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shadowforte
12-03-2007, 03:42 AM
I hate Vista so much, so I am going to switch to Ubuntu 7.10. Does everyone else think this is a good ideal?
MenaceInc
12-03-2007, 10:42 AM
i loved Ubuntu and 7.10 is really good.i didn't have any problems with setting it up at all except for getting my multiple monitors set up. my laptop is....a bit old...and intergrated laptop graphics couldn't handle the desktop effects over 2 screens.lol.

as long as you are only using one screen then it is a great OS...i love the eye candy though of the desktop effects :D hehe.
Acerthief
12-04-2007, 07:52 AM
Ubuntu 7.10 is good enough, still for hardcore gamers like us (including you XD), I'd still recommend two OS running. (Ubuntu and XP of course)

If any problem bumps in the forums are friendly as exophase.com, and helpful of course.

USE IT. lol.
canadajames
12-04-2007, 08:37 PM
Id suggest keeping vista and running ubunto as main os. since sooner or later xp wont be able to play all the games anymore any theyll be vista only.
Darkchild
12-05-2007, 03:32 PM
Go to ubuntu! IMHO Ubuntu is BETTER than vista XD all my hardware works in Ubuntu, (Except my ATI -_-', well...parcially xD) but in vista.... >_<
shadowforte
12-05-2007, 04:01 PM
Well, I switched. Works great. Good bye Vista.
MenaceInc
12-06-2007, 10:42 AM
nice one. :P
you got all the eye candy going then?
hehe
thats the best part of 7.10 i think :D
shadowforte
12-06-2007, 05:17 PM
To tell you the truth, I have no ideal how. I do have a question though. Is there any way to get Windows games to work on it? Like The Sims 2 or Half Life 2?
daveycockit
12-07-2007, 02:15 PM
To tell you the truth, I have no ideal how. I do have a question though. Is there any way to get Windows games to work on it? Like The Sims 2 or Half Life 2?

You can install wine http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb

If you have 7.10 your going to want to open terminal and paste this in there

sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

Once that is entered follow that by typing

sudo apt-get install wine, It will ask you to input an administrator password, login and it does the rest for ya. ( unless i am forgetting a step )

However, Wine does not work with EVERY Game
Darkchild
12-08-2007, 02:40 AM
and be sure to update to the latest version! Which is... 9.50? I guess..