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I'm going to build a computer soon, and I'm thinking about getting linux so I don't have to buy windows again(I don't have my copy anymore). Is this a good idea?
I have a "Learn Linux" guide from their website open in a tab and set aside.. but I want to hear from someone before I read it. I figure I ought to read it anyways since I'm going for a computer programming degree soon.
Can I install it on a freshly built computer? Do I need to install hardware in some form of accordance with linux that would differ if I were to use windows?
I've heard about it not being compatible with some software and games. To what extent? Can I still play steam games? Eve online?
Anything else I will need to know?
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I'm pretty sure Linux+Games=no, but nice sig stealth wrote:My favorite quote from that entire thing: "..Battles based on battles that actually occurred in Japanese history.. So here's this giant enemy crab.." 
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Linux+Games=maybe I would download an Ubuntu or Mandriva ISO and make sure you have a bootable installer disk first. Once you've got that it should be easy to install unless you have some weird obscure piece of hardware. Why don't you use juarez teh window and dual-boot Linux on a another partition? That way when you run into a game that won't work you can just reboot. Which reminds me, go check out Cedega/Wine/whatever it's called - it's a reversed engineered Windows API dealy so you can run windows games and shit inside Linux even if there isn't a native Linux version. Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.  
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Dick Cheney's Mechanical Heart wrote:Linux+Games=maybe
I would download an Ubuntu or Mandriva ISO and make sure you have a bootable installer disk first. Once you've got that it should be easy to install unless you have some weird obscure piece of hardware.
Why don't you use juarez teh window and dual-boot Linux on a another partition? That way when you run into a game that won't work you can just reboot. Which reminds me, go check out Cedega/Wine/whatever it's called - it's a reversed engineered Windows API dealy so you can run windows games and shit inside Linux even if there isn't a native Linux version.
Cedega works well, i run a gentoo linux box, it has a pretty interface windows like interface, and you can easily switch between source, and desktop. so you can ween yerself away from the usual point and click.
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Apollo wrote:I'm pretty sure Linux+Games=no, but nice sig No, it works with a lot of games, just that it's freeware thus it doesn't work with new games unless you update it. I'm going to get Ubuntu, which has a big community, thus it's updated a lot. I know for a fact that it can at least run HL2 so it should be able to run most steam games (I'm quitting MMORPGs for a while, when TF2 and Portal comes out I'll play them, then I can play with you guys again). I might do a dual boot, but I still don't want to pay a hundred bucks for windows, so I might get windows 2000 or windows server 2k3 (it runs games hella good) All I need to do is figure out how to dual boot, which my friend's dad is going to show me.
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