the operating system thread

[abtom]

Thanks Sushubh.which one do i use for gaming?

 

[Sushubh]

umm as i said linux is not something u would want for games. few native games are available. and complicated windows games would not be able to work on it.

wine is a make shift solution which does not work for all games and is not recommended for people who are new to linux.


i suggest you install ubuntu using WUBI to see what Linux is all about.

That ways you would not mess up your windows OS installation and would get to see what linux is all about.

 

[abtom]

so first i have to install linux. i can use both windows and linux on my pc on 2 partitions.can i?

 

[Sushubh]

installing a dual boot can get quite complicated.

with wubi it's pretty simple.

but use it during night time as it would download around 700 megs for the linux distro.

just download the application and run it. pick up the partition on ur computer which has enough free disk space. and let it do the hard work.

it would download linux (would take quite sometime). once it is done, you reboot to see an option to run wubi linux... u enter it and you would have a properly installed linux!

Wubi - Screenshots

wubi install linux inside a folder on ur disk which u can see using your windows. it's totally unlike regular installations of linux which require partitions.

 

[torrentbhai]

never used mac but would like to try...what hard disk partition systems does mac support and where do i get the latest of mac oswhich is newer leopard or tiger..

 

[abtom]

wubi installs only ubuntu or does it also install linux?there is a choice to select btw ubuntu and some other untu's,which one do is select?

 

[sam999]

ok,games, ease of use, lots of support = windows xpstability, graphics = linuxstyle, ease of use, graphics = mac/mac probest = windows xp, after few months windows vista.

 

[abtom]

@Sushubh-u r very helpful.Thanks a lot.:yahoo::thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[Sushubh]

abtom... u can pick any one between ubuntu or kubuntu. i suggest the latter. both are technically the same. just the front end is different. one uses gnome the other uses kde.

 

[Apoorv Khatreja]

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