Linux and games?

[M4LFUNCT10N]

Well, if I get Debian working tonight(I should be able to), should I install UT2K4 on Debian or XP?

I'm guessing that I'd have better framerates on Debian right?

[Tha[\]atos]

install on both and find out :tongue:

[DiscoDave]

Honestly, I'd be surprised if you were to get better frame rates on Debian.

WindowsXP is pretty fast...in fact, when I had Mandrake installed, I was shocked to learn that it took about 2ce as long as WindowsXP to boot up on the same machine. Granted, that was not booting to a bash prompt (which is very fast), rather a Windows 3.1-ish graphical interface program that does a little, but not a whole lot.

Furthermore, I'd expect graphics drivers to be quite a bit more polished under WinXP than linux....but I don't really know...I never tried to run any games, only dedicated servers via linux.

[Excessive]

Originally posted by DiscoDave
Furthermore, I'd expect graphics drivers to be quite a bit more polished under WinXP than linux....


Thats the bigest concern I would have also.

[Spiphy]

Actually if you have a nvidia graphics card your drivers will be on par with windows. Nvidia has in the last year switched to a unified driver model so all platforms get the same drivers at the same time.

[ghrogels]

Originally posted by DiscoDave
...when I had Mandrake installed...

well, there is your problem :P

[DiscoDave]

Originally posted by ghrog
well, there is your problem :P
Technically, it was Gnome. If I wanted to boot to a command prompt, linux is as fast as MS-DOS...but Microsoft's got a much faster windows based interface. *shrug*

[M4LFUNCT10N]

Well, I'm on my 4th distro.... SuSE 9.0. And I have to say after 5 minutes... I like this one the best.

[ghrogels]

i don't mean the desktop that you booted into, i mean the distro that ur using.
on my 333mhz, the slowest distro to boot was mandrake, it also was the slowest in the gui, and just slow over-all. while college linux was the fastest, while obtaining some of the easiest ways to configure it.

SUSE is probly going to become the prodominate linux-distro as Redhat has bow'd out and no longer makes a desktop version of the gnu/linux os. also it is highly suggested by tech tv.

[M4LFUNCT10N]

SuSE auto detected all of my hardware, including my Geforce 4 420. But during bootup it crashes if I have my USB wireless plugged in. I'm going to screw around with it some more later, but I've got another computer to build first. Hmm... maybe I should set my mom up on SuSE?