A few questions about linux? (max ram, running games and apps etc)

[.walls]

Funnily enough I don't think the price aspect ever really got me into Linux in the first place. I started getting interested in it when I was at university (after having played around with Unix and Silicon Graphics boxes). To be honest, nobody ever paid for their software back in the day (as I'm sure most students don't nowadays too). I hadn't any intention of paying for Windows back then, so the fact that Linux was a free alternative was a moot point.

However, the fact that this OS was freely available, and could be examined by anyone that wanted to, and modified as anyone saw fit, and was easily obtainable, etc... it was those aspects that sparked my interest in it.

The fact it is free of charge is just an added bonus

very similar reasons to myself

 

[DRZ]

Maybe for some, but for me its why i want to go linux.

Because desktop/usage wise i don't mind either. I have very little intention of doing anything remotely advance so I'm not interested in the technical side of either.



Counter Strike Source and Ventrilo are the only two things stopping me just whipping vista off right now

A friend of mine has steam working under Wine. It can be done, but he's not about for me to ask how at the moment.

No idea about Ventrillo though, but I assume it should work no problems?

 

[LizardKing]

Could use teamspeak instead of Ventrillo.
I use to have a 1950pro working in Ubuntu, took a lot of different walkthroughs before it ended up working (though it was a new release of driver that got it to work in the end!)

 

[allllec]

Could use teamspeak instead of Ventrillo.
I use to have a 1950pro working in Ubuntu, took a lot of different walkthroughs before it ended up working (though it was a new release of driver that got it to work in the end!)

I would but unfortuently the server's i use are all ventrilo and some are big public ones so i can't exactly ask them to change