Why Linux is better

When linux plays the games I want to play I will switch to it. Windows 7 is the choice for gamers.

Steam
Sins of a Solar Empire
Sims 3
Mass Effect 2
World of Warcraft
X3 Terran Conflict

Just a few of the games i'm currently playing that work flawlessly in Windows.

You know nothing about your own computer, so I advise avoiding suggesting technical issues to others.

Didn't mean to troll here guys. I work with Linux (the fact that I capitalized shows I've gains some respect for it) but It's been a buggy kernel in my experience.

Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc. are more refined.

Absolutely. Funny thing is, most of these games are developed on Linux boxes. But it's easy enough to dual boot.

Personally, I have two hard drives, one with W7 (which pisses me off, but has my games on it), and the other with Linux (which makes me smile and does everything else I need).

Not exacly..and windows is still far easier to use in every way then linux.Especially if your not tech savy then stay away from linux.Everything just takes to much time to work in linux,while most hardware,software is not compatible. and will takes ages to work correctly.

It's a work-in-progress, but it is vastly improved from only a few years ago. I remember when virtually nothing worked in Linux, but these days I have very few problems with Linux. Whereas Windows seems to give me more problems as the year goes by.

World of Warcraft runs quite well on Wine. It is based on OpenGL iirc. I ran it on Linux along side a private Mangos server.

Depending on what video card you have Wine works quite well for most DirectX games. I ran EvE on it and is one extremely graphically intense game. However the ATI driver for X could not compete with the Windows driver when it came to running two instances of EvE simultaneously. But that is more than likely a driver issue and intentional to make MS happy.

see [link to appdb.winehq.org] for compatible apps.

Yes, if you are after easy usage, then Macs will do do the job better than Windows. Admittedly, a lot of folk only need an email client, a web browser, and maybe a chat program. But they are exactly what Windows and Macs are aimed at.

For a computer professional, you can't go far wrong with Linux.

I have a lot of respect for OpenSUSE, but I switched from that (for everyday use) to Ubuntu/Debian. Whereas for a web server, it has to be CentOS for me.

OP I will agree with you that in the area of smartphones Android is an awesome java based? linux based OS.

I have dual booted in the past and used Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, and a few other distros.

What tends to happen though is I eventually just go back to single boot Windows OS. The reason for this is beyond actually browsing the internet I don't have alot of uses for a Linux box. I will say if you just want to browse the internet and such and are a casual smartphone type user then you wont have much problems substituting Ubuntu for Windows.

But as I said for gamers, espcially gamers with soundblaster cards (soundblaster doesn't do drivers for linux :( )

Windows is the best bet.

What distro do you currently run?

That's the beauty of the Linux kernel! You can customize it to your own needs but you can also break it.

If all Linux kernels were buggy Google would not have chosen it for the Android phone and there wouldn't be any Enterprise GNU/Linux distributions like CentOS, Redhat, etc.

By the way, if anyone knows how to debug a kernel boot-up on Android please PM me. ;)

Now, if we can get Linux sound working on notebooks and switch off "are you sure" everywhere world domination is guaranteed.

BTW thx for the headsup on UAC

Wish it was that easy to disable it on emacs!!

wtf a fucking computer asking a human are you sure

WINE is cool, and it's getting better every day. Mind, I only use it for PasswordSafe.

While Linux is great (mostly), as long as it's game support is zip, I'm sticking with Windows. Solaris is a more stable kernel, but the source code is released publicly and that does not bode well for system security.

Linux kinda sucks, I used it for to many years, linux configuration is the pits!

Mac OS X is the best operating system on the planet!

Yep but macs are Way to expensive.And i never buy brand pc's btw,only build my own,and since i play many games unsupported buy linux,it would be a waste to dual boot it since i mostly would be in windows anyways.

Yeah but it runs MUCH better in windows as do almost all games.I dual boot Ubuntu and have for years but to be honest I hardly ever use it anymore.Windows 7 64bit is really a fine OS.

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I also like to dabble in 3ds Max, Have the Cyberlink Media Suite and run Adobe Master Collection CS4. Cannon Printer, Fraps, Acid Music Studio, Itunes...

I couldn't even get a desktop shortcut once for firefox on linux and it just frustrated the hell out of me.

For day to day stuff I use Ubuntu, but I also have use for CentOS for my development webserver. I have used RedHat, but that was years ago, same with openSUSE (but a bit more recent).

Thing I really love about Linux is the massive expanse of 3rd-party software available at the click of a button/type of an apt-get.

Not yet used Android, but I hear it's pretty much a dumbed down version of Linux, which is shame. Maybe one day I'll get to try it out, who knows?

Two hard drives, no manual partitioning, makes life much easier.

what are you talking about? i don't have to sit there for 3 minutes typing commands into a terminal just so i can do the things i need.

Linux is a security nightmare.

That's one of the reason im staying away from lunix,Many of my hw was not supported,cam didnt work,soundcard didnt work,could install Half of my mobo drivers for some reason,had weird gpu problem that my drivers would uninstall at every reboot,couldnt install many games i play alot..so yeah..it was a few days of big irritation and didnt know how quick to go back to win7 64bit,

I'm going to have to agree that MAC OSX is good shit. Configuration files could be a little more traditional UNIX though. At least Netinfo is gone!

Try out Win 7 using boot camp for computer games. Quite functional on my macbook pro.

Forgot to mention that I have Adobe CS5 and Lightroom.Not sure if there are Linux versions and you CAN use Gimp or something like it but ain't worth the effort for me at least.

Absolutely, I hate Macs, they suck really bad, but I see the reasons for them.

Thing is, I use Linux a lot in my work, and it gives me much greater control over my environment that windows or Macs could ever hope to achieve.

The more you use Linux, the more you understand. I knew I had to learn it, and the only way is to use it, day in day out. And I tell you what, I've never looked back!

LOL! That is just awesome.

Um, in Windows you can put an icon on the desktop so if you want to pull up a program you don't have to go directory by directory until you find it. Linux sounds like DOS 1.

I dont fool with wine. I just run XP under a VM. Its great!

Look, maybe you need to just spend a bit more time learning the OS before dissing it.