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want to switch but what
corvette:
i am a gamer and a programmer. i have a 4.3 ghz P4 SLI with 4 gigs of ram and two geforce 7900 512 mb and 4 32 wide screen montiors i play any game out right now and i make webpages for people around so i am a multi propose person and i am getting into linux programming on my laptop which is a 3.0 ghz compaq with gig of ram and a intel exetreme graphics card
Lead Head:
--- Quote from: corvette ---i am a gamer and a programmer. i have a 4.3 ghz P4 SLI with 4 gigs of ram and two geforce 7900 512 mb and 4 32 wide screen montiors i play any game out right now and i make webpages for people around so i am a multi propose person and i am getting into linux programming on my laptop which is a 3.0 ghz compaq with gig of ram and a intel exetreme graphics card
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You do know that windows cannot use more then 3GB of ram unless you have the x86-64 version, and Intel's implimation of x86-64 sucks hard compared to AMDs
worker201:
Unless you work for Lucasfilm, you probably don't need that much damn RAM.
solemnwarning:
--- Quote from: worker201 ---Unless you work for Lucasfilm, you probably don't need that much damn RAM.
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I have 1gig in my machine, and normally my ram usage is around 256mb
Annorax:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---I think he meant a gamer withOUT Windows.
There's the free (as in freedom + price) wine and the non-free cedega[url] to run Windows games on GNU/Linux, but not all games work. Check out the application databases (wine's is [url=http://appdb.winehq.org/]here) to see if they can run what it is you want.
It will always be easier to run Windows applications on Windows, of course. If you use your computer for little more than gaming, switching to GNU/Linux mightn't be a brilliant idea unless you wanna work hard getting the games to work (and not all of them will work anyhow).
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Crossover Office is also useful for non-graphics-intensive things like most poker clients. It's a shame the damn things require "real" ActiveX provided by installing IE in the same bottle... :(
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