What would be the advantiges of running linux over windows xp? Would i still be able to play all my games that i can on xp?
yes most of them with a windows emulator and one hell of a beast of a machine
why would you need a top end machine to run a windows emulator in linux? and also isnt linux more secure than windows? pretty much no virus at all and i dought ppl break into them like they do with windows..
I was also under the impression that linux does not use as many resources, when i once installed it, it seemed to run MUCH faster than with a clean install of windows. I formatted and put windows back on because it was too difficult for me to use.
(I do believe i had fedora at the time, could have been mandriva though) _________________
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:15 am Post subject:
digital_slacker wrote:
madmoyers wrote:
dartht33bagger wrote:
What would be the advantiges of running linux over windows xp? Would i still be able to play all my games that i can on xp?
yes most of them with a windows emulator and one hell of a beast of a machine
why would you need a top end machine to run a windows emulator in linux? and also isnt linux more secure than windows? pretty much no virus at all and i dought ppl break into them like they do with windows..
I was also under the impression that linux does not use as many resources, when i once installed it, it seemed to run MUCH faster than with a clean install of windows. I formatted and put windows back on because it was too difficult for me to use.
(I do believe i had fedora at the time, could have been mandriva though)
I would guess like 2 gigs or ram, duel core 2.1 ghz and like a nvida geforce 6600 to run one. I dont really know though. _________________
madmoyers Xbox-HQ Member Xbox Version: 1.1,1.3 Modded: x2ce lite,x3 xbmc
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:15 am Post subject:
well think about for a sec you are running another op sys in a op and we all know the amount of system rescorces that M$ windows takes and then you are gonna run into configuration problems between the too of them the best way that i have found to do it is i put linux on one partion and windows on another i used ubuntu for almost everything i did, but i did have trouble logging in to my xbox with it so i would use M$ to do that but i got a new laptop and i did vista on one partion and suse on the other but suse is not as easy as ubuntu. kinda wishing id stayed with it you can check out the windows x program(to run windows aps in linux) but i dont know if it will run windows games _________________
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject:
If you are planning to run windows games on linux then you might want to check out this page: http://frankscorner.org/
Oh i get it, yea i spose when running an os in an os it would use double the resources... that would be the only thing for me tho cuz i like alot of apps that run under windows and i had a hard time finding the same thing or something similar to it for linux. _________________
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject:
Mad has the best bet for this when he said to use dule boot, keeps it useing one OS at a time and a restart is all you need to switch from one to the next.
yea dual boot is what im thinkin, but i think im going to experiment with different versions til i find one i like before i go through all the work of partitioning and all that to find out i dont like that one or somethin.
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I think ill put a duel boot linux on mine once i get a bigger hdd in my computer. _________________
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