The PC

[alex]

you got to love pc's my speck is:
AMD 64 3400+
512MB PC3200 RAM
200GB
128MB ATI RADEON 9800 PRO
17" TFT LCD MONITOR

need more ram but o well....

[Neumie]

Nice. On another note i just had a mad idea (i get these, don't worry if you are further than 3 miles away). As you may know Intel and AMD are going multi core, I.E. a single processor die will have at least 2 processors on them. So heres my idea.
This time next year you should be able to build a pc which has 2 intel 64 bit dual core hyperthreaded processors and put them on one motherboard. Thats (carry the 2... divide by Pie...) 8 Processors. 8 PROCESSORS, running at 4GHz Each AND each a 64bit processor. Then theres SLI (technology that allows 2 graphics cards 2 work together for better performance). So thats 8 64 bit processors, each running at 4Ghz with 2 Geforce 7900 (or whatever next gen cards will be called) running on up to 2 terrabytes of PC 25600 ram. Oh holy god.
Of course it will cost you organs and you might have to do a few hit jobs aswel to pay for it but THAT is power. Now we only need apps that could take advantage of it.
Well thats my mad idea.

[plmars]

Originally Posted by Luineancaion

plmars gentoo now quick!! I can't believe you are wasting that away with a 32bit operating system with 32bit apps, what a sad sad waste :( oh man I'd love to try out the 64bit version of UT2004 that was only made for GNU/Linux :(

Had Gantoo, then Fedora Core, I even had Win XP 64bit eddition Beta 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. The only problem is that I work as a web developer. I need Flash. We talked about that before. LOL

[Luineancaion]

Originally Posted by plmars

Had Gantoo, then Fedora Core, I even had Win XP 64bit eddition Beta 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. The only problem is that I work as a web developer. I need Flash. We talked about that before. LOL

Dual boot then? Do you always work with flash? *grrr at too many flash sites* flash shoud be made into free-software (open source) because I have a few friends using 64bit gentoo but of course macromedias stupid flash player is still only available in 32bit, if we had the source it'd probably be about 10 minutes before there was a 64bit version.

You did see that flash editor that I found right? It's still very much in developement, it'd be nice if some company could sponsor the guy so that he could put more time into it.

[plmars]

I had dual boot. Didnt work out right. Sata Raid 0, with like 5 partitions (1 for windows, 1 for linux boot, 1 for swap, 1 for linux stuff, 1 for cross platform data) is too much maintnance. LOL. I'm fine with win. Windows is not a bad system, there is just a lot badly written applications. If you did some programing courses, you will know what I mean. Programing for Unix is so much nicer though.

[Luineancaion]

Yea, I'm self teaching myself, I just don't learn well in a course enviroment :\ I'm doing a course now in web development, but it's tottally lost my interest now so I sit here teaching myself C, stuff like javascript and that just bore me because it's so easy but also so limited. I also like being able to tweak my OS to perfection, though gentoo goes too far into obserdity with the tweaking, but I use it because it's just so simple to use.

I don't see why flash-player hasn't been made into free-software, they give it away for free, so whats the problem in sharing the source code? Perhaps too many rudely named variables :P

As far as PC gaming goes, I've gotten bored of it, it's good for stratergy, but the PC market is just flooded with first person shooters & that gets boring.

Oh some RPG's are okay, but I don't like the ones where you have to first buy the software, and then pay to be allowed to even play it, and then they quote that they need to money for server mainatnence, BS! If only 100,000 people (and there are much more) were playing word of warcraft and paying $20 a month that's still $2M a month, and no amount of game servers cost that much per month to maintain.

*EDIT* I forgot to mention planeshift, this is looking like great RPG and is free-software & will have no on going charges, it's still in development, last time I tried it on windows at my friends it seemed real laggy, but that could have just been his internet.

[Pilot_51]

My only real problem with open source is that there's so many freaking versions of stuff that basically does the same thing, it's hard to know what's the best. I tried Linux Mandrake 9.0 about 3 times, I found out how to play the built-in games and a few other simple programs, but everything else just puzzles me. I can see myself taking months to find out how to set up a server, but that's probably just cause I prefer teaching myself over reading For Dummies books, asking friends and Google searching is usually what I do when I'm totally lost, which usually doesn't help half the time. I'm happy with Windows, it does what I like to do very well, which is gaming and chatting. I'll learn Linux one of these days, but it's not a priority since I can do just about everything I need to do with what I use now.

I'm a big FPS fan, but even then I only pick a few favorites and ditch the rest. I like BF1942 and Quake and UT2004, but I don't really like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty since it's all the same stuff to me.
I don't play RPG's much, although I've been addicted to one on PSX and Golden Sun. There's only one MMOG I play, which is downloaded software (or a free CD in mail for dialup users) and $5/year for basic membership, I'm a member from the beta days so I have lifetime membership (cost me a one-time $30 I needed to pay in a small time slot). I refuse to go with any other MMOG that costs, because they're all too expensive and I don't want to let addiction take me away from the games I'm already addicted to. BTW that one MMOG I play is called There, and it's not an RPG, more like a virtual world or second life, whatever you want to call it.

[Cyb0rgNinj4]

Hahahahhah compys own all becasue they EMULATE SYSTEMS!!!!!

ZSNES, NESticle, PS2 and PSX emulators availabe, Xbox and GCN ones in works,
VisualBoy Advance

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[Luineancaion]

Pilot, it sounds like you just need someone that you can ask for help if you run into any problems.

One problem that you've mentioned is the choice, for windows users it's so confusing because they just don't really know what they want, there isn't really any best thing, it's whats best for you. The confusion of choice I see as like peoplle coming out of eastern Germany when the wall came down and standing in shops for hours trying to decide what to buy because they had never had so much choice before.

If your smart enough to do HTML then you're smart enough to install gentoo, I recommend this distro because it'll teach you heaps, and once you have it set up it's super easy to use, though it takes a long time to install & you want a fairly powerful machine, otherwise if you want something that's easy to use and set up in 10 minutes I recommend yoper.

Anyway, if you ever feel like switching PM me with any questions you have and I'll be happy to help :)

Oh those games you mentioned, only one I miss is bf1942 (though this runs in cedega) UT2004 and Doom3 all run natively in GNU/Linux :)

[Neumie]

I use mandrake 10.1 and i have to say i thought it was great at first but oh the bugs. You call Windows buggy? The search function doesn't even work, i cant patch it and basically its a disaster. I'm just waiting to see if i can get gentoo off of a mag cover since i only have a dingy 56k connection. The only good thing about mandrake is the installer (ok thats harsh it does have its good points). The big problem with linux (and the main reason it can't compete with windows for home users) is that you still need to use the command line. For some people thats fine (i like messing around a bit and it can be quite powerful) but for most they just want to click a button and a program installs or it can be easily configured. Its getting better but basically for every command line that is required 50% of your potential audience are lost.
If they can get rid of the need for the command line then Linux will be much more competitive in my opinion.