Vista Launched

**LC Interactive** · 02-02-2007, 09:52 PM

lol, well i dont know anything about Linux, i am always told that it's just pure code and nothing else.

**Fragalot** · 02-02-2007, 11:16 PM

BIG mistake there!
it's just like windows, only better, more powerfull and free

you should look for my screenshots i've posted here... somewhere

**LC Interactive** · 02-03-2007, 03:24 PM

Hmm. so i can install this on a pent 3 and expirement on it.. hmm.. Can i have a version that would be possible to DL that is like Windows

and would i be able to play Windows games on Linux and use Window's Software?

**Fragalot** · 02-03-2007, 11:23 PM

Suse, ubuntu, mandriva, redhat, etc....

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some games and some software are supported via WINE or Cedega, or Crossover-office

Those are emulators, cedega is made pure for games, WINE is the original emulator where all the other emulators are based on, and crossover is a bit all-round.

**LC Interactive** · 02-04-2007, 02:05 PM

so i can play like, Steam, CoD2, AA, Battlefeild's and command and conquers off them?

just making sure

**Fragalot** · 02-04-2007, 09:54 PM

you can check the app databases:
(some games that aren't listed CAN work, but you are only sure if htey are listed.)

and personally, i just dualboot

the games that ARE supported DO run BETTER than in windows..

Wine Application DB - Wine Application Database
CodeWeavers - Compatibility - Browse Apps by Name (commercial, but iirc there is a free package.)
TransGaming Inc. (also commercial,..)

**Sohlside** · 02-05-2007, 07:40 AM

So, back on topic, what is my opinion of Vista? It's a little skit that goes like this:

Bill Gates: I made a new operating system.
Sohlside: Really? Can I see it?
Bill Gates: Not yet. Give me a few days to finish it up.
Sohlside: *waits 3 years*
Bill Gates: Here it is.
Sohlside: Cool skin for Linux/OSX.
Bill Gates: It's not a skin.
Sohlside:Yes it is.
Bill Gates: No it isn't. It's a operating system I made.
Sohlside: You made it?
Bill Gates: Well, I paid some guys to make it for me.
Sohlside: *laughs* That's great Bill. I gotta go. Big LAN party at Josh's house.
Bill Gates: Can I come?
Sohlside: No. Linux will eb there and he knows you've been ripping off his stuff.
Bill Gates: *cries* No one likes me. I'm going to sell crappy software to India!

**Fragalot** · 02-06-2007, 12:14 AM

sohl.. it's 4 years

and they took most new features out of OSX, and so did linux for part of it, but that's mostly 3rd party software, and non-commercial.
(looks at Beryl & XGL & stuff like that)

**Sean** · 02-09-2007, 12:59 PM

I have installed Vista on 2 computers in the last week, one install went good and works fine, but the 2nd pc a Hewlett Packard Bell - i had to update the bios before updating to vista cause the installation would crash half way through.

The new operating system is nothing special at all, a few good features i must admit but mostly GUI updates. If your pc is more than 3 years old u will have trouble with all the fancy GUI taking your system resources.

Personally im going to stick with XP until the end of the year or at least until service pack 1 is released.

**Fragalot** · 02-09-2007, 05:53 PM

I'm using Gentoo Linux.. i already have all the fancy new features

had em for ages

and it even runs on a Pmmx 200Mhz computer... thats about 9year old or something...

talk about flexibillity ^_^

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when i tried Vista on my new box, it didn't run quite well, I only got 4bit color and a 640*... resolution x_X
(mainboard chipset drivers werent out yet)