foolish curiosity.
What can I say, after joining team ipx I learned that many of our
members are linux users, so having never seen or used linux myself
I became quite curious as to why people would choose linux over
a windows client. Well one week, three distributions and a non stop
riot of a headache I still don’t understand why people choose to
use linux over a windows client.
However I would like to whole heartedly thank ltmon for spending
most of this evening trying to help me get Quake Wars working on
my Fedora distro.
After my net connection died and I couldn’t ask Ltmon for more
help I gave up on Fedora and re installed Sabayon, I figured that
if I couldn’t play games on linux I would at least install something
that looks hot, and I could slowly learn to use, Sabayon being
built from the Gentoo architecture. (and still play as my second
sata drive has a minimal version of windows installed on it).
Well thirty minutes later I had a smashing new version of linux
installed and once again my curiosity got the better of me, “hey
why not give Quake Wars a go with this distro?”. As soon as the
installation was complete I had the terminal up and ready to watch
the log fill with endless errors and such. It started without a
problem, after going through hell trying to get it to work on the
other one! But not only did it work it was awesome, truly awesome!
The loading times were great, the sound crystal clear and the
graphics totally seemless. The game runs %100 better on Sabayon
than it ever did on windows.
Well there’s my two cents. Res
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There's your ad for linux
100% better than it ran on windows – now that’s the ad. Forget the trouble you went through to get there – if ET:QW runs better I’m guessing there’s a few more windows users that would consider the jump. Sounds like you’ll have learned a lot out of this.
What kind of hardware are you running on?
So glad you got it going...
Sabayon sounds like a great distro. It’s seen to be “Not newbie friendly”, but it seems that for you it’ s been the friendliest of all.
Looking forward to seeing you online with ET:QW.
L.
Good stuff!
Sabayon is nice in that it takes the power and configurability of Gentoo and automates much of it for you. The base system for Sabayon also includes KDE by default, rather than having to treat it like an extra (saves you from spending too long on the CLI). Plus you get Portage, which will sort out packages, dependencies and upgrades like the good little package manager it is.
Now, is Sha8dow going to take the plunge?
Shortcut to start ET:QW
1. Create a new file, name it “Enemy Territory: Quake Wars” (or whatever)
2. Put the following in it:
Save, quit, and you’re good to go (i.e. double-click on it).
This is just the manual way of doing (in KDE) “Right click” -> “Create new” -> “Link to application”.
Linux is good in theory. I
Linux is good in theory. I like the idea of it, and the price is right.. Its just the hassle.. Windows can be a hassle enough sometimes, but when you get things ironed out, its fine.. Linux is the same, I believe, in both areas, to more of an extent.. As in, Linux is more of a hassle to get things to work in the first place, but once you get things ironed out with Linux, the results seem better then with a Windows system.. I think its system resources? Thats a problem with Longhorn ( aka Vista), its heavy on system resources, leaving not as much left over for gaming as XP did, and far less then linux =)
I will give it a go again sometime in the near future, aslong as this time the partition issues can be worked out, and I can have windows and linux both running fine on the one system.. For some reason I think linux (kubuntu) doesnt like windows to be installed on the main(first?) partition, it wants that place instead..
Ahh… its good in theory.. And the price is right!!
Hashy.
linux sales pitch.
HaHa, I don’t think I will ever forget the pain and suffering Linux
happily showed me. I have learned heaps thanks primarily to the
kind people who have sacrificed much of their time to help me.
But yeah, I have always been a windows user, 3.1 to xp, and I
always made tweaks to the system to get the maximum out of
3d application, so when a base install of linux blows the windows
performance clean out of the water I was / am wowed!
Hardware :
Pentium 4 2.4GHz | 1GB generic RAM 800MHz FSB
SoundBlaster Live Digital 5.1 | Nvidia 6800GT 128MB
2x SATA generic 120GB Drives – not set in array
in debt.
Thanks a million for last night mate. When I dropped into
Terminal last night and ran the driver it said that I needed
“gcc” installed and “cc” in my root. I reloaded X and used
yum to find the latest package of gcc, it and all of it’s attachments
started to download, about halfway through my whole system
locked up and was never the same again.
And yups woot for playing Quake Wars!
an icon.
ltmon
Awesome thanks mate, I will copy and paste this into
my reference doc for future “God damn it, no icon again!”
Linux is Fun
Windows is there to show why Linux is so much fun, n0 Blue Screens Of Death, n0 Magic Resets and n0 Unknown Freezes. I can’t wait to get my new system so I can finally run ET:QW under Linux were it belongs. I also wanted to mention Mandriva 2008 but you guys are probably sick of my talking about it …
I think the choice of distros is on big strenght
Some find it confusing, but the fact that Fedora (a distro that is very popular) was crap for Deviance and another less popular distro worked much better just shows that “one size fits all” is not a good model for computing. Unfortunately Microsoft have always set out to destroy their competition and make it “one size fits all — our size”.
I’m just glad there is now a reasonable choice available and companies like ID and SplashDamage are supporting that choice.
(p.s. You Microsofties should be glad too — what do you think keeps the price of Windows from topping $1k ;)
err...
Hold on a second… windows costs money? :)
umm....
yeah… I didn’t know windoze cost money! I’ve had about 10 different versions of it (since 3.11) and I have yet to pay for it….
This linux idea is spreading…. interesting….. Might be worth a look on my new system (in the back corner of course!).
Sounds like you’ve been through the wars, but a good framerate is quite the reward =)
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