fangyongren

The 5200 has a dvi out which is ually very important to me. More monitors the better ^_^ Really I can not suggest one card over another to you. I do not know what your looking for in a card. When you say 'best' hmm that is a point of view. Mabye 'best' for me requires a dvi output and in that case it would be the 5200. Or mabye I need OpenGL 1.5 not 1.4 in that case it would be the 5500. I would say if I was looking for a pci graphic card I be looking for the cheapest one. because well they would all be doing the same thing for me. In CLI or in Runescape, nothing big there.

Will it really make a difference on his system rescources though? I am not really sure on this matter too much though. Prostar just in general when you ask people for help usally post your system specs or at least your proc. and motherboard. Mabye sure you have unesential programs turned off in the backround. If your trying to umm mabye like encode some video files for you to make a home dvd then hey my proccesser would be working its little heart out ^_^ However ill asume your doing nothing like that and I have no idea how much proccessing power runescape takes but for me personally running 2.4 ghz Well with firefox just doing its thing around 20-30% cpu and when I play runescape it was 70-100% I did not see anything happen though. I will install sun java and see what kind of proccessing I get with IE and see how that goes ^_^

Not many distros come close to being like Windows and the distros that do come close are not very popular. When people ask what type of distro should they use those type of distros do not really show up. People that just want a windows look alike because of benefit of it being free or cheap in comparision to windows then they will go to distros like lindows (sorry forgot the new name since Microsoft is sue happy) because that is what they are looking for. And mabye down the line there will be a distro that will appaise those people needs, but I do not care how much a distro fells and looks like windows you really still need to consult to people that know something about that distro if you need help or learn about that distro and/or learn about linux. I do not think it is unfortenent that there are distros that are like windows those are just distros that appease a certian cunsomer. And Linux will never be like windows ^_^ there may be distros, but never linux I went to a Linux Kernel based distro because one it was cheap and I wanted control over my system. I did not say gosh dang Microsoft how can I stick it to them. I found Gentoo and Slackware because that is what I was looking for. And hopefully there will be a larger community that is looking for an alternative to windows. Mainly going to Linux/Unix/FreeBSD instead of MAC ^_^ Na IM just kidding Mac Computers are pretty cool, espcially the ones with OSX. Oh and with Wine I really never got into it. Older versions simply sucked and never got into it. Not sure how good it is now but I rather not go back I learned to just look for alternatives rather then saying, "How can I make this Windows based program work on Linux?" I give up many games with linux too, even ported ones like UT2004 I just can not get those graphic settings correct to get a smooth game going.

OK I did not read through all the post because well I did not fell like it so sorry if I repeat someone. I noticed people are calling linux an operating system and well there is this big debate over if you can call it an operating system. And well I do not want to get into that. Just please remeber when you refer to linux you are refering to the kernel not this distro and that type of thing. Depending on the distro a lot of things can change. If you are asking help with the linux usally people ask you what distro you are using because well it is very important and makes a huge difference. So please just be carefull and if you need help with Linux usally always refer to the distro unless umm you are messing with the Linux kernel itself, perhaps modifying it for you skilled ones ^_^ Also, I saw the question about software running on linux from windows. A lot of windows software has not been ported to Linux distros. Which in some ways is bad and some ways is good. Bad because it puts you in unfimilar grounds. Good because you learn new things. For every program I used on Windows there was a ported version or an alternative that I would consider equally good. Like for Photoshop, Gimp rules and for IE (ack if anyone still uses that B.S.) there is FireFox and Conquer. With any distro of linux I consider better then windows. You have so much more control over your system and my gosh the permission just rock and the flexibilty. Try setting a file in one folder to only let people on your local system but say mabye only your parents but not your sister see and yet not password protect and in the same folder let everyone in the world potitely see another file. Just simply hands down when it comes to cli (command line interface) and permission linux just owns windows. The following statement is true. The previous statement is false. 60% of all statistics are made up 90% of the time I just love those lines. The first one with the implication that is only false when the first statement is true and yet the implication is true whenever the first statement is false just love it man. Then using a statisic to say something about statstics, just love it man that is really cool. Nice work on your comments in the sig ^_^