Well, Never Winter nights at least is available in linux native
excutable form.
-Mike
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 15:31, Lord Ogier de Corbeil wrote:
> I play the following:
>
> Battlefield II
> Dungeon Seige II
> GTA: San Andreas - Yes, I have the hot coffee patch and No, it really
> isn't all that special...
> Never Winter Nights
> F.E.A.R.
>
> I also use the Adobe stuff as well as MS Office a lot.
>
> I will make the switch in a hot minute though if I can continue to
> play my games. :)
>
> Ron
>
> On 11/22/05, Max Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, all those package managers you mention are front ends for
> apt, which is itself a front end for
> dpkg. They can be used interchangeably, just not at the same
> time (since apt only likes to have one
> process going at once).
>
> Ubuntu has a very active, helpful, large community of users
> and its forums contain how-tos for
> everything under the (fluorescent lamp). Including Wine/Cedega
> for games. What games are you looking
> to play? Lots of them work fine, some of them work with hacks,
> some don't work at all. Some games
> are even available in native Linux binaries, depending on the
> genres you like (Enemy Territory, UT
> all flavors, Doom 3 come to mind)
>
> -Max
>
>
> Rob Hudson wrote:
> > I give Ubuntu a +1 also.
> >
> > I haven't used it enough to know... can you use apt-get and
> (synaptic or
> > kynaptic or kpackage) interchangeably?
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >> Ubuntu++
> >>
> >> The only Linux distribution I can stand. And yes, Fedora
> Core and Ubuntu
> >> look a lot similar, but in my opinion that's where the
> similarities stop.
> >> Ubuntu is actually usable as a desktop system.
> >>
> >> /jgw
> >>
> >>
> >>> Lord Ogier de Corbeil wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> What I want is a good solid GUI - desktop environment
> that I can count
> >>>> on.
> >>>
> >>> I have Ubuntu running on two laptops. I am impressed by
> it. I don't
> >>> know how it does with Windows games, though.
> >>>
> >>> Reasons Ubuntu impresses me:
> >>>
> >>> hardware support out of the box
> >>> very little cmd line configuration needed
> >>> good security update mechanism
> >>> good documentation
> >>> focus on usability
> >>>
> >>> I'm actually using Kubuntu, which is Ubuntu +
> KDE. Kubuntu is not as
> >>> polished as Ubuntu.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Bob Miller K<bob>
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