What is that good about Linux?

[Errdoth]

"How compatible are games with it [Linux]?"

 

 

 

Short Answer: Very Incompatible

 

 

 

Longer Answer With a Question: What games are you intending to run? Most of the larger mainstream games like Crysis, Half-Life 2 and other Source-based games, etc tend to not bother with making their games compatible with Linux.

 

I can play source engine games just fine through WINE :|

[sloter]

"How compatible are games with it [Linux]?"

 

 

 

Short Answer: Very Incompatible

 

 

 

Longer Answer With a Question: What games are you intending to run? Most of the larger mainstream games like Crysis, Half-Life 2 and other Source-based games, etc tend to not bother with making their games compatible with Linux.

 

I can play source engine games just fine through WINE :|

 

I have been able to do that too.

[dsavi]

I haven't tried that yet, I have some that I should try it with.

[Sinkhan]

"How compatible are games with it [Linux]?"

 

 

 

Short Answer: Very Incompatible

 

 

 

Longer Answer With a Question: What games are you intending to run? Most of the larger mainstream games like Crysis, Half-Life 2 and other Source-based games, etc tend to not bother with making their games compatible with Linux.

 

I can play source engine games just fine through WINE :|

 

I have been able to do that too.

 

 

 

"And as already mentioned, there are a few programs which emulate Windows on Linux, but they only go so far."

 

 

 

:roll:

[Deviloch]

I use linux (debian) because I don't appreciate the limitations and restrictions of windows. They make you pay them and then tell you what you can and can't do with your machine. -.-

 

 

 

I also refuse to support major corporations such as microsoft.

 

 

 

However I only recommend it if you really know what you're doing, windows or mac are suitable for most folks.

[thejollyroger]

Linux ultimately traces back to UNIX, which is older than dirt. UNIX and BSD were around before Bill Gates was a twinkle in his mother's eye.

 

 

 

Hence the saying "Linux is a flavor of UNIX".

 

 

 

Ubuntu and OpenSUSE are a few of the most user-friendly distros out there right now. I think Ubuntu gets more press because the community is a little more extensive; however, as others have said, there are Linux fanboys and disgruntled ex-Windows users, and so it's not always the welcoming community some say it is.

 

 

 

Right now I'm using Ubuntu 8.04. I'm thinking about moving to Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu but is a little more polished.

 

 

 

Some of the downsides:

 

 

 

Proprietary software and drivers was mentioned. Sound output is a mess right now; I can say if you've got a Soundblaster Live! sound card, you're good to go; otherwise you may have some problems. *cough*Pulse Audio needs some work*cough* Support for Nvidia and ATI cards seem pretty decent.

 

 

 

Ubuntu is a Debian derivative. Software packages often have to be bundled specifically for Debian.

 

 

 

Upsides, of course-- free, free, free. I'm very poor and I do my own repair/maintenance on my system. I used a lot of open source software on Windows and it made my transition MUCH easier.

[Deathmath]

I only know two reasons so I'll be honest

 

 

 

It doesn't take much RAM

 

It's good for open source.

[dsavi]

Ubuntu and OpenSUSE are a few of the most user-friendly distros out there right now. I think Ubuntu gets more press because the community is a little more extensive; however, as others have said, there are Linux fanboys and disgruntled ex-Windows users, and so it's not always the welcoming community some say it is.

I personally like Ubuntu better because of all the debs available through apt-get. The problem with OpenSuse (And other RPM based distros) is that so little software can be installed through yum or a package manager. And installing from source is pretty annoying, I think.

[The Observer]

I like Ubuntu because it's way better than Windows 98... It has nothing to do with Windows sucking. Also, why should I pay $150 for an operating system out of money that I don't even have on a computer that can't run it properly?

[Errdoth]

I personally like Ubuntu better because of all the debs available through apt-get. The problem with OpenSuse (And other RPM based distros) is that so little software can be installed through yum or a package manager. And installing from source is pretty annoying, I think.

 

Yast has quite a lot of software available, and plenty of repositories as well...hell, you can even install apt on suse if you want to. (and installing from source is typically about three lines in terminal, not that annoying :P)

[dsavi]

Yeah, ./configure; make; make install , but it always spits out this crap about dependencies. So I download the things required (Only available in source) and they spit out make errors when I try to install them.

 

 

 

The problem with installing something like apt is that it doesn't matter if you have apt installed, it doesn't change the amount of software you can get from the repositories. That's basically the whole reason I use Ubuntu over Fedora or OpenSuse.