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Mandrake Linux Gamer Edition
JWhiton writes: "According to Blue's News, Mandrake and TransGaming are going to ship a new distribution of Mandrake Linux specificially aimed at gamers. It comes with The Sims and TransGaming's WineX for compatibility with Windows games. Apparently it's going to ship on November 9th."
Refer to the slashdot article about it:4 6&mode=thread
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/14/13182
I'd rather just purchase that, and be able to install it in my choice of distribution.
I've found that mplayer does a really good job of playing mpeg/avi/divx files in Linux.
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What kind of bloat do you have running on that Windows machine? Games typically DO run better on Windows, though there are exceptions. (Quake is NOT by any means one of them).
HOWEVER, it is well known that Windows does not Multitask well compared to Linux, so anything you have running in the background is going to have some kind of ill effect on your gaming experiences. How ill that effect is depends largely on how powerful your PC is, what type of game you are playing, and what other software you have running.
Also, if your video card supports T&L, or other really nice very modern features, and the game you are running also supports those features, I seriously doubt Linux gaming performance will even come close to comparing with Windows.
This isn't even so much a "Can't Do" issue so much as "Just not done yet" issue.
Fortunately, things like SDL and Mesa are paving the way for this to change. And of course, Wine is getting more mature all the time.
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Actually, they added asf support in the recent 0.9.2 release. You can see it in their release notes here.
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