I am doing it I finally have had enough

[minmal 0]

Goooood bye windows Linux here i come.

It is finally time for me to give up my games. take my gaming life into my own hands and battle with wine. This will be one of the biggest challenges i will ever face in my hole life

I have no idea how i will fair minimum of 3 days no real gaming maybe some online poker if lucky

It has been a good 12 years since i started gaming and along the way i have learned more then i ever wanted to. but finally i have given into the good side (i play eq2 and play an evil toon.)

I will be trying to battle my way through the world of open source as a main platform for all my computing needs (i need direct X).
So i can play my games with out the Microsoft profit designed interruptions that drive us all up the wall.

Linux seem the only real choice left and to keep it here we will need to support it.

hope to be back after i am committed to the open source world and can gnu my way through life


PS if any other open source user trawl here feel free to add your 2 cents worth

[jjiimmyyt 0]

You can still do some gaming on Linux, here is a good place to start for you http://www.eq2flames.com/general-gameplay/20863-eq2-ubuntu.html

"This isn't an iron lung, people. You can actually disconnect and not die." -Dave

[Cineo 0]

You could just do what I did...I sold my EQ2 toon for skydiving money...I sold my toon for enough money to take my AFF 1 and haven't looked back sense. I still occasionaly play some games but most of my time is taken up by work/school/skydiving/partying. Good Luck.

[piratemike 0]

So you can actually game on linux. Depending on what you'd like to run, it can be easy or hard.

Actually, my linux laptop runs dune 2000 better in linux than any other machine I own.
Things like WoW are possible, but difficult to run.

I have two machines at home. 1 windows machine for WoW, and everything else runs linux.
My work machines are all linux. They have been for years.

I must admit, if your just switching cold turkey, it's going to be hard. But your life will probably be better because of it.

So what distro are you starting with?

[minmal 0]

i will be running fedora 8 at first with a change to Debian if i don't like yum. theres some thing about atp-get i have always liked

the main reason i am worried about this change is media play back i know it has come along way since i my last linux box

that i did remote x so i could use it to do what i could and my windows box for games from here on in no more windows

[minmal 0]

just thought i would put an update here

i am now running Ubuntu gutsy and loving it

install as was expected not that easy

but so far happy with it havent played any 3d games yets as i have been setting it up

i am currently install counter strike source and will have that running tonight


looks like microsoft shares went down again today

will post some tech info after i have played a few rounds

[DontPanic 0]

I've been spending most of my time in Linux for about two years now. But I usually keep XP on one of my partitions for those things that need Windows.

If you've got the space, you may want to break your hard disk into a couple of partitions so you can try out other versions of Linux.

Even if I like the distro I'm currently using, I'll often learn something by playing around with another linux distro, and then incorporate that feature into my favored linux installation if I can.

Especially if your going to play around with getting Windows programs to run on Linux. You may find another distro that gets all that going out-of-the-box, and you can see how they set it up.

[dannydan 5]

hmmmmmm!!! Maybe I will bash a linux instead of Smudgows for my NEW BUILD finished sometime this summer... I have been reading through linuxdotcom and just starting to read through distrowatch..... Interesting very interesting reads

do any of yazz have a preference for noob? One that is novice but challenging w/o being overwelhming...