Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-10 Thread AZ RUNE
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

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Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-10 Thread Stephen
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

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Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-10 Thread AZ RUNE
Dell XPS m1730 dual nvidia 8700 in SLI

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what graphics card do you have?

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Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-10 Thread Stephen
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

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Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-09 Thread Stephen
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
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Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-09 Thread Jim March
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.
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Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-09 Thread Dazed_75
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.

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Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-09 Thread Stephen
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.

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Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-09 Thread James Mcphee
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.
 
  --
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 occasions,
  that I wish it always to be kept alive.
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Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-09 Thread Jim March
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
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