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June 7, 2014 6:43:34 PM

Hello everyone,

I have a few questions about Linux (Ubuntu distro), now I heared that Linux is really good, costs absolutely nothing and performs as a beast with all applications like Adobe photoshop, Sony Vegas, Skype but just free versions made for Linux and without some high end settings, but still a viable programs to use. I'm all up for that! But I'm a hard core gamer also and I play a lot of games, although most of them are supported by Linux ( I checked ) directly or just through Wine and I'm not sure will my needs for gaming will be satisfied enough. My little brother also likes to play from time to time and I want him to be able to play everything too. I also have a reasonably bad pc and I want to utilize my components at best. I know/read that Linux is good for that.

My question is should I switch to Linux for gaming/ best use of my system?

System Specs:

CPU: i5 650 3.20 GHz
GPU: Club 3d Radeon 7850
RAM: Kingston DDR3 2x2 1333Mhz
PSU: Medecom Premium 500 500WAT
HDD: Samsung 7200rpm 1Tb
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster XL2370 (23Inch)

My Games:
Counter-Strike Global Offensive
World of Wacraft Mists of Pandaria
Leauge Of Legends
Dota 2
Starcraft 2 Heart Of the Swarm
Battlefield 4
System Shock 2
Garry's Mod
Darksiders 2
DayZ
Warframe
Trine 2

Brother games:
Titanfall
Terraria
Minecraft
Ace Of Spades
Game Of Dwarfs
Binding Of Isaac
Don't Starve.

Thank you,
Enflics.

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a b 5 Linux
June 7, 2014 7:00:01 PM

Not many top level games run under Linux.
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a b 5 Linux
June 7, 2014 7:05:31 PM

To expound on that:

Yes, they may run under WINE. But maybe not great.
Linux is a completely different OS. Things operate totally different.

But, it is actually free. So try it, especially if you have a spare box to do it with.
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a b 5 Linux
June 7, 2014 7:35:47 PM

If you are gaming unfortunately windows is still your best bet for ease of use and performance.

BTW you can always dual boot Linux and windows!

Also Linux isn't just "free$". Its freedom :) 
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
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a b 5 Linux
June 8, 2014 1:41:32 AM

Enflics said:
Hello everyone,

I have a few questions about Linux (Ubuntu distro), now I heared that Linux is really good, costs absolutely nothing and performs as a beast with all applications like Adobe photoshop, Sony Vegas, Skype but just free versions made for Linux and without some high end settings, but still a viable programs to use. I'm all up for that! But I'm a hard core gamer also and I play a lot of games, although most of them are supported by Linux ( I checked ) directly or just through Wine and I'm not sure will my needs for gaming will be satisfied enough. My little brother also likes to play from time to time and I want him to be able to play everything too. I also have a reasonably bad pc and I want to utilize my components at best. I know/read that Linux is good for that.

My question is should I switch to Linux for gaming/ best use of my system?

System Specs:

CPU: i5 650 3.20 GHz
GPU: Club 3d Radeon 7850
RAM: Kingston DDR3 2x2 1333Mhz
PSU: Medecom Premium 500 500WAT
HDD: Samsung 7200rpm 1Tb
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster XL2370 (23Inch)

My Games:
Counter-Strike Global Offensive
World of Wacraft Mists of Pandaria
Leauge Of Legends
Dota 2
Starcraft 2 Heart Of the Swarm
Battlefield 4
System Shock 2
Garry's Mod
Darksiders 2
DayZ
Warframe
Trine 2

Brother games:
Titanfall
Terraria
Minecraft
Ace Of Spades
Game Of Dwarfs
Binding Of Isaac
Don't Starve.

Thank you,
Enflics.


I think that whomever told you that information may have embellished some of it a little bit.

If the free media editing tools available for Linux were as powerful as their commercial equivalents, then there would be no market for Adobe products, Sony Vegas, Windows, etc...

There are many great free software products, but many of them also have significant shortfalls such as downright unusable interfaces and extremely lackluster documentation. They are often designed by hobbyists and hobbyists don't like writing documentation so they just don't do it. They also aren't subject to market research and focus testing like their commercial equivalents, so it's not at all uncommon for a program's interface to be completely unintuitive at first. If you do choose to try it out, expect to read a lot of manuals.

I work with Linux professionally (RHEL mostly), so I'm not at all biased in Microsoft's favour.

As the saying goes, you get what you pay for.
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June 9, 2014 1:32:47 PM

If you have an extra $30-50 to spare then get another HD and install Ubuntu on that drive. you can then go into your bios and set the computer to boot to that drive first. Each time it does you will get a menu of installed operating systems. you will see Ubuntu at the top and your windows drive at the bottom. Each time you boot you have the option of which OS to use so you get the best of both worlds.

This is how I have both my home and work system set up. I run in Ubuntu 90% of the time but if I want to play a game at home or if I need to use adobe or some other commercial software at work, its just a reboot and a click away.

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