Neverwinter Nights has native Linux support. Battlefield II is splashed all over the latest Cedega
press releases, so I assume it works pretty well. Check out www.transgaming.com for a list of games
supported by the Cedega libraries (a gui wrapper around Wine, more or less). Cedega isn't free but
it's only $15 for access to their download site, and for a lot of games it seems to be a great solution.
For Adobe/Office, go with the CrossoverOffice product, which is about $60 IIRC. Their number one
goal is to support these apps and to the best of my knowledge they've succeeded.
So, basically, you can pay much much less than a Windows license, to get some commercial support for
your Windows apps on Linux... Basic Windows apps tend to run out of the box with Wine, too.
-Max
Lord Ogier de Corbeil wrote:
I play the following:
Battlefield II
Dungeon Seige II
GTA: San Andreas - Yes, I have the hot coffee patch and No, it really
isn't all that special...
Never Winter Nights
F.E.A.R.
I also use the Adobe stuff as well as MS Office a lot.
I will make the switch in a hot minute though if I can continue to play
my games. :)
Ron
On 11/22/05, *Max Lemieux* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Yes, all those package managers you mention are front ends for apt,
which is itself a front end for
dpkg. They can be used interchangeably, just not at the same time
(since apt only likes to have one
process going at once).
Ubuntu has a very active, helpful, large community of users and its
forums contain how-tos for
everything under the (fluorescent lamp). Including Wine/Cedega for
games. What games are you looking
to play? Lots of them work fine, some of them work with hacks, some
don't work at all. Some games
are even available in native Linux binaries, depending on the genres
you like (Enemy Territory, UT
all flavors, Doom 3 come to mind)
-Max
Rob Hudson wrote:
> I give Ubuntu a +1 also.
>
> I haven't used it enough to know... can you use apt-get and
(synaptic or
> kynaptic or kpackage) interchangeably?
>
> -Rob
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Ubuntu++
>>
>> The only Linux distribution I can stand. And yes, Fedora Core
and Ubuntu
>> look a lot similar, but in my opinion that's where the
similarities stop.
>> Ubuntu is actually usable as a desktop system.
>>
>> /jgw
>>
>>
>>> Lord Ogier de Corbeil wrote:
>>>
>>>> What I want is a good solid GUI - desktop environment that I
can count
>>>> on.
>>>
>>> I have Ubuntu running on two laptops. I am impressed by it. I
don't
>>> know how it does with Windows games, though.
>>>
>>> Reasons Ubuntu impresses me:
>>>
>>> hardware support out of the box
>>> very little cmd line configuration needed
>>> good security update mechanism
>>> good documentation
>>> focus on usability
>>>
>>> I'm actually using Kubuntu, which is Ubuntu + KDE. Kubuntu is
not as
>>> polished as Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bob Miller K<bob>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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