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Mandrake Linux Gamer Edition

Posted by michael on from the emulate-this dept.

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."

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  1. Re:point-and-drool herds by Anton+Anatopopov · · Score: 0, Redundant
    A large number of Linux users are condescending dorks like you.

    OK, So perhaps I wasn't as nice as I could have been, but you really should have seen this guy. He really couldn't get his head around the idea that there were other OS's apart from Micro$oft.

    I don't have a problem with gamers using Mandrake, anything which gets Linux onto more machines is fine by be. I just wonder if the gamers know what they are letting themselves in for ?

    My first experiences with Mandrake were not good. It destroyed my Windows partition without warning. (fortunately I had a backup, but this was hardly a user-friendly thing to do).

    My impressions of Linux are that it is a very powerful system, but it doesn't 'suffer fools' if you know what I mean.

    Maybe this gamers Linux will do plenty of hand-holding and have a really easy to use installer. I hope so, or as I mentioned before, the newsgroups will be flooded with newbies whinging about how they trashed their machines.