Is Linux Good??

[Guest]

I have Vista 32 bit on my 8 year old pc (bought it when vista was new). Is Linux better to use, i usually surf the web, but i also play games though. Even if my PC is old, its pretty powerful, but vista is feeling slow, clean install wont help, and i dont wanna buy a new OS. I dont know annything about Linux, so correct me if im wrong. (Sorry for my bad English)

 

[Remixex]

Lynux has virtually no games, some are supported but i think most of them are fairly new, i use a linux in the university to write in latex and other stuff, i also surf the web and there aren't many problems with that, but yeah games is a no-go, and i don't want to promote piracy so...i guess my answer is over...

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the answer Remixex

Guess i keep using vista then....

 

[randomizer]

The gaming situation is improving (particularly for Valve's games), but it's still well behind Windows and that is going to be the case for a long time. However, even if games were not an issue you shouldn't switch to Linux without expecting it to behave very differently to Windows. If you dive in head first hoping for a free copy of Vista that's lighter on the system you'll be running back within a day.

 

[stillblue]

Thanks for the answer Remixex

Guess i keep using vista then....

You could also do a dual boot and revert to vista for games and do the rest in linux, not like it costs anything to try it out.

 

[ftball]

I disagree with current answer. Linux has plenty of games. Any game that runs on 8 year pc with vista will also run trough wine. I myself enjoy older games, such as Warcraft 2,3, Heroes 4, Disciples 2. Warcrafts run the same on Win7, 8, and Ubuntu. H4and D2 run much much faster on Ubuntu.

 

[Ijack]

Not true. For example, FSX doesn't run properly using Wine. Some games may run with varying degrees of success; the only way to be sure is to try on your particular system.

Games playing via Wine is not the smooth, easy experience that you get with real Windows.

 

[randomizer]

If gaming was something I did infrequently then using Wine would be fine. If gaming was one of the primary uses of my PC I would not bother with Linux unless the game was natively supported.

 

[skittle]

Honestly this is reason I bought PS4. I use my computer for work. Of course there are some Linux games I play like TF2 or or CS:S...