Windows 7, I told you so........

i want everyone to know and understand...that was my son on my laptop posting.....not me......if i were younger i would have caught him by now...i will wait till he is asleep and give him some (large quantity) cold...very cold water!

That is what fathers do isn't it?

 

Still running my pirated 7 pro and no problems at all. Works better than XP even IMHO

 

Same here. My laptop came with Vista, and ever since day one I had problems booting. Two out of three attempts it would hang, forcing me to hold the power button down to cut the power abruptly so I could try again. This exercise destroyed two hard drives. After buying my third hard drive, I decided I had enough with Vista. I have a 200 gig drive, 100 of it has Ubuntu installed, the rest of it has an old copy of XP I had laying around. I use XP for gaming. But I've also found Ubuntu does some gaming too. I've found a few of my games actually run better under Ubuntu with WINE than they do with Windows. There's actually quite a few cool native Linux games out there as well. Best thing about Ubuntu is running with no security programs, no virus scanners, no adware removers, and all that garbage.

 

Get yourself a PC and put Ubuntu on it. You'll have pretty much the same experience. It comes with Firefox out of the box, but I prefer Google Chrome, which is simple enough to add. I can load up Frostwire or Limewire in Windows and sit and watch the attacks roll in and my virus scanner go nuts. When I load it up in Ubuntu, I'm safe, because it wouldn't know what to do with a Windows virus even if I downloaded one. Oh, and you can't beat the price...It's free. You can probably run it on your old computer and give it a second life.

 

What games are you running under WINE? And how did you set up your WINE to run them? I ask out of idle curiosity.

 

I'm running all the Half-life and half-life 2 games, including team fortress2, with Steam, under WINE. Warcraft 3 is another one that runs decent under WINE, I've also heard World of Warcraft runs fine under WINE, although I don't have that game.

The best and easiest way to get games running in Ubuntu, is with a program called PlayOnLinux. You'll find it in the Ubuntu Software Center in 9.10. It will set up just about all the popular games for you, and a lot of other Windows apps as well. Heck, it will even put IE7 your system, which is kind of cool for those IE only sites, but it runs kind of sluggish. Another game I play is Urban Terror, which is a free first person shooter. It comes with linux and windows executables, and I get better frame rate with the windows .exe under wine than I do running it natively.

 

Yeah, I sorta figured. Seems like the games that run the best under WINE are the MMOs. Unfortunately, I prefer single-player and have a stone bear of a time getting most of my legacy stuff to run. But I haven't given PlayOnLinux a shot, yet. Basically, I use Ubuntu to crawl the web (virus protection), play movies for better video playback, and play my music files. I'll also be using it in school (please God) for research and paperwriting and the like. There's supposed to be another opersource operating system in development that will run every Windows-based piece of software flawlessly, but I can't remember what it's called. Not a big deal, since I think they are still a few years from even being in the beta test stage.

 

I'm not into MMO's either. I simply don't have time for them.

I think you are thinking of ReactOS, which is a partner with the folks that make WINE. They are working on a free version of Windows. I haven't looked at their site in a long time, until just now, it looks like it's made a lot of progress in the last year or so since I last checked it out. http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html

 

Ive used ubuntu before and i liked it but it dont like my phone(boost sucks but 35 cents a day is not a bad price for mobile internet, even if it is around dial up speed). I heard linux mint is even more out of the box ready than ubuntu is. the only linux that i found that uses dial up without writing a script is puppy, and i dont like the feel of it at all, but can run comply off a 128mb thumb drive. as for windows 7 seem to run better for me(had a offline patcher). When i get high-speed again i will go back to duel boot win/linux