Re: Ubuntu revisited
 

Ok installed the opengl and it gave me 3d but wasnt right. You were correct shutting down compiz does appear to sort it so its now usable for what I want. I will be doing a read up for WINE to see if I can actually game on it (not holding out to much hope but its just extending my experiement) Have to say its been a lot more successful than ever before still a few visits to Terminal but with help its proved doable. Guess my view on Linux on a basic machine nearly out of the box for an average user is now a possibility

Re: Ubuntu revisited
 

Aint that the tooth;)

Almost forgot...you might find this handy
http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/download3.html

Re: Ubuntu revisited
 

Xpod gas been nominated for one of these.
http://incognitas.ghotihosted.com/Monkeybreath.jpg

in my opinoin the whole thread deserves this

[img]Download Failed (1)[/img]

to be shared between all those who gave such helpful advice in this thread.

Let's see more threads like this folks..

Re: Ubuntu revisited
 

lol....nobody liked to mention Linux before now in case zing zapped them with that flame thrower of his.

I jest...:angel:

Re: Ubuntu revisited
 

now now I have no influence here :D

Re: Ubuntu revisited
 

Indeed, now that we've completely converted zing and persuaded him to move entirely away from the evil Windows and over to the most righteous and holy Linux we should actually be able to have a decent conversation about Linux without getting lambasted :Yes:


:jk:

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I'll remember you said that :D

Re: Ubuntu revisited
 

games are the only reason I have XP on my home machine. Missus is as happy as me using Firefox and thunderbird in Linux, as she was in XP. I doubt she knows or case what Linux we use, which some might say is how it should be ;)

But if I got rid of Xp all together she'd be annoyed at not being able to play Sims 2 or Bioshock. I've read World of Warcraft is very playable in Linux using Wine, and a friend plays GTA 3 in Wine, but I'm not sure about many more recent games, I think it's the DirectX speed which is the problem.

it's a bit old now, but a friend recently got Prey for Linux, from what he said getting it to run is much like Quake and other old id games were under Unix variants, i.e. you buy the PC version, copy the files you need off the CD, dl the appropriate Linux files, and you're away.

http://2dboy.com/games.php
World of Goo has a Linux version available, it's good fun.

wine in general is very useful, I use it for apps like digiguide, where there isn't a Linux equivalent. Digiguide's own site even suggests Linux users use wine and tell you what you need to do to run it.

Apart from games, the only other MS Windows apps I think that struggle with Linux under wine are things like software for pdas and phones. But there's a fair few mp3 programs which I'm told act similarly to itunes. I've never used itunes so I wouldn't know how close they are but amarok is popular.

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Just found this, doesn't look like you'd be playing Crysis in Ubuntu
http://appdb.winehq.org/appbrowse.php?catId=2