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smokey:
Windows (at the moment) is really PISSING me off. Explorer.exe crashes at least 20 times a day and the computer (after 5 days) needs a complete restart because my sound is fnarked and the system is really unstable.

I am currently looking at RedHat 8.0 as a good distro of linux to try out but I have one slight problem - games. Westwood being the unskilled company they are provide no support for linux. I don't really like dual booting because I like to spontaneously play maybe one game of something and then return to work.

I can't shell out any more money and I would really like to dump windows.

Any advice on these matters would be greatly appreciated.

Calum:
McPot, my advice is, you can't have your cake and eat it. linux has a shitload of good games, and a lot of them are free, and newer and/or better than their windows couterparts. It all depends on your preferences of course.

Choose your platform. dual/triple/quintuple boot if you want, what's the harm? but if you use windows, sorry, but you signed the EULA saying you would put up with the bullshit, the spyware and the forced upgrades!  :D

creedon:

quote:Originally posted by Calum & his insidious little spies:
McPot, my advice is, you can't have your cake and eat it. linux has a shitload of good games, and a lot of them are free, and newer and/or better than their windows couterparts. It all depends on your preferences of course.

Choose your platform. dual/triple/quintuple boot if you want, what's the harm? but if you use windows, sorry, but you signed the EULA saying you would put up with the bullshit, the spyware and the forced upgrades!   :D  
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The game thing has been a primary bitch from a lot of people who SAY they want to use Linux.  Linux does have its own native games, but if you require all the flash & crash that Win games have, run Win.  Linux will eventually have Windows games ported to it, but it won't happen overnight; there was a company that wrote native-app games for Linux, but no one bought their product; "Hey, it's Linux- this game must be free!!"  I was really sorry to see Loki software go under, not because I'm a gamer, but because it was a defeat for Linux.  Your post reflects that attitude; "I can't afford Windows games, but Linux games are free, right?"  REAL wrong!!  The people who write software have to eat, have a place to live, and just generally exist.  Linux isn't just a bunch of hackers who volunteer their time to write games (BIG exception; Debian maintainers- Bless'em).
I guess you have to make a choice: Linux and "crappy" games or Windows and no stability, but the games are COOL (and EXPENSIVE!!)

Calum:
what about linux and expensive cool games, or windows and crappy free games? those are two distinct choices too. Also, i hope my post doesn't reflect that since i just finished telling zombie90210 in another thread that all that 'it's linux, it must be free' stuff was a load of old horsewallop!

sorry if i misrepresented myself, i just meant that if people expect linux to be windows, they will be mistaken. All too often, windows users fail to give credit to linux for being linux. only windows should even be expected to be windows, and quite frankly if other systems stopped trying to be windows, the world would be a better place.

TheQuirk:

quote:Originally posted by Ex Eleven / b0b 2.1:
Fuck windows, i doubt ill ever be using it again..
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Why the fuck would anyone care?

[on topic]
Try downloading the evaluation copy of VMWare and try running your games. It'll work for thirty days, and then you could maybe try WineX and... And pay for it (it's only about fifteen bucks!)

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