And... goodbye Microsoft!

[wolfwings]

Took the plunge yesterday... tried to set up a dual-boot Windows/Linux for a'while, got tired of driver issues. Then realized I had a 64-bit Ubuntu DVD I picked up for free from my new job (yay for Linux geeks keeping stockpiles!) and decided to just say 'screw it' and give the automated stuff a try.

Um... wow.

City of Heroes. Almost worked out of the box, DID work fully after I manually upgraded to the latest Wine instead of the included-on-DVD version that was about 6-8 months out of date.

Steam, and Half-Life 2. Again, worked out of the box. No issues playing Team Fortress 2.

Again... wow. Holy crap. Screw dual-boot, Linux Just Works these days. =O.o=

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Still takes a bit of planning...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

...mostly because there is are a few video-cards that still have poor support, in particular the non-dedicated-video-RAM cards from ATI require the propietary ATI driver still, and DX10 stuff isn't revealed for emulation under Linux, but most other stuff works.

Largest obstacle I'm running into is Steam: The disk caching under Linux is so effective I keep hitting race conditions starting some games, something that can happen under even plain XP, and is remarkably common under Vista though since it finally got some decent disk-cache logic as well. MMORPG's by-and-large Just Work™.