If you ignore 3d acceleration completely, then I agree... Add 3d acceleration into the mix, and you're wrong about VM's being good for gaming.
You described the amazing thing VM's bring to the table. 30 servers running on 4 machines. That's awesome. It's also got nothing to do with running games. If a VM can't do 3d acceleration, it's useless for a gamer.
Which at the end of the day is the crux of this whole debate. Telling a gamer to run Win98 in a VM, to play games that use 3d hardware, is a non-starter, and it's why some people still use old machines with outdated OS's on them. Sometimes emulation doesn't cut it.
Using Wine for one solitary.dll file seems like total overkill to me. Why not just use the modified.dll? There is a dll mod for Fallout and Fallout 2, and it actually adds high resolution, and filtering options, to the menu. That right there is something Wine doesn't do.
No it was a typo. I type very fast, and it's easy to mistype a word like 'left' or 'right', without noticing at first. Regardless, I've been modded redundant for offering up some help, so no good deed went unpunished.
What you just described is basically a rolling release distro. Try Arch Linux or Gentoo. Ubuntu isn't the only Linux distro. If it's not doing what you like, you should check other ones out.
In Preferences, choose a theme with the buttons on the left, then choose Customize, and select which Controls, and Window Border you want. Problem solved.
I notice this the most with games that use the Unreal engine. It's almost like a requirement of the engine license that the game must take at least a minute to load from all the logos for the tech that was used to build the game. Another one that was bad was Crysis. The first time you load it, they made you watch all the company logos, tech logos, and the intro video, with no option to skip. It literally took around 8 minutes to get to the menu the first time.
Is that why they were recently pressured into improving their Open GL driver, simply because games on the newly released Steam for Mac, were running like crap compared to their Windows counterparts?
Many companies are now porting games to Mac simply because Steam is set up and ready to go on it. People who once didn't care about hardware, are now starting to. For the money, Apple needs to be giving much better graphics capabilities than they do.
The nice thing about GRUB2 is that it can support higher resolution images for the boot menu background. And honestly, you're still adding the exact same lines, it's just to a new file. There is also nothing hard about typing the command in to the console to build the new menu... It's really not a big deal.
Just keep at it. Grub2 made little sense to me when I first started out with it, but once you get used to it, it's actually fairly nice.
Just remember if you're trying to add any new OS to it that/etc/grub.d/40_custom is your friend. Add your OS to it, then update-grub, and it will be on the menu the next boot.
For desktop usage, Win7 is most definitely just as stable as Linux. I say this from experience too, and not out of my ass.
I have 1 PC that is Arch Linux full time, being used as a media server, and the other dual boots Win7 and Arch. Win7 is only there for gaming at this point, but stability is not an issue whatsoever.
I can remember buying magazines for that computer, that had pages of games in BASIC code, so you could just copy the code and save the game to your tape drive. Good times, indeed!
Agreed. Honestly I can't even remember the last time my browser crashed using Flash.
The only time I can recall having any issues with it was when I was trying to use it on a 64 bit Linux install.
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I'm calling bullshit on this. Unless you're the only person in the world with the video drivers to make it work correctly...
Beat me to it. I'm not sure what the point of running a game in a VM is, when there is a native Linux client available for it...
If you ignore 3d acceleration completely, then I agree... Add 3d acceleration into the mix, and you're wrong about VM's being good for gaming.
You described the amazing thing VM's bring to the table. 30 servers running on 4 machines. That's awesome. It's also got nothing to do with running games. If a VM can't do 3d acceleration, it's useless for a gamer.
Which at the end of the day is the crux of this whole debate. Telling a gamer to run Win98 in a VM, to play games that use 3d hardware, is a non-starter, and it's why some people still use old machines with outdated OS's on them. Sometimes emulation doesn't cut it.
Using Wine for one solitary .dll file seems like total overkill to me. Why not just use the modified .dll? There is a dll mod for Fallout and Fallout 2, and it actually adds high resolution, and filtering options, to the menu. That right there is something Wine doesn't do.
Back in my day we used to use tin cans and a string to play Doom on Dwango, and WE LIKED IT!
At least they get told "sorry, I love you, it won't happen again".
People using IE don't even get that much!
No it was a typo. I type very fast, and it's easy to mistype a word like 'left' or 'right', without noticing at first. Regardless, I've been modded redundant for offering up some help, so no good deed went unpunished.
And forgive my typo there... "choose a theme with buttons on the left", should read "choose a theme with buttons on the right." :)
What you just described is basically a rolling release distro. Try Arch Linux or Gentoo. Ubuntu isn't the only Linux distro. If it's not doing what you like, you should check other ones out.
X was designed in the 70's and it's really really showing its age.
In Preferences, choose a theme with the buttons on the left, then choose Customize, and select which Controls, and Window Border you want. Problem solved.
No need to use gconf-editor at all.
I notice this the most with games that use the Unreal engine. It's almost like a requirement of the engine license that the game must take at least a minute to load from all the logos for the tech that was used to build the game. Another one that was bad was Crysis. The first time you load it, they made you watch all the company logos, tech logos, and the intro video, with no option to skip. It literally took around 8 minutes to get to the menu the first time.
Is that why they were recently pressured into improving their Open GL driver, simply because games on the newly released Steam for Mac, were running like crap compared to their Windows counterparts?
Many companies are now porting games to Mac simply because Steam is set up and ready to go on it. People who once didn't care about hardware, are now starting to. For the money, Apple needs to be giving much better graphics capabilities than they do.
Did anyone else misread "wired age" as "weird age"? :)
The nice thing about GRUB2 is that it can support higher resolution images for the boot menu background. And honestly, you're still adding the exact same lines, it's just to a new file. There is also nothing hard about typing the command in to the console to build the new menu... It's really not a big deal.
Just keep at it. Grub2 made little sense to me when I first started out with it, but once you get used to it, it's actually fairly nice. Just remember if you're trying to add any new OS to it that /etc/grub.d/40_custom is your friend. Add your OS to it, then update-grub, and it will be on the menu the next boot.
For desktop usage, Win7 is most definitely just as stable as Linux. I say this from experience too, and not out of my ass.
I have 1 PC that is Arch Linux full time, being used as a media server, and the other dual boots Win7 and Arch. Win7 is only there for gaming at this point, but stability is not an issue whatsoever.
Or how about I continue to dual-boot, and use my PC the way I want to?
I can remember buying magazines for that computer, that had pages of games in BASIC code, so you could just copy the code and save the game to your tape drive. Good times, indeed!
I've often wished for this as well. There is no excuse for not having some sort of multi-OS standard for booting.
I misread it and thought I'd see a TI99/4A in a sleek aluminum case. :D
Because then you can't complain about Firefox's bloated memory usage.
That's simply not true in all cases. I have neither of those addons installed, and Flash never crashes on this machine. Win7 64bit, Firefox.
Agreed. Honestly I can't even remember the last time my browser crashed using Flash. The only time I can recall having any issues with it was when I was trying to use it on a 64 bit Linux install.