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Best Configuration for Linux Gaming?

Posted by Cliff on from the aside-from-dual-booting dept.

werjman asks: "I'm interested in switching completely to Linux but the only thing holding me back is the gaming. What I really want to know is what distro, graphical environment, Window Manager, and so forth are low on the system resources and play games great (and by games, I mean 3D accelerated memory hogs). Does anyone out there actually use Linux as a gaming platform?"

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  1. Hate to say it by jaredmauch · · Score: 3, Interesting
    This is the only reason why i have a dual-boot system. I don't play a lot of games to be honest, but the ones that I do play require me to be stuck in windoze. When I upgraded my (desktop) system to a p4-2.8 htt/1g/radeon9800pro earlier this year (soon i'll have to say 'last year'), i was forced to update to XP from 98. I just couldn't get things to work correctly. I wasn't expecting the HT to work correctly, just act like a single cpu, but the usb, etc..on the mb just did not have 98/me drivers that would work in my setup.

    I took this chance to actually put some cash in m$ pocket when they've been getting "better" on the security, etc... front. Sure, mod me down or whatever for saying these anti-opensource things here. Not like i actually did anything for linux or open source. ;-)

    I've found that this works the best (aside from my PS/2) for my needs. YMMV depending on what you need.