Linux Vs Windows

[trip69]

!(games run worse in wine vs windows)

this maybe true, but i hacked diablo ii back then to run in wine.

my friend has it on a comparable or fast machine in windows.

mine did not crash nor did i use a cd

his crashed and he had to use a cd

okay you win, windows runs games better but then for native games

my ut back in the day ran at 200 frames while my buddy under windows was at 70 frames.

so windows is better...

later dude,
i'll hack wine and ffxi to work later this week.!

[Ninjitsu]

Best O luck hacking wine to run it. Next time there is a patch, you might be hacking it again, and you could have been running it without spending so much time trying to figure out how to mod Wine to do it. Windows already works, so why resist it if you really want to play the game?

I kept going back and forth from Linux to Windows at one time, convinced that I didn't need to bother with Windows because I was able to run EQ using Winex or Wine at the time, and it ran VERY well. No crashes, no problems at all. The problem was that if I got tempted to play a new game, I would have to either fire up Windows or not be able to play the game at all. It was too much of a pain in the arse, so I gave up on running Linux as my primary OS when I quit EQ. Dual booting makes no sense if you have to keep dual booting all the time just over wanting to play a game. Everything I need to do on my hardware can be done on Windows, and only 75% of that can be accomplished on Linux in my case. I can't even print to my friggin HP D640 because there are no linux drivers, and I can't write PCL drivers on my own. Buying another printer makes no sense when Windows can print to it with no issues.

Anyway, if your kick is gaming, stick with Windows unless you are REALLY willing to make some sacrifices. The vast majority of games are games written to the DirectX API, which is proprietary M$ technology. Since they have the desktop market under their thumbs, they make the rules, and developers follow. Don't bet the farm on WineX or Wine if you are seriously into your gaming. What are you going to do if WineX doesn't play the game at all, or doesn't play it after a patch? Can you live with that? If you can't, you better brace yourself.

It really comes down to something simple for me, and I think the same logic should apply to most here.. Ask yourself... Shouldn't I be running an operating system that is best suited to my usage?

If you want to learn Linux, great, but don't try to make it your primary OS for everything and not understand what that entails. If you want to learn it, and see if it can meet your needs, and you want to dual boot, don't risk screwing up your boot record on your drive. I'd highly recommend a boot disk over modifying the boot record on your HD if you want to try it. I have had several instances where I rendered my Windows partition unbootable without some handiwork. It's easier to fix a boot floppy than a messed up boot sector on your drive.

For the record, I use Linux on my laptop exclusively at work. I do some security scanning, network equipment management, protocol analysis (sniffing), scripting (perl), simple programming, and I also enjoy the fact that I get familiarity with Unix by running Linux. I would have never been able to find my way around our AIX and HPUX systems if I didn't at least get my paws on Linux first. There is a huge amount of utilities in the open source community out there that can help you accomplish many personal or business tasks for free.

I love Linux for the aforementioned perks, but I don't really think it will fit as my primary OS for home use on my machine that I use for gaming.

[ZeroRadius]

Originally posted by Jroggy

wow i've never seen anyone say THAT before,lol i mean people say it's not that bad, it can run alot of things and so on. Usually they hate it for some reason, so they're not that enthuastic. i myself, i guess i'm one of those people, will kinda defend it but i still dislike it for various reasons.

I love it because I have mine tweaked just how I like it, also I used Aston Shell not explorer.exe . So I get performance increases and I like it better anyways, besides for a gamer Windows is the way to go. You don't like windows then go get a Mac or Linux, but don't bitch about it and still USE IT (Like some people I know). So until I get fed up with my windows NOT CRASHING (yes thats right, mine crashes maybe 2-3 times a YEAR) I am sticking with the OS I know and love.