> I've had excellent luck with the latest version of wine and alot of > popular games in Linux, it's damned near native speeds too, even the > hardcore 3D stuff and of course WoW :)
>From everything I've read, a 20% performance drop is about the best case scenario with WINE. And some games that I actually play don't work at all, last I checked their compatability database (maybe it has since improved). > Personally I think keeping a winbloze box just for gaming is a little > silly. Well, there are lots of things I consider silly, like sticking to your guns to not allow binary drivers in Linux and subsequently destroying your chance at gaining any inroads into the massive gaming market. But that's just me (I know the reason for it, and I agree in principle, but I'm more realistic - Nvidia and ATI will never open source their drivers). > It's like keeping a Ford Pinto for "the gas milage" That's a *bad* idea? :) Seriously, though, it's such a flawed comparison I don't know where to start. > Get a modern linux desktop distro like Kubuntu, if you haven't tried > one lately. > Deffinetly MUCH nicer than anything M$ puts out. I tried Xubuntu a few months back. It looks pretty decent, and it's nice and responsive. I plan on using it for a desktop, if I can get the whole sharing my dual-monitor setup thing working sometime. I'll have to go see what Jason was talking about... Greg /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
