Thread: Don't buy windows 7 yet.

I have too many problems with Linux running my games to use linux. Tried Wine and Cedega etc. Doesn't work for me.

Other than that Linux is great! For those who don't play games I heartily recommend it.

Originally Posted by undertakingyou

...I hijacked the home PC and put only linux on there. My wife is so comfortable using it, and likes some of the small little usability features so much, that she asked her work to install ubuntu on her machine there.

.....you have thrown away money . . . just cause.

Only 2 months after we started dating, my girlfriend was having trouble with her computer, and I suggested she put linux on there, even though she's never used it before, and had really never heard much about it before.

More than a year later, she's still using it, and loves it.


As far as throwing your money away, I think it's just a matter of knowing what you're paying for. If a person wants to spend the money just for the sake of having the newest thing, then that's fine, as long as they realize that they are trading something that works well AND a lot of money, just so they can be using the newest thing.

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

I have too many problems with Linux running my games to use linux. Tried Wine and Cedega etc. Doesn't work for me.

Other than that Linux is great! For those who don't play games I heartily recommend it.

If you haven't tried wine/cedega in a year, you might try it again.

The only game I've tried to throw at Ubuntu linux that didn't work was an old copy of Myst.

WoW (which I don't play anymore) get's better frame rates on ubuntu+wine than it does with the same hardware.

IME, as of today, there are more games that do work, than there are that don't.

It was half a year ago.

I couldn't even get games that were supposed to run under Linux to run under linux.

One of my favorites is: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars which has a linux client and I couldn't even get that to run. In the end I gave up fiddling with things and just went back to windows which although slow....will at least let me install things and run them straight away.

Hmmmm, I'm installing it on my PS3, so...games are kind of covered.

Sorry to hijack, I'll start my own thread I think...

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

....will at least let me install things and run them straight away.

As I said, linux is most certainly NOT for everyone. My whole point for even mentioning it was just that if you're going to be changing OS's anyway, that's as good a time to try it as any.

That being said, I laughed when I read the above comment of yours, because one of my favorite things about linux, especially ubuntu, is that it will at least let me install things and run them straight away, which has never been a consistant experience for me with any flavor of Windows.

In windows, I'll get something installed, and it will work for a while. But over time, things don't work as well, and every windows update seems to break something or other. Or, I'll try to install something, and it will conflict with something else I'm already running.


With linux, if I want to install, oh let's say "Hugin" (a panorama creation tool), I just click on my "Start Menu," click "Add/Remove," type "hugin" in the search box, click the checkbox next to the program I want, and click the big friendly "Install" button.

When I want to install a windows game, like Spore (great game by the way) I open up Cedega, which keeps my games separate, allows different system settings for each, and generally does things that would require a registry master in windows, click the great big "install" button on the top of the window while the disk is in the drive, and it will launch the installer for me.

When I want to install a windows app that isn't a game, I throw the CD/DVD in the drive, and the autoplay feature brings up the installer just like it does in windows.

That's cool man. I just never got it to work that well. Too much finetuning before I reach that point.

I've never had any real problems with windoze other than it being slow. I love Linux and wish I could've gotten it to work better however. But I spent quite a lot of time trying and working on it and could never get it quite perfect.

I tried Ubuntu and Mint and loved both but they never worked flawlessly so in the end I just gave up. I prefer finetuning my knives over finetuning my system.

If someone were to set it up so that it would work flawlessly I'd go over to it in a heartbeat.

Originally Posted by VeeDubb65

I didn't want to hyjack the Windows 7 pre-sale thread, but I really wanted to comment on the subject. So, here it goes.

1. If you have ever considered Ubuntu or some other flavor of linux, why not try it first? I know that linux isn't for everyone, but if you're going to be formatting your hard drive and installing a new OS anyway, why not give it a shot? It's completely free, so if you don't like it, you're only out the time you spent setting it up. Get it at Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu and get help at ubuntuforums.org

I think it really depends on what you use your computer for.. If you play games at all, dont do it.

If all you do is surf the web/email and need an office suite(Open Office), it rocks. Ubuntu usually works out of the box.

1. Your PC probably can't run it. A great many of problems people had with Vista were the result of running it older hardware. In the PC world, 1 year is outdated, and 2 years is ancient. Review the minimum AND recommended system requirements first, and don't upgrade if you don't meet at LEAST the minimum. The closer you are to the recommended, the better.

Windows 7 actually runs better on old hardware then vista. My dads 6-7 year old desktop is running the beta right now.

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

If you play games at all, dont do it.

As I've already pointed out in this discussion, this comment is WILDLY outdated. Gaming makes up roughly 1/3 of what I use my home computer for, and I very rarely have any significant trouble playing games on linux, even newer and highly resource intensive games.

Some highly popular games, such as WoW, are well documented to actually run better through wine on linux for many people than running them on XP.

Also, as I have already pointed out, I have my own business as a professional photographer, and 99% of what I do with digital imaging is done with applications that are native linux apps.

Saying that linux is only good for home users if all they do is surf the web and use an office app is just plain wrong.

Originally Posted by VeeDubb65

As I've already pointed out in this discussion, this comment is WILDLY outdated. Gaming makes up roughly 1/3 of what I use my home computer for, and I very rarely have any significant trouble playing games on linux, even newer and highly resource intensive games.

Some highly popular games, such as WoW, are well documented to actually run better through wine on linux for many people than running them on XP.

Also, as I have already pointed out, I have my own business as a professional photographer, and 99% of what I do with digital imaging is done with applications that are native linux apps.

Saying that linux is only good for home users if all they do is surf the web and use an office app is just plain wrong.

I have ubuntu on one of my partitions and run linux on my laptop. It is still true.

WoW is a 5 year old game now. And i still stand by my statement. Do you think most "home users" are capable to screwing with wine?

I really dont want to pay a monthly fee to cedega either...

it was suprising to me what worked easily and what didnt. I did not have to do much to get HL2 and other games based on it to work(like TF2).