment really stuck out, how she realized that a lot of online gamers are wieners. Made me sad.

Assertion Vs Assumption

Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.

I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.