Agreed. Seriously guys, unless you're a complete novice (read, scared to experiment) you should be able to muddle your way through a Linux install and setup.
There are a few specialist versions of wine specifically for game players, not sure how much they're worth though. Failing that, dual boot. Lets not forget, its FREE and it doesn't crash and has an absolute mountain of free software available. Dave On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 03:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Most windows games will run under wine, which is a windows emulator. Under wine > Warcraft 3 actually runs better, you dont get any of the problems with the > sounds that you get with windows. Alternatively you can use VMWare, which sets > up a virtual PC and you can install windows on that. Then you can take a > snapshot of the windows install and if anything ever goes wrong you can go > straight back to how it was. For all your word processing etc you can use > things like open office, there are some top quality email clients like > Evolution etc etc. About the only thing that I have found Linux does not do as > good as windows is dual head setups. Plus there are tons of people on the net > that love helping newbies set up Linux. > > Quoting Jeff Oldham - bigpond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > yeah ok, but can you run all the usual stuff on linux ?....games etc ? > > > > jeff. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 12:13 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: virus, im clean > > > > > > Time to install Linux guys, then you dont have to spend half your time > > removing > > viruses and spyware, and stop doing the inevitable 6 monthly reinstall > > because > > your PC has gradually slowed to the speed of a pocket calculator. > > > > Quoting Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > I think it much more likely that your friend has spyware embedded in IE > > and > > > when you launch a "normal" site it pops up other crap. > > > > > > > Funny you say that. I sent the link from the Ozdat site (Ozdat`s site > > > > address) last Sunday to a friend, when he got the email he said a Trojan > > > was > > > > attached to it and a window popped up (Casino game) asking him for his > > > > account number. Is/was this a Trojan? Could all this trouble be from the > > > > site itself? > > > > > > > > > > > > Kris. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Cleary Signs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 9:19 AM > > > > Subject: Re: virus, im clean > > > > > > > > > > > > > i have noticed alot of websites with the trojan > > > > > > > > > > heath > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > From: "Andrew Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:30 PM > > > > > Subject: Re: virus, im clean > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Not me.I dont have a worm type virus but im sick of getting trojans. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > From: "Terry Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 5:34 PM > > > > > > Subject: RE: virus, im clean > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Trying to work out who on the list is actually infected with this > > > > virus > > > > > is > > > > > > > very difficult - here's the story for all to read. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The [EMAIL PROTECTED] worm is a Netsky variant that scans for the > > email > > > > > > > addresses on all non-CD-ROM drives on an infected computer. Then, > > the > > > > > worm > > > > > > > uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to the email addresses > > that > > > it > > > > > > > finds. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The From line of the email is spoofed, and its Subject, Message, > > and > > > > > > > Attachment vary. The attachment has a .zip extension. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > regards > > > > > > > Terry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stuey > > > > Roberts > > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, 29 June 2004 6:43 PM > > > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > Subject: virus, im clean > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > hey there guys, im protected by norton, i just did a scan and came > > up > > > > > > clean, > > > > > > > what did my last email come up with??? i dont think ihave a > > > > virus...... > > > > > > > sorry guys, but yeah... i could be wrong though..... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > SEEK: Now with over 50,000 dream jobs! 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