Have you actually used a NV HW with Linux during last year or so? In native games they deliver exactly the same performance as they do in Windows. With ATI things are worse but that's because of their non-existent driver team.

Installing the drivers is a breeze. Mostly it takes only a few clicks in package manager. With some distros you also have to manually change a line in X conf file. It is described in the driver's readme file. Takes a minute or so at most. ATI even has a special script that can do it for you, I'm not sure about NV because I haven't felt the need to use that script

With Wine/Cedega I lose around 10-20% of speed in d3d games, most opengl games loose <10% performance. WoW and WC3 were supposed to run faster through Wine than natively on Windows but that might be that the d3d client for windows is not as good as the opengl one.

You do know that wine stands for "Wine Is Not Emulator", do you? They are doing dynamic translation, not emulation.

Might be a stupid question but did you ask for advice from someone?

Try kororaa XGL livecd
If that doesn't work either you have some weird machine.

Now that is what happens when zealots start acting. By their logic, the closed-source drivers have been violating the GPL from day one, even when installed separately.

The original torrent is availiable here, though: http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=1806&name=kororaa-xgl-livecd-0.2.iso.torrent

Closed mind + Closed mind = Closed mind

After discovering why my games weren't running, I now are able to play good games (that is, those made for Windows 9x, like Starcraft, Heroes of Might and Magic III, Counter-Strike, etc). Since I do not care about 5gb games, I am pretty happy with my box. In any case, if I really want to play, I have a SNES with around 30 games (including 15 or so RPGs), and a Nintendo DS.

They're doing emulation all right. They're just trying to avoid the political and memetic baggage that comes with the word "emulation"...

Cookies to Kent Larson! My version KPDF is as bad as trying to read one of those chm help files with IE4.0

Slackware 10.2 or something. But I've already downloaded the AR now

You mean to say you honestly didn't know that Adobe Reader has a Linux version?

Do you have anti-aliasing enabled? Do you use true type fonts?

About a few months ago I installed Suse 9.3. The installation went smoothly and all devices where discovered automatically (even USB drives). The only problem I had was setting up the monitor refresh rate and position: my monitor was not in the list, so I tried a combination of compatible modes, but unfortunately I got stack in a black screen which I got out of by randomly pressing the cursor keys and space/enter.

Then I went on to watch a DVD. I found out I had to install the drivers separately due to licencing issues. I did not know where to turn, so I opened the package installer and downloaded the DVD-related stuff. But the SUSE sites do not include the actual stuff needed, so after lots of browsing, searching, reading FAQs etc I managed to install the proper drivers. Then I watched the DVD I wanted.

Then I went on to write a program. I searched for a C++ IDE; Kdevelop was not included. I downloaded it, upgrading my system in the process. Then I opened a project, selecting the defaults in order to write a hello world. More than 50 files where created, all related to GNU and open source (readme, install, licence, etc). Then I tried to create another project with nothing default, but the created project could not run; the compiler was not set or something.

Then I gave up and went to Windows XP and MSVC++ 8.0.

I have nothing against Linux; it is a fine system, and the interface has become nice. But as I get older, I find it more and more boring to having to type things in the CLI. It is just me though, so I don't expect any sympathies. Maybe I am spoiled by Windows...

That's why I like Dev-Cpp: it uses a .dev file to store a project data, then ussual sources, and after that it only generates necessary files like make, .o files etc.

Which reminds me that I'll miss Dev-Cpp under Linux as well as Winamp and Miranda.

Didn't read any posts (except the first) so I'm probably repeating.

I've just installed Fedora Core 5. I thought by now they'd get their shít together. That's not the case. Each time I install any distro of linux, no matter how user friendly it claims to be, I spend way too much time dicking around with it trying to get it to actually work properly.

Problem 1: I have a 1440x900 LCD monitor. So I selected "Generic LCD 1440x900" (or something like that) for my monitor type. So you'd think it would display 1440x900. Yeah right. I had to fųck around with xorg.conf to finally get it working.

Problem 2: No support for bluetooth it seems. Sometimes the keyboard works, sometimes the mouse works, but only when they feel like it. Fedora doesn't actively do anything for this.

Problem 3: This one really pisses me off, because it is so fųcking basic and has zero to do with hardware compatibility. I decided that I wanted to get just a basic installation of Fedora Core 5 up and running, then install other packages from the CDs post-install. In previous versions, this can be done. Not anymore. It installs them off the internet. Since my bandwidth is severely limited, this is not an option. So I've had to fųck around with yum configuration for fųcking hours upon fųcking hours, creating a local repository and whatnot. It's complaining about missing repomd.xml. Then I managed to get around that (I don't know how) so pirut decided it wanted to throw an unhandled exception. For fųck sake!

Your campaign is absolutely stupid. If you want people to use a new operating system, get them to use something that actually works, straight out of the box. Linux doesn't. It's a total piece of shít.