{"id":1351,"date":"2008-02-04T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/04\/if-you-play-games-with-your-co\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T20:00:19","slug":"if-you-play-games-with-your-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/if-you-play-games-with-your-co\/","title":{"rendered":"If you play games with your computer, don&#8217;t upgrade to Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; until you&#8217;ve read this.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have been using Vista for well over a year now (since Beta 1). Of course Vista is slow, its bloated (over 10x the size of XP), aero kills system performance (even though this should be done on the video card), networking is pathetically slow, etc etc. We all know Vista sucks.But recently my blood has been set to a rolling boil by the fact that most of my games just don&#8217;t work in Vista. At all. Its so bad that out of spite I have decided to make a list of games that work better in Linux under Wine than in Vista. These are games that were originally written to run in Windows XP, are broken in Vista, but magically work in Linux.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See the report <a href=\"http:\/\/wastingtimewithmikeandari.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/31\/linux-has-better-windows-compatibility-than-vista\/\">here.<\/a>  It is not good for games in general.  Better to stick with XP for that one computer you keep for games (all your other computers are running Linux, I assume&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; until you&#8217;ve read this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-lN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}