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Originally Posted by terrysirup
[*]How about gaming in general? New and old (possibly DOS games or Emulators)?
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Some games run now better in linux as on windows.
Most DOSGAMES can be played online on some webpages I found. I am not sure if it is java or flashbased. Too lazy to check.
I use dosbox regularly for DOSGAMES. The manual sucks but it works decently.
As I use dated hardware, IVYBRIDGE notebook with dated 660m GTX from nvidia, I use wine for gaming.
windows games which are based up to directx9 should work. e.g. CRYSIS from gOG.com works. mount&Blade from GOG.com works. Uplay is a pain to configure. windows steam works for a few games but not every game I have.
The information of the wine homepage regarding games and software is most of the time wrong for myself. It could be that a long term linux user like myself misconfigure wine. The error messages of wine are hard to interpret.
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also there is the possibility of VGA passthrough to a windows virtual box. This depends on your hardware. My dated notebook can not handle such a thing according to the docs I have read so far.
some copy protections including securom does not work anymore in windows 10. and other games can be only installed around 5 times.
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Gaming is possible in linux. You may also use the fake ubuntu "linux steam = steamos??" steam client.
And there are other emulators available which i used in the past.
I'm quite a long time on linux.
For myself these windows games does not exists. Always beeing connected to the net to run it, even in singleplayer mode. Download 50GiB is nuts for a single game.
You can also still dualboot to just game.
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Will I be able to torrent and install ISO or DRM FREE Games? What should I look for?
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anything drm free is better to use on linux.
if possible i would avoid any games based on uplay or steam.
those free games handed out of GOG always worked. others sometimes work, especially uplay and steam
steam games very often needs here some config file hack, which is hard to find, to force down to directx 9 or disable shaders or other technical stuff.
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How about my Gaming Mouse/Keyboard from Tree Frog (Canadian - London Drugs); or my Razor Mouse/Keyboard? I like to game.
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I can only talk about gentoo linux, as I use it for 13 years by now.
There is an overlay, or was it github software, for razer based gaming mice.
I have not tested it as the build quality of the mice is too low for the asked price in my point of view.
I had 5 razer copṕerhead. After that I tried out several gaming mice from razer and sent all back. the firmware of those mice is just bad in my point of view with an electronics background. I use now some cheap japanese mouse (30 Euros on amazon) with hardware dpi keys on the bottom. No software fiddling around anymore.
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You can start with linux mint. But slight warning. You may be soon annoyed because of lack of customisation. linux mint is not very costomise able. When you like what you get out of the box use it. It is quite fast and easy to set it up. But when you have a lot to configure, and you want to tweak a lot, and you want to customise a lot, than you may be better of with gentoo.
Also note, linux mint is I suppose for the windows audience or macbook audience.
Linux mint does not really means that you are using all kind and types of gnu linux. it is just a little piece of what it's possible.
I changed over the years the software quite often until i settled to something which suits my working habits.
linux mint is just for something to deploy and forget about it.
when you do not want to bother much with it go with linux mint.
when you want to learn and change everything in the long run go with gentoo.
i highly doubt ubuntu / linux mint does enforce the user to learn something.
