Linux Semi Noob

Living-Dead-ChildLiving-Dead-Child Detroit New
edited October 2006 in Science & Tech
I was Cert. in Unix in '98. Have not used it since.

Now I am thinking of going competly over to Linux. I plan on using PCLinuxOS SuperGamer, as I play City of Heros. So My questions are

01. Is Wine stable enough and good enough to use and play City of Heros? I have and AMD 1.7 gig processer and 1 gig of ram.

02. Is there software of could I use Wine to sync my palm?

03. Is this a stupid idea?

Comments

  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    For all your "does Wine..." questions: http://appdb.winehq.org
    Specifically: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=2980

    Erm, that Wine entry is a mess, I'll see if I can clear it up but I'd not expect it to run from that. You could look into Cedega, but people generally aren't too keen on them due to their... business ethics.

    I'd go with a different Linux distro though. Any distro will run Wine, no need to run a not-particually-mainstream one just because it comes with Wine.

    02: Not sure but there is lots of Linux software to Sync your palm so I'd use that.
    03: Erm.. no?
  • Living-Dead-ChildLiving-Dead-Child Detroit New
    edited October 2006
    Enverex wrote:
    For all your "does Wine..." questions: http://appdb.winehq.org
    Specifically: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=2980

    Erm, that Wine entry is a mess, I'll see if I can clear it up but I'd not expect it to run from that. You could look into Cedega, but people generally aren't too keen on them due to their... business ethics.

    I'd go with a different Linux distro though. Any distro will run Wine, no need to run a not-particually-mainstream one just because it comes with Wine.

    02: Not sure but there is lots of Linux software to Sync your palm so I'd use that.
    03: Erm.. no?


    OK, so it will not work with Wine, yet, is there a work around the problem, so I could still use Linux?

    And could you suggest a Linux distrobution for someone like myself.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Erm, it may work with the latest Wine, it may not, I don't have the game to test it and the Wine crew don't know (obviously as none of them have it).

    I'm not sure where you stand with Linux so I'll take the easy root and just say Ubuntu (it's not a bad distro anyway, just limited due to being binaries). Distros are mainly all based around choice though, so I'd find one that you like the look of... I just don't know how well your abilities still stand.

    CoH apparently does work on Cedega though: http://cedegawiki.sweetleafstudios.com/wiki/City_of_Villains
  • Living-Dead-ChildLiving-Dead-Child Detroit New
    edited October 2006
    How do gamers who run Linux run thier games? What is the typical scenario?
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    I use Wine for the games it does run. If it doesn't then... I don't buy/play it.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    I only buy Linux-native games like the stuff Epic and Id release. If it isn't Linux-native I don't play it. I have Wine but I've only tried to play EA games with it, unsuccessfully. I wasn't trying very hard though.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    EA's games don't tend to work too well. There are a few games that work perfectly that I remember such as Diablo 1/2, Starcraft, Kingpin, Baldur's Gate (1/2), Deus Ex, GTA 2/3 and amazingly Prey. It's hit and miss if a game isn't in the AppDB though.
  • jhenryjhenry California's Wine Country
    edited October 2006
    Living Dead Child wrote:
    How do gamers who run Linux run thier games? What is the typical scenario?

    Have Windows installed on another partition and use

    It's the only surefire way to have the games run, since nobody seems to care about cross compatibility.

    Make sure your bootloader entry is hidden. Call it Mandrake or something. They'll never look there, it's too softcore. Otherwise you'll piss off hardcore Linux guys... Especially those debian nuts. They'll pee all over your keyboard for blashpeming linux.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Dual-booting is an alright solution if you don't mind rebooting anytime you want to play a game. I guess if you grew up during the DOS ages you're used to that sort of thing but over time I found it too much of a hassle. Besides, Living Dead Child stated he didn't want to run Windows on his machine.

    On another note, my success rate with getting grub compiled for x86-64 to load 32-bit OSes is nil. It seems to work okay on my Athlons and P3s (Gentoo and Kubuntu) but not on my AMD64 Gentoo machine.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Living Dead Child wrote:
    And could you suggest a Linux distrobution for someone like myself.
    I'm recommending Ubuntu and Kubuntu for anyone that's not intimately familiar with Linux. Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian with the GNOME desktop environment while Kubuntu is a derivative of Ubuntu using the K desktop environment. I've decided that I personally prefer GNOME but you may like KDE.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • jhenryjhenry California's Wine Country
    edited October 2006
    KDE has a real windowsy feel to it, so I also prefer Gnome...

    However, KDE will make the transition much easier than a direct jump to gnome.

    If you'd like to try out Kubuntu, and don't have the bandwidth to download the cd's, let me know... Canonical sent me a five pack some time ago and i've got a couple extras...
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    drasnor wrote:
    Dual-booting is an alright solution if you don't mind rebooting anytime you want to play a game. I guess if you grew up during the DOS ages you're used to that sort of thing but over time I found it too much of a hassle. Besides, Living Dead Child stated he didn't want to run Windows on his machine.

    On another note, my success rate with getting grub compiled for x86-64 to load 32-bit OSes is nil. It seems to work okay on my Athlons and P3s (Gentoo and Kubuntu) but not on my AMD64 Gentoo machine.

    -drasnor :fold:

    Never had a problem with 64bit Grub on my machines booting any other thing (Windows, CDs, other distros, etc). The "bitness" of Grub shouldn't have any effect on anything.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Enverex wrote:
    Never had a problem with 64bit Grub on my machines booting any other thing (Windows, CDs, other distros, etc). The "bitness" of Grub shouldn't have any effect on anything.
    Good to know. I suppose I didn't have it configured properly which happens fairly regularly for me. My dual-boot success rate isn't terribly high on the x86 side either.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Need any help on any of it? It's quite simple once you're used to it...
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Naw, I realized after not booting my main machine into Windows for 8 months that it probably wasn't even necessary to begin with and formatted my Windows partitions. I have a Windows laptop and HTPC around if I ever really need to use it.

    -drasnor :fold:
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