Good nix for gaming?
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For performance, go Gentoo. You'll have to learn how to optimize things from the ground up, like what gcc flags to use, etc, but the payoff is great. Not that I have any benchies to back it up.
Ease of use? Try Xandros (or whatever it's called). Looks/feels exactly like windows. Fedora(Red Hat) and SuSE are also easy to install/use. In the end, once you have an operating linux, you can install Gnome or KDE, and you have a very wondows-like environment.
Beyond Linux, there's not much as far as games go. Minix, BSD, GNU-kernel don't have any real support, although Quake runs in Be
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If you're trying out Q3 engine games, you'll be surprised. Q3 runs faster in Linux (as if anyone cares) than in windows. I think the same is true for UT03/04, but they lack somethings available in D3D.
Ease of use? Try Xandros (or whatever it's called). Looks/feels exactly like windows. Fedora(Red Hat) and SuSE are also easy to install/use. In the end, once you have an operating linux, you can install Gnome or KDE, and you have a very wondows-like environment.
Beyond Linux, there's not much as far as games go. Minix, BSD, GNU-kernel don't have any real support, although Quake runs in Be
.If you're trying out Q3 engine games, you'll be surprised. Q3 runs faster in Linux (as if anyone cares) than in windows. I think the same is true for UT03/04, but they lack somethings available in D3D.
ubuntu
I installed it in about an hour on my laptop, runs great, and got drivers working in no time (check the forums for HOW-TOs on everything). And Gentoo is for people who have three days to get their system up and running in the first place.
If you want to be a True Master, you run Slackware. But then everybody looks at you funny.
I installed it in about an hour on my laptop, runs great, and got drivers working in no time (check the forums for HOW-TOs on everything). And Gentoo is for people who have three days to get their system up and running in the first place.
If you want to be a True Master, you run Slackware. But then everybody looks at you funny.
Whats wrong (or right?) with slackware?The Baron said:ubuntu
I installed it in about an hour on my laptop, runs great, and got drivers working in no time (check the forums for HOW-TOs on everything). And Gentoo is for people who have three days to get their system up and running in the first place.
If you want to be a True Master, you run Slackware. But then everybody looks at you funny.
No package management. No apt-get, rpm, emerge, anything like that. It's compile from source to the max, baby.radeonic2 said:
Don't do it unless you're hardcore. I started using it when the only way to install Linux was from floppies. Red Hat/Debian/et al didn't exist yet. Package management was a pipe dream. But, since I installed Ubuntu on my laptop, I've gotten quite used to aptitude.
radeonic2 said:
Code:
wget <file>
tar -xcf <file>.tar.gz
./configure
make installBut meh, if you just wanna run a few games, any of the other distros mentioned in this thread is just fine.
How's it compare to ubuntu,?silence said:
I havent burned it so you still have time
basically.... it you can go for eval of full SuSe or go for fully Open Source without these 4 programs.... that you can DL anyway for free.....
i tried SuSe 10 while it was RC beta and i really liked what i saw.... that YaST is great tool and i easy to use.....
now i DLed final version and i gonna install it this week.... (i need a friend to fix some issues with my modem so i can access net while using Linux, no need to say that my bloodsucking ISP tech support has no idea how to do it
)
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on winblows?as i said, i tried SuSe 10 and i was amazed how fast i could find everything i needed....
its much bigger DL then ubuntu, but you dont have to install every single package
also... there is kubuntu using KDE desktop.
http://www.kubuntu.org/
its much bigger DL then ubuntu, but you dont have to install every single package
also... there is kubuntu using KDE desktop.
http://www.kubuntu.org/
Have tried SUSE and always enjoyed it. I kinda used Debian but progress is rather slow since they really make sure they iron out the bugs and so on. Gentoo seems like it will be a tough one but there is excellent docs out there. So if I get a brand new Athlon multicore desktop I would definitely try out Gentoo...and thats about it.
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