On the gaming front, there may be good news soon. http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/
Steam has been working on their SteamOS for a while, which is a Linux distro customized for gaming. Many games that are DirectX-only aren't going to run, but many OpenGL and other types will. Chris On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Jonathan Sheehan < jonathan.shee...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Bobby Sanders <ssand...@ssvzc.com> wrote: > > I live in Texas. I have a friend in Brownsville, TN, who is disabled and > > wants to run Linux on his computer. He uses his computer mostly for > gaming > > and browsing. He is currently running a Windows platform. > > One more point- depending on what you mean by "gaming." Have you > already discussed with him that his Windows games may not run on > Linux? He may enjoy learning TuxRacer and NetHack, or he may be > disappointed if his favorite game is, say, Microsoft Baseball. :-) > > Good luck! > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
