![]() With something like, say, ubuntu, or mint, or … anything modern. ![]() Oh, and reboot between every single one of those steps, multiple times … and about 80 separate times for the updates on top of that … if you’re lucky. – Clean the registry after 10 minutes of use ![]() – Optimize the system by removing all of the tat that comes with it. – Install drivers for everything that windows doesn’t come with – Install media playback software that actually works If you’re complaining about installing something from scratch, then try installing windows from scratch. You have to compare apples with apples here. My experience with modern distros is quite the contrary to what you’ve just said. I boot into osX only for the company VPN. The last i’ve ever depended on windows full time was NT4.Įven in those old days, with suse 6.3, YaST took care of pretty much everything, and it was foolproof … even back then. The last windows install i’ve ever had at home was win2k, and that was alongside suse 6.3 (which had 2.2+ and was therefore able to load modules dynamically, so adding/removing hardware became somewhat trivial). I’ve been using linux since the kernel 2.0 days, back when you couldn’t load modules at all. Not that those are hard to deal with in any way. The only things that remain annoying are things such as firmware blobs and binary drivers. Installing a modern linux distro is painless. ![]() My experience is that almost everything now works out of the box. I mean, actually tried using it … not running it in a vm to see what bad things you can say about it.Īll i can say is i start to lose my shit each time i’m forced to use windows. Have you even tried out a modern distro recently? Consoles have to get the majority of their games from the big box stores on a disc, and these games rarely go on sale at these stores and have a price in in the $40-70 range that takes a very long time to come down. But the comp gets it’s games primarily via Steam, GOG, Desura and the like, and can buy game keys from other shops, with sales ranging from 30-90% off, even for new games. When it comes to cost, the consoles have about the same up front cost a a midrange, GPU heavy gaming comp. Yes, having the capability to run the game far in excess of 60hz, 120hz or 144Hz is actually a good thing, you want them that way so that you can run with vSync on and never have slowdowns while having the graphics are turned way up.Ĭonsoles also use vSync, but instead of running at 60Hz, they cap the framerate at only 30hz and still have to turn the graphics settings down to maintain that 30hz framerate because the GPU was only upper midrange when it was new and wont be upgraded for 7 years, yet they still have to play new games released over those 7 years, many of which will be released on the comp which will be far faster. I can play pretty much all of your console games on my comp via emulation. In other words, don’t be a hypocrite, my friend. ![]() Why stress the negatives? Enjoy the fact that there is yet another platform for GoG games instead bashing said platform. Fact is, for me at least, some games run just as good (if not better) on GNU/Linux, which allows me to enjoy the game instead of worrying about whether I’m giving Windows enough of my time. But if my Wii didn’t do such a great job emulating the SNES, I’d still have an SNES. If the game runs the same, yes we can forget the platform. I know we are geeks, but we should forget the plateform when we are dealing with games… I had a Dreamcast, countless fun games, even though the graphics are now subpar with what can be found today.ĭitto again, it was and is my favorite console. I still have the Wii, and I use it to emulate all the former Nintendo consoles, as well as Sega Genesis and below. I had a GameCube and, boy, Starfox Adventures was priceless. I bet some people get fun with Wii games. It makes for a more immersive, less distracting experience. I’ll take smooth, vSync’d graphics on Linux over jerky, tearing graphics on Windows any day. Not for every game, but in this particular case, yes. The big question is : will you have more F.U.N with 100-120fps instead of 60-80? Will better graphics render the game more F.U.N to play with ? ![]()
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