Man of Honour
I can't say I've ever added a suppository to a linux distro before
Took the words right out of my mouth
When did Ubuntu get so .. good?
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Took the words right out of my mouth
Soldato
I have an ATI 5870 and drivers have improved, infact the opensource driver does everything I need it to, the nvidia driver is far superior but the closed source ati drivers have improved 10 fold, just not enough to be more stable than the opensource drivers.
Soldato
Good, as soon as Unity becomes compulsory, I'm off.
Every time I settle in to a new distro, they change it so much that I lose interest.
I started off with Mandrake and I love it... Absolutely.
Then after about Mandrake 10 they lost it for me... I have tried to go back recently purely because I can get around not needing to enter the root password every 2 seconds and that for me is just taking security to paranoid levels.
I then moved to KUbuntu and I have always gone with RPM so the move to DEB was one that I didnt like ( But now love since learning apt etc ) but then WTF is this KDE 4 junk? that stupid widgets rubbish, I utterly despise it. I cant get rid of it once its menu pops up and I have tried to get by with it, but it seems to hate me.
So, then I move to gnome ( another pet hate ) and again I like Gnome now, but then unity crops up!
I have also been using Sabayon since v3.5 as my main O/S and now with v6 once it updates I now get a stupid blue background and no icons anymore, so stuff that, thats now gone too!
Whats really worrying me is that Windows 7 is flawless and Linux has done nothign but change change change and nothing is a change I like... Just as I start to like it,another change and I am sick of it.
The moment all this stupid visual crap gets compulsary is the moment I move off Linux.
I have just put MiNT 11 back onto my tester and its fine for now.
Ok I'll stop. I just want a whine.
I can't say I've ever added a suppository to a linux distro before
Like a Supository, Linux is just getting covered more and more in crap.
Soldato
Hold on, I'm seriously confused now. How can WoW performance be better when your machine has the additional overhead of having to simulate a Windows environment?
Always avoided Linux for 2 reasons, one was app compatibility in Wine, and the other was lack of game support/performance. If that's no longer the case though....
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Wine is a re-implementation of the windows api. There isn't necessarily any additional overhead. Remember this is NOT emulation. The way that windows works is not necessarily the fastest way to do a particular job.
Soldato
Pick a better distro.
I feel your pain. I loved Ubuntu around the Hardy Heron release; Fedora wasn't cutting it, I could never get OpenSUSE to behave properly and Debian was too far out-of-date for my liking. Sadly, times have changed now and the only things I really consider using are Arch, Gentoo and *BSD.
Soldato
I use Sabayon as my main *nix distro... Have done since v3.5 but v6.0 has been a bit of a bum to be honest... Not the initial install, but it does some updates which then gives me... Well I assume its unity like in Ubuntu, however, at least with ubuntu I can simply log off and change the GUI back to ubuntu classic whereas with Sabayon I cannot.
End result is that I have also moved off Sabayon now.
OpenSUSE - Do you know... I almost like SuSE... I Seriously loved it at 7.2 and I have a liking for SuSE 10 but not 11 my only issue with SuSE is that while its based on RPM, it seems to be based on its own style of RPM and that I cannot abide.
End result is that I have also moved off Sabayon now.
OpenSUSE - Do you know... I almost like SuSE... I Seriously loved it at 7.2 and I have a liking for SuSE 10 but not 11 my only issue with SuSE is that while its based on RPM, it seems to be based on its own style of RPM and that I cannot abide.
Aye it used to access the registry but doesn't any more.
Soldato
I like Ubuntu, haven't tried it in ages until a few weeks ago. However, I don't like it hanging to a command console that I have to 'exit' just to get into Linux lol.
Other than that it's very nice.
Other than that it's very nice.
Soldato
It doesnt Emulate windows at all. It uses some Windows code, but its not under emulation.
Agreed. While I have managed to get a fair chunk of apps to run under linux, its games that are my biggie... For this, I still use Windows.
There is a small repair program in there that you can run, which ... Well, repairs an install ?
This is of course handy when you move WOW to a different Drive / Foldr, but also handy for when you reinstall windows and you dont want to reinstall WOW.
Very handy when a full WOW install is so big.
You have a problem with your install then because that should not happen.
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11.10 seems ok, a few nice improvements on for Uniity and the panel, the hidden window controls seems like a silly move tho, but im sure theres a simple way to keep them showing.
Downloading the Beta2 now.
Downloading the Beta2 now.
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I'm running the beta 2. Its not too bad. The install from the beta2 cd was a bit crash-happy, but updates in the last few days have improved it a lot. Overall I'm liking it.
Soldato
Just cant get on with Uniity, seems less intuitive, Fedora 15 is where its at now, but i'm biased having been a long term RH user.
Wine - Wine Is Not an Emulator
There are quite a few older games that run better under wine than Windows, but yes for the most part wine is never going to replace a Windows install
Wine - Wine Is Not an Emulator
There are quite a few older games that run better under wine than Windows, but yes for the most part wine is never going to replace a Windows install
Just thought I'd mention Linux now has its own game client, it's still in beta but it's a step or two in the right direction
See this thread for more info / any questions
Just thought I'd mention Linux now has its own game client, it's still in beta but it's a step or two in the right direction
See this thread for more info / any questions
I just dual boot,infact you can download and install Ubuntu automatically from within Win7 and then choose which OS to boot up to when you start the PC,also you can uninstall Ubuntu via Win7,basically best of both worlds,infact typing this post on Ubuntu.
Ubuntu makes dual booting so easy since it does it automatically for you ,so even a noob can do it.