UT 2003 Client For Linux?

Thomas A. Anderson writes "Although not officially supported, there is a very interesting post here from Mark Rein (VP of Marketing for Epic Games) that says UT 2003 client *already* runs on linux, and that it *might* be released close after the windows client. Let's all support Epic on this... Background: Back in April, on an IRC chat, Mark Rein stated that a linux server will happen, but the chance of linux and mac clients were a qualified "likely". He stated something similar in a chat in August. All the chat logs are interesting reads..."

This is indeed great news.

[cioxx]

Because now players won't use the lame excuse when they're losing the deathmatch:

"Sorry my game froze, I had to reboot"

Great . . .

[Ezubaric]

There goes all hope of saying that converting to Linux will help productivity.

Re: $_

[Captain Pedantic]

Not to be an ass, but I would like to know why people choose to run Linux when there are more apps and better driver support under Windows? Yes, I know that you can run some Windows apps flawlessly under emulation, but can you cite one good reason why you run Linux on your DESKTOP computer when Windows is available? Linux makes an excellent server OS, but the only reason I can see to run Linux on my desktop workstation is simply for additional elitism. It doesn't do anything that Windows doesn't already do.

Please know that I am not bashing Linux. I think its a great OS. I simply want to know why people run it as opposed to Windows on their desktop PC when Windows has far greater support for new apps and hardware.