Re: Best Game Distro?
Wine might be free, but after I installed Crossover World of Warcraft plays like a champ with Ubuntu 9.04. So it is still all Linux without dual boot, and I also run IE 8 and MS Office 2003 Pro. Brian On Sep 9, 2009 6:36 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: It's VERY easy to give Ubuntu a Pulsectomy. You can even graft in OSS4 if you want...not really necessary though, Alsa works fine on it's own. Right now I'm living with the Pulse weirdness in Karmic just to see if they manage to wrangle it into something useful. So far...it's like watching a train wreck and the comedic value is dropping daily...nay, hourly. Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - plug-disc...@lists.p... --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Best Game Distro?
what graphics card do you have? On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:35 AM, AZ RUNE arizona.r...@gmail.com wrote: Wine might be free, but after I installed Crossover World of Warcraft plays like a champ with Ubuntu 9.04. So it is still all Linux without dual boot, and I also run IE 8 and MS Office 2003 Pro. Brian On Sep 9, 2009 6:36 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: It's VERY easy to give Ubuntu a Pulsectomy. You can even graft in OSS4 if you want...not really necessary though, Alsa works fine on it's own. Right now I'm living with the Pulse weirdness in Karmic just to see if they manage to wrangle it into something useful. So far...it's like watching a train wreck and the comedic value is dropping daily...nay, hourly. Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - plug-disc...@lists.p... --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Best Game Distro?
Dell XPS m1730 dual nvidia 8700 in SLI On Sep 10, 2009 9:47 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: what graphics card do you have? On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:35 AM, AZ RUNE arizona.r...@gmail.com wrote: Wine might be free, but ... --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - plug-disc...@lis... -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back t... PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to c... --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Best Game Distro?
ahh... i cannot get it to work with my 2900HD something weird happens. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:02 AM, AZ RUNE arizona.r...@gmail.com wrote: Dell XPS m1730 dual nvidia 8700 in SLI On Sep 10, 2009 9:47 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: what graphics card do you have? On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:35 AM, AZ RUNE arizona.r...@gmail.com wrote: Wine might be free, but ... --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - plug-disc...@lis... -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back t... PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to c... --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Best Game Distro?
there is a fedora variant for games specifcally with a ton poacked in of all sorts.. i think it is currently FC 11 On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:20 PM, mike Enriquez myli...@cox.net wrote: I have some people looking for a Distro with some good games on it. Can anyone reccomend which linux will fit the bill. I am not a gamer so any information you send me will be all new stuff for me. Thanks Mike Enriquez --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Best Game Distro?
I believe there's also a gaming fork of Sabayon. But really, the best gaming SUPPORT is in Ubuntu overall. And it's easy to do a LiveCD re-master for a DVD install with a pile of pre-loaded games. Actually Linux Mint (a minor fork off of Ubuntu) might be a better start as it has the proprietary codec stuff already on board. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Best Game Distro?
Before you can really get a handle on that you need SOME idea of what types of games they want. If they are looking for good but simple games almost any distro that includes some would be fine. If they are looking to play things like Call of Duty, Xion, EQ2, LoTR, etc they just won't be happy. That said, the choices listed by other folks here include lots of the in between levels and some downright good stuff as well. But you really do need some clues from your friends as to what they are looking for. BTW, I play World of Warcraft. And though one can run it under WINE, it is not satisfactory for me so I have a Windows gaming machine whose primary purpose is gaming I am sorry to say. -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Best Game Distro?
Like you I have a windows gaming system as well with my dual-boot, but the media machine i have is pure Linux On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote: Before you can really get a handle on that you need SOME idea of what types of games they want. If they are looking for good but simple games almost any distro that includes some would be fine. If they are looking to play things like Call of Duty, Xion, EQ2, LoTR, etc they just won't be happy. That said, the choices listed by other folks here include lots of the in between levels and some downright good stuff as well. But you really do need some clues from your friends as to what they are looking for. BTW, I play World of Warcraft. And though one can run it under WINE, it is not satisfactory for me so I have a Windows gaming machine whose primary purpose is gaming I am sorry to say. -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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The big killer for wine games with me is pulseaudio. Support for pulse under wine is not good and that causes problems. Which means no ubuntu or fedora. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Like you I have a windows gaming system as well with my dual-boot, but the media machine i have is pure Linux On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote: Before you can really get a handle on that you need SOME idea of what types of games they want. If they are looking for good but simple games almost any distro that includes some would be fine. If they are looking to play things like Call of Duty, Xion, EQ2, LoTR, etc they just won't be happy. That said, the choices listed by other folks here include lots of the in between levels and some downright good stuff as well. But you really do need some clues from your friends as to what they are looking for. BTW, I play World of Warcraft. And though one can run it under WINE, it is not satisfactory for me so I have a Windows gaming machine whose primary purpose is gaming I am sorry to say. -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- James McPhee jmc...@gmail.com --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Best Game Distro?
It's VERY easy to give Ubuntu a Pulsectomy. You can even graft in OSS4 if you want...not really necessary though, Alsa works fine on it's own. Right now I'm living with the Pulse weirdness in Karmic just to see if they manage to wrangle it into something useful. So far...it's like watching a train wreck and the comedic value is dropping daily...nay, hourly. Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
