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omnicloud
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 Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 10:30 am Post subject: I'm thinking of abandoning Gentoo until I get a new computer |
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Gentoo is great and all, but I am a gamer, and Gentoo isn't meeting my gaming needs.
When I get a second computer to have one dedicated to each OS, then I'll come back, but until then, I'll be going back to windows.
As soon as I find my windows CD, I may format. |
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Jakub
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 10:50 am Post subject: |
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| Bye bye and good luck. |
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amne
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 11:22 am Post subject: |
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Moved from Off the Wall to Gentoo Chat since this is about Gentoo.
Finally someone who doesn't complain but simply state Gentoo isn't fulfilling some of his requirements. cheers. |
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s3ntient
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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shouldn't we have like one main thread where everyone leaving Gentoo can post their last message on these forums?
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greasy_grasshopper
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Why did we need to know this? |
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stevenaleach
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| Heh? So what, there's a game specific distro now? That is at once scary, pointless, and sad. |
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G.N.A.
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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Anyone that gets gentoo to play games is better off cutting off a birch branch and rapping it across their backs all day.
Games = Windows. Its just easier.
Use gentoo for what its good for, use windows for what its good for.. be a happy boy. |
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skyfolly
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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what a shame, you can always dual boot!!!
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omnicloud
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't have enough collective hard drive space for a dual boot system. |
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loki99
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| G.N.A. wrote: | Anyone that gets gentoo to play games is better off cutting off a birch branch and rapping it across their backs all day.
Games = Windows. Its just easier.
Use gentoo for what its good for, use windows for what its good for.. be a happy boy. |
have you tried it? obviously not!
because over here ut2004, for example, runs noticably better than under xp! i'd say, it depends what kind of games you want to play.
so if you don't mind, i use my gentoo for whatever suits me!  |
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omnicloud
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, 2004 was nice, but I want to play WoW without all the extra work and other such things. Ragnarok Online Private Servers. Lots of stuff. |
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loki99
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| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| omnicloud wrote: | | Yeah, 2004 was nice, but I want to play WoW without all the extra work and other such things. Ragnarok Online Private Servers. Lots of stuff. |
use whatever suits you best! i was just talking about myself!  |
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wjholden
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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| loki99 wrote: | | G.N.A. wrote: | Anyone that gets gentoo to play games is better off cutting off a birch branch and rapping it across their backs all day.
Games = Windows. Its just easier.
Use gentoo for what its good for, use windows for what its good for.. be a happy boy. |
have you tried it? obviously not!
because over here ut2004, for example, runs noticably better than under xp! i'd say, it depends what kind of games you want to play.
so if you don't mind, i use my gentoo for whatever suits me! |
Seconded. I'm a happy Cedega user man, and native UT2004 is wonderful. Back to my homework now   |
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bluedevils
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| Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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And buying another PC is cheaper?
| omnicloud wrote: | | I don't have enough collective hard drive space for a dual boot system. |
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| Games are a waste of time to me and I only play them when I have absolutely nothing better to do, or I play DDR via StepMania and a dance pad because it is actually physical and different. When I see people going back to Windows for games, I often see them as people who waste too much time. As far as I can see, I am right when I say that but obviously people will play games no matter how much of a time waster they are. So have fun with Windows and do not let it bite you in the arse too much. |
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omnicloud
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 9:58 am Post subject: |
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| bluedevils wrote: | And buying another PC is cheaper?
| omnicloud wrote: | | I don't have enough collective hard drive space for a dual boot system. |
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No, but I've been planning on buying one for a while now. |
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Q-collective
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| omnicloud wrote: | | Yeah, 2004 was nice, but I want to play WoW without all the extra work and other such things. Ragnarok Online Private Servers. Lots of stuff. |
Soon, wine with dx9 will rule the world!!!!!!!!!!11oneonetwothreefour
muhahahaha! |
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u2mike
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It just depends on what games you want to play. Between RTCW, Racer, Wesnoth and UT2004 I am more then happy. Plus cedega works great with most popular games, although I haven't used it for months now it is a good way to get some games where there is no native version.
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The only FPS that can catch my attention for about five minutes is Cube. Check it out people.  BTW, AFAIK the current version in portage is very dated. |
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jamiethehutt
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| omnicloud wrote: | | I don't have enough collective hard drive space for a dual boot system. |
Hard drives cost nothing these days! I've just bought 3 200Gb Western Digitals (3 Year warrenty  ) and that set me back all of £200 including a PCI IDE adaptor!
I currently have 2 80Gb Western Digitals acting as a single 160Gb disk. As soon as I pick these new disks up from my parents (I dont order stuff to my flat, it goes missing if I do...) I'll be pulling one of the 80Gb and setting those 200Gbs into a 400Gb RAID5 array.
I need more disk space very badly, I have a >1Gb a week anime addiction...
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MWalton
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: I'm thinking of abandoning Gentoo until I get a new comp |
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| omnicloud wrote: | Gentoo is great and all, but I am a gamer, and Gentoo isn't meeting my gaming needs.
When I get a second computer to have one dedicated to each OS, then I'll come back, but until then, I'll be going back to windows.
As soon as I find my windows CD, I may format. |
Why do you need to quit if all you are going to do is get a new computer?
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russianpirate
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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Seconded. I'm a happy Cedega user man, and native UT2004 is wonderful. Back to my homework now |
Roger that. Cedega can run most (75%) of my games, which isnt that much, but it still does. The only games that truly dont work on cedega are EA Sports 2002-2005, Need For Speed 5, and some older ones, even San Andreas is beginning to work for most people. |
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electrofreak
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| skyfolly wrote: | | what a shame, you can always dual boot!!! |
No... you can't. For as often as I play games I actually really do use Windows more than Gentoo, so its actually rather pointless to run both. It is actually easier to have 2 seperate machines running one OS each.
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