For those asking, 'What's the best version of Linux'

Thats a pretty sweet site. I got recommended "SuSe" and "Mandriva".

how about the mandrake........mandrake is good version too............but i am asking how can i play a windows games like Online games (ex. world of warcraft,RFOnline,other RPG games)..........

and how about xandros is he compatible to the windows game that i mentioned earlier............

you're not speaking clearly. did you even go to the site?
and the games working isn't exactly distro specific. i'm not sure about online gameplay but i would imagine it wouldn't be much different than any other gameplay which you would accomplish with cedega ( http://www.transgaming.com )
oh, and mandrake isn't called mandrake anymore since they merged with another linux company. now they're mandriva. and i agree, i have a dual boot system with the mandriva 2006.0 free ed. and it works great. i dont have dependancy problems at all which is extremely rare. i'm quite surprised at that. but yea...if you dont want to pay for cedega, you could always try running your games with wine ( http://www.winehq.org ) but its not as sure fire that they'll work..

dont even bother with wine for games. wine is very basic with little compatability. for gaming its gonna be cedega all the way. one of my buddies from college told me that linux machines running games with cedega have actualy out benchmarked pcs.
but i find that kind of hard to believe. i would try cedega out myself but i have an ati card on my linux box and any linux user will tell you how much of a bitch ati cards are to get working. i have never to this day been able to get 3d acceleration with an ati card.

when i had a Radeon 9600 I got it to work in linux.
yes, it was a b**ch, lol
and i think my geforce mx4000 outperforms it lol but only in linux.

but i've actually seen benchmark results of linux + wine vs. windows from benchmarking programs, and the linux results were higher on most tests. there were some exceptions, but i was pretty surprised..

its quite sad really. i think i would of actually gotten my radeon to work this one time. everything was going smoothly and i think all that was left was rebooting. but i never did dont remember why. i just popped my nvidia back in and was just fine. its just now i have windows on that machine as well so i use the radeon.

To be honest, If playing games is one of your main concerns when picking an OS, Linux isn't for you.

*nods*
its true.

there are a variety of nice free games out there for linux or better yet crossplatform. quite addicting but yeah nothing that equalls the quality of alot of these newer pc titles coming out.

heh, funny one. Though one could play quite a lot of games if you fiddle around enough

Loki Games, AFAIK, have ports for many common games, and funny enough Quake seems to work much better on Linux (on same PC) than windows

what version of quake?

Uh, Q3

That test gave me the same two distro's of linux im using now

I was told to use Mandriva and Fedora Core..... Hmm, I like Suse and Ubuntu though

i like suse and fedora.
ubuntu doesn't like my x800

i was figuring it was Q3...i'll have to give that a try.


tom, what distro's are those?