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Hitman
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https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
Shipped to your house, free!
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Hero
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Or you could just burn a copy and not wait.
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Phox
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Do things actually work on ubuntu? Like, games, programs, ATI video cards, etc?
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Hero
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Pho/x/ wrote: | | Do things actually work on ubuntu? Like, games, programs, ATI video cards, etc? |
Its like linux so I guess wine right? As for drivers, I'm positive they aren't optimized like the ones for windows as they are for gaming.
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gogodr
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Pho/x/ wrote: | | Do things actually work on ubuntu? Like, games, programs, ATI video cards, etc? |
Half of the things does. most of them do nothing.
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Shota
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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ATI drivers for 5x and 4x series are supported, although NVidia does it better at that point, but who gives a shit.
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>Linux
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If games you mean Touhou games with Wine, then yes. there might be eventually Steam for Linux
Don't expect any DirectX emulated games
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Shota wrote: | ATI drivers for 5x and 4x series are supported, although NVidia does it better at that point, but who gives a shit.
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If games you mean Touhou games with Wine, then yes. there might be eventually Steam for Linux
Don't expect any DirectX emulated games |
this
linux uses openGL
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Cryoma
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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Linux is like mac, your gaming area is limited to games made for linux.
Wheres all games mad for mac or linux are also made for windows.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Pretty sure WINE provides a DirectX wrapper, at least for older versions
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shitposter
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 12:35 am Post subject: |
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| Don't bother getting any kind of linux for gaming.
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BreakinGods
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:43 am Post subject: |
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| I don't plan on switching to linux till I am completely out of my game stage. I like the way it works and I have a lot of skill with the terminal.
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Karakawe
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Sonitus Vir wrote: | | Don't bother getting any kind of linux for gaming. |
It's not impossible to play games on Linux.
| Stone wrote: | Linux is like mac, your gaming area is limited to games made for linux.
Wheres all games mad for mac or linux are also made for windows. |
Not really true. Given proper installation of video drivers, lots of newer games are more than playable using Wine.
This forum really isn't for Linux-recon I suppose. Don't expect much.
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BreakinGods
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Karakawe wrote: | | Sonitus Vir wrote: | | Don't bother getting any kind of linux for gaming. |
It's not impossible to play games on Linux.
| Stone wrote: | Linux is like mac, your gaming area is limited to games made for linux.
Wheres all games mad for mac or linux are also made for windows. |
Not really true. Given proper installation of video drivers, lots of newer games are more than playable using Wine.
This forum really isn't for Linux-recon I suppose. Don't expect much. |
Wine is no where near as good as using virtualbox on Linux and just running Windows through that. Also bootcamp on macs allow you to do the same thing. I know that then you aren't truly running the Linux OS but you could use a virtual OS to run those games if you really NEED it.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:40 am Post subject: |
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| Linux is pretty cool but you'd be best to dual boot Windows. It's not impossible to run games on Linux but it's rarely worth the hassle.
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Uzeil
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:13 am Post subject: |
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| Dataflashsabot wrote: | | Linux is pretty cool but you'd be best to dual boot Windows. It's not impossible to run games on Linux but it's rarely worth the hassle. |
Exactly this.
If you want to see if a game will work on linux, you can usually find out(and find out how much of a hassle it will be if it's going to be one) by going to winehq, and go to the Apps DB. Otherwise just google it. I managed to get a good number of games working before installing a fourth linux OS that fucked up on it's bootloader, and I haven't gone back to fix it  (That or it corrupted the boot sequences of all the others, in which case I'm going to be pretty irritated... took a while to get them all set up >_> )
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