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Tuvar Hiede
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.06.24 04:43:00 -
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My experience with Linux has been primarily with servers and or programming platform, I've used WINE in a few instances but how is it for a gaming platform and using things like Microsoft Office? I know driver updates can be a bit of a problematic area but otherwise whats your experience with Linux? I use Fedora currently since all versions have little differences. |
Neuntausend
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2014.06.24 13:56:00 -
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In my experience, driver update issues are a thing of the past. I am using gentoo and I haven't had a problem in years. GNU/Linux has come a long way as a desktop OS.
As for gaming: As long as you use native games, and thanks to steam, these exist to a degree now, everthing is straightforward, stable, fast and easier than you might be used to from using windows. The proprietary graphics drivers for AMD and nVidia work well, the open source radeon drivers seem to be working too, if you have an older radeon card. Many USB gamepads work out of the box in modern desktop distributions, there's even a driver for the xbox 360 pad integrated in the kernel.
That being said, most games you will likely want to play are still not native linux games, and therefore you have to use wine to run them. Depending on the game, this can either be fairly easy still (eve is really uncomplicated these days), or very fiddly, slow or it may not work at all. https://appdb.winehq.org/ is your friend here.
Same goes for other native Windows software, such as Microsoft Office. In my experience, Microsoft Office 2010 32 bit works well enough for me, but there are certain things that don't. I didn't have much luck with the VBA Macros yet, for example. I'd recommend using LibreOffice instead, chances are it has everything you need. |
Tuvar Hiede
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Posted - 2014.06.25 02:39:00 -
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Good stuff, I wish I had a larger HDD because I'm using a 500GB that needs updated soon. I will Duel boot then and if all goes will maybe switch over to Linux as my primary OS. Since I've been seeing more Linux support it seems does that mean companies have finally got on board with making Linux an OS they now wish to include like Windows and the horrid MAC OS? |
Neuntausend
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2014.06.25 03:52:00 -
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Hard to say. Since the release of Steam for Linux there have been quite a bunch of native game releases, but mostly indiegames and a few older Valve titles such as Counter Strike Source and Portal 2. However, SteamOS is coming, engines like Unity 4 or Unreal Engine 4 offer Linux support and I have high hopes. But you never know, only time will tell. |
Tuvar Hiede
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Posted - 2014.06.25 04:16:00 -
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Sounds great to me, I've noticed Steam titles supporting Linux as well. Some that's Windows/Linux and no MAC lol, I love it. My main concern is WINE and Office with the addition of a few other programs I use on a regular basis. |
Jaxon Grylls
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Posted - 2014.06.25 11:38:00 -
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For most things I have found that Wine works well. If things get a bit complicated then I usually turn to Play on Linux. That has a number of tools that make installing and running Windows games easy, but a word of warning. A lot of the scripts used by PoL seem to aimed solely at Ubuntu and its derivatives. They don't work for me, I use PCLinuxOs and find that installing games using the "unsupported application" route fixes stuff for me at least.
Some people swear by Crossover, I've tried it a few times but have never used it as I find that Wine and PoL run what I need. It does however have a good reputation with things like MS Office. |
Tuvar Hiede
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Posted - 2014.06.26 04:56:00 -
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Jaxon Grylls wrote:For most things I have found that Wine works well. If things get a bit complicated then I usually turn to Play on Linux. That has a number of tools that make installing and running Windows games easy, but a word of warning. A lot of the scripts used by PoL seem to aimed solely at Ubuntu and its derivatives. They don't work for me, I use PCLinuxOs and find that installing games using the "unsupported application" route fixes stuff for me at least.
Some people swear by Crossover, I've tried it a few times but have never used it as I find that Wine and PoL run what I need. It does however have a good reputation with things like MS Office.
Good to know, oddly enough I was going to use Linux because I just upgraded and Windows would need reinstalled. It booted right up even with new board, processor, and Graphics Card even though I've never been able to change the board without a full reinstall in the past. |
Marsan
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Posted - 2014.06.26 21:57:00 -
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I've play a lot of games under wine, but you need to check winehq before you buy. That said outside of Eve I've not used wine in a while for gaming as Steam is providing more than enough games. Microsoft Office under wine is really not worth it. Libre Office will do every most people want to do, and read/export word docs just fine. Former forum cheerleader CCP, now just a grumpy small portion of the community. |
Torgeir Hekard
I MYSELF AND ME
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Posted - 2014.07.02 05:18:00 -
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Tuvar Hiede wrote:[quote=Jaxon Grylls] Good to know, oddly enough I was going to use Linux because I just upgraded and Windows would need reinstalled. It booted right up even with new board, processor, and Graphics Card even though I've never been able to change the board without a full reinstall in the past. Nnnah. Was possble even back in XP days. Not oficially supported and legally questionable, but definitely possible. There was even a guide on technet (with a big angry disclaimer of course) on how to do it (for emergency use in case of hardware failure ).
Required getting the right hal.dll and some registry tweaks to install basic IDE drivers (and putting SATA controller on the recieving system into legacy mode).
On topic:
Generally speaking, wine works good. In some cases better than windows (if you want to run something old, for example). In the case of NWN2, wine was the only useable way to run it for me (the game refused to let me select proper screen resolution under windows). In some cases though, all hope is lost. For example, I can't make MWO work in linux. |
Dalke Eon
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Posted - 2014.07.14 18:28:00 -
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Maybe I'm a little bit late posting this here since this post is "quite a few" days old, but if you really need to install Microsoft Office for whatever reson, theres no need to use wine, just check this link:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/07/run-microsoft-office-web-apps-ubuntu-desktop
I'm sure that they might be limited since they are web apps (idk I haven't tried them), but it seems like a fast and simple solution.
As for gaming, get playOnLinux (which ofc uses wine), it just did the trick for me to install EVE and many other windows games without any problem and its super rookie friendly, just find the game you want to install on the list and install it. |
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