Kashiwaba Tomoe Posted June 10, 2012 Posted June 10, 2012 So yeah, I'm considering backing up everything on my hard drive, and installing Fedora. Anyone have tips for running windows games, especially older ones ?
Kashiwaba Tomoe Posted June 10, 2012 Author Posted June 10, 2012 A Linux build (GNU/Linux for purists out there)
sbire Posted June 10, 2012 Posted June 10, 2012 windows games under linux... hm... sounds like a masochist i use ubuntu as second OS, i had tried to play wow with that. you need significant more resourses to play windows games under linux as they are runing as under windows. in my personal opinion, i call whine mostly whyne ;D . you can play some indie-games, most of them are running native on linux. linux are a really great to work with it. but for serious gaming... there's actually no other way, than windows. finally there's a problem to use 5.1 < sound under linux. you don't need this for work or to use musicprogramms like renoise (linux 64b native). at gaming i wan't miss this.
Kashiwaba Tomoe Posted June 10, 2012 Author Posted June 10, 2012 Ive heard differnt things about WINE, never used or researched it myself admitedly, some say it can be tweaked to work good.
LordJerle Posted June 10, 2012 Posted June 10, 2012 windows games under linux... hm... sounds like a masochist i use ubuntu as second OS' date=' i had tried to play wow with that. you need significant more resourses to play windows games under linux as they are runing as under windows. in my personal opinion, i call whine mostly whyne ;D . you can play some indie-games, most of them are running native on linux. linux are a really great to work with it. but for serious gaming... there's actually no other way, than windows. finally there's a problem to use 5.1 < sound under linux. you don't need this for work or to use musicprogramms like renoise (linux 64b native). at gaming i wan't miss this. [/quote'] I think your big problem was you played WoW. Of course it's gonna run like shit, it IS shit ) Anyway, on topic, there's a few distros floating around out there more geared towards interoptability with windows games than fedora, just gotta look for em.
prideslayer Posted June 10, 2012 Posted June 10, 2012 My protip: Don't. Don't believe the hype. Compared to Win7 (or even XP) or OSX, X11/X.Org absolutely blows as a desktop if you intend to be productive. If your idea of "using" a computer is spending hours screwing around with garbage just figuring out how to make it work, then go for it.
prideslayer Posted June 10, 2012 Posted June 10, 2012 This is a bit old.. still mostly true though, and very enlightening. The book this is from is hilarious if you're a geek. http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html
sbire Posted June 10, 2012 Posted June 10, 2012 I think your big problem was you played WoW. that was a pourposal, i tried others, too. the point in my opinion are; as linux user you should play games, which comes for linux. i like them both, Linux and Windows. Linux to work with it and Windows for my Games. @Thread Starter it will always be good to try something new and to learn some more stuff. you've never tested WINE... c'mon LET's DO THIS!
Kashiwaba Tomoe Posted June 11, 2012 Author Posted June 11, 2012 Actually, I AM considering doing it more thru a new disk partition rather than completely blanking the HD first.
Kashiwaba Tomoe Posted June 11, 2012 Author Posted June 11, 2012 As an update, still taking my time clearing space on my internal HD so I can create a partition for linux, with all the porn it's taking longer than I'd expected. On the other hand, I'm finding stuff I'd forgotten about, so it balances out.
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