Which OS?

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 17 Apr 2006, 16:52

When i purchase my new computer, im not sure which OS to use. I hear a lot about Linux but i have no idea about what it is? Which OS will give better performance?

The thing i dislike about windows is the fact that so many processes are always running? Are there any OSs designed just for gaming that run few processes.

(The Xbob has isnt that powerful, 733mhz i think, but it runs games that look great. I had to turn the settings all the way down to get a decent framerate in Halo for PC. So it would be nice to have a gaming OS, and then i can get a cheap computer!)

Masse · Post by **Masse** » 17 Apr 2006, 17:11

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » 17 Apr 2006, 17:52

Masse wrote:XP

ya XP is good almost all games are witten for XP

linux is kinda hard to learn compaird with windows XP
but not so good 4 gaming tho

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 17 Apr 2006, 18:09

Well, if you want performance, use any Linux builds (or FreeBSD, or something generally equal). However, if you want a large game platform, then you're stuck with windows. And if you run windows on a new Pc, you're stuck with XP. (well 2000 might run). You can consider Windows XP-64 bit, if you have a 64 bit processor.

And Linux is just as hard to learn as windows. It's just that is very diffrent and we are all used to windows. (though dependable on the build you have)

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » 17 Apr 2006, 18:11

Zenka wrote:Well, if you want performance, use any Linux builds (or FreeBSD, or something generally equal). However, if you want a large game platform, then you're stuck with windows. And if you run windows on a new Pc, you're stuck with XP. (well 2000 might run). You can consider Windows XP-64 bit, if you have a 64 bit processor.

And Linux is just as hard to learn as windows. It's just that is very diffrent and we are all used to windows. (though dependable on the build you have)

I agree

Masse · Post by **Masse** » 17 Apr 2006, 18:23

i have learned to give as simple ansver as possible cause not all know everything abaut everything u might say... soy just say

if u play lots of games use = XP (any XP that fits ur needs the best)

well.. and linuxes are not allways light on ur comp

at least the ones i have tested

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 17 Apr 2006, 18:28

Alrighty.

(someone should write an OS just for gaming. Then you can share it with windows, so when you game you use that, and when you do other stuff you use windoze)

Michilus_nimbus · Post by **Michilus_nimbus** » 17 Apr 2006, 18:47

Go for XP.
If you want to try out Linux, download a Live-CD like Knoppix and see if you like it.

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » 17 Apr 2006, 18:51

Michilus_nimbus wrote:Go for XP.
If you want to try out Linux, download a Live-CD like Knoppix and see if you like it.

ya thats the way to do it

here is some torrents
http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/

BTW
GKDVD-4.0.2-0.3-EN = GamesKnoppixDVD

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 17 Apr 2006, 19:03

just get XP...

and also install linux for a second boot.

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 17 Apr 2006, 19:51

^aye, that works good. You just run linux, and if you want to game boot windows. And since Spring will be running under linux (hopefully, since there are troubles with syncing), a dual boot system like this can be beneficial.

longhair · Post by **longhair** » 26 Apr 2006, 00:53

Most likely, if you go out and buy a computer, you'll end up having Windows already installed on it and won't have the option of getting it without an OS (the so called Microsoft tax) If you build your own, on the other hand...

Personally, I use Linux pretty much all the time. Most of the games I play work on it just fine. (UT2004, BZFlag, Quake, TASpring, Tremulous, Wolfenstein)

In regards to performance, Windows can be fairly light, and Linux quite heavy, and vice versa. Windows does tend to get weighed down by various apps, including, but not limited to, the full range of security software REQUIRED if you want to run Windows. Considering that I'm hearing rumors that Vista will require 512mb of RAM just run the thing, it sounds like it's getting worse.

With GNU/Linux, you have a choice. Lots of them in fact, which can get really confusing. First off, you have a choice of graphic environment. (yes, I mean the whole GUI shootin' match) KDE an GNOME are the big 2. Both aim to be easy to migrate to from Windows. Both, and KDE especially, can weigh down a system. If you're going for super light, get a basic window manager such as ICEWM, WindowMaker, or Enlightenment. (or one of the 40 million others that are available) The nice thing here is that you have a choice.

The biggest issue for me is that Linux is FREE. Not only free for the downloading, but free as in it's a community project, just like TASpring. (same license in fact)

Linux can be confusing, but many of the newer versions are super easy to get up and running. Given a blank hard drive, I'd definitely say that you'd be up and running faster with Ubuntu or Fedora Core 5 GNU/Linux than you would be with Windows XP, depending, of course, on your hardware configuration.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 26 Apr 2006, 09:57

If you're a gamer you're going to get XP. Lunix is peachy but trying to play games on it is a nightmare. Compatibility is emulated at best.

longhair: you acctually play tremulous? like regularly? It's gross

Erom · Post by **Erom** » 26 Apr 2006, 10:32

It is unfortunately true that for gaming, you need XP. If cash is an issue, Linux is free but you have to be pretty leet to get the emulation working 100%. Note that getting it to work 80% of the time is actually pretty easy.

OS X hasn't been brought up, but for good reason. It's terrible for gaming.

(I own a mac and I still run XP via boot camp to game... which, I might add, gives me better performance than my PC. The new mac intel cores are things of beauty.)

cyclerboy · Post by **cyclerboy** » 26 Apr 2006, 15:05

windows vista

Min3mat · Post by **Min3mat** » 26 Apr 2006, 15:22

windows vista

explain, so we can lau--COMMENT!!! on your suggestions XD

Cyberwal · Post by **Cyberwal** » 26 Apr 2006, 16:42

http://kororaa.org
screenshots

jk, for games there is no way around windows

Dr.InfernO · Post by **Dr.InfernO** » 26 Apr 2006, 19:18

I'm useing x64 and 2000 SP4. It's ok, I like it.

mongus · Post by **mongus** » 26 Apr 2006, 20:13

Fedora core 5 just got out, and by using it few times i can tell its faster tahn core 4.

also OMFG .... i did write glxgears... ... .. and it worked right away!!! (fresh install, ati card).

sad im so lazy to dld/build spring for linux atm.

AF · Post by AF » 26 Apr 2006, 21:09

Vista wont need 512MB, just as XP doesnt need 128MB, btu you do need it if you want to run Vista at it's max.

XP for example is reccomended to run on computers with at least 1Ghz, and 128MB ram preferably 256, however msot people dont knwo that it can run at 64MB on a 233mhz cpu very well if you turn off the fancy graphics and start optimising, and that if you optimise it can be one of the fastest windwos OS's released.

As for Mac OS X, it's a matter of porting the game to the OS from any other Unix OS, which half the time requires little or no work sicne Mac OS X itself is based on some flavour of unix only heavily added to and with numerous re-arrangements...

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