With the ending of some work I just had to do in win, I'm happy to say: today is the day! After dual booting for about 6 years I can finally say I'm crap free (well, pc wise that is) Thanx guys, for all the help and suggestions and make me able to build the (Debian Sid & Slack) linux system that fills all my need (expect for shockwave but that's something linux can't help). Learning never ends so I'll probably be around bugging you and (in a few chases) helping someone else out.....

Regards

gratz. someday i hope to be able to follow in that path. working hard on it.

Kudos to you, Powadha!

However attractive the idea of a world without Gates and Windows is to me, I will always be a Multi-Booter.

I will always install and evaluate new distros, I will always keep 2 or 3 'old reliables' installed (Debian ROCKS!!) and maintained, and I will always be a gamer.

For better or worse, Little Billy Gates' OSes are the standard platform all really good new releases are set up to use (well, most use DirectX9b, anyway) so rather than argue with Wine all day, or fight an nVidia install into a rock-solid kernel I'd like to keep that way, I just boot up my -very- housebroken copy of XP Pro to do my serious gaming with.

It will never see the light of day on the Internet, but it does support all my next-gen hardware flawlessly (new GeForce, Audigy LS soundcard, ect.) so I really think I will keep it.

Besides, as a professional PC tech, I need to be able to access files on FAT32 and NTFS HDDs as well as journalled and EXT2 file systems properly.

So, all I can say is, to each his own! I am happy for you, but I post this as a reminder that ditching Windoze entirely is not always the end-all, be-all of being a knowledgeable geek! True enough, compared to a well-compiled and maintained Debian or Slack kernel an install of box-stock XP is a weak sister....but if properly maintained even an operating system like XP can surprise you occasionally with its aptitude for certain things.

Given unlimited funds I would have two identical gaming rigs, one set up with two 200GB HDDs and about twelve distros at onve, and a separate rig, off by itself, just for gaming....but I can't justify that, so I use one rig for both. Not that there are any problems with that; not with a 160GB RAID0 with a separate 80GB Linux HDD and G.A.G. bootloader playing nice on the MBR, anyhow!!

Best regards,

FastVFR

Grats man. I have been kinda dreading the getting rid of 'doze and going straight Linux. Well after doing the reinstall of FC1 on my Win2K/FC1 box my Win partition got borked. I was able to retrieve the data but I will not reinstall Win2K or anyother MS product now. It's sink or swim time for me.

That's a big point for you. I never really was a gamer until recently when I (for testing) installed Enemy Territory for linux. Testing became quite an addiction and some friends pointed me to some other games I'd like to try. And there you go......for most games I'm gonna need win sooner or later since, like you mentioned, wine is not really optimal.

I guess when a new pc arrives I probably make it dual boot for gaming aswell. For now my XP1700+ processor and ATI9600 won't give me much action in newer games so no reason to keep XP alive. My other clients (2) are even older (used as servers, PIII) no gaming there either. With all the latest developments like pci express, new slots on boards and so on, I'll wait with buying something until I'm sure whatever I buy can be upgraded for more then 6 months. Until then it's Enemy Territory on linux!

Regards

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Let us know how you get on.

I too am stuck in windows for Gamming I got most of my games to work under linux but wine and winex still have some issues with a few of my games...but I have a gaming box with XP pro that all it has on it is games and nothing else...but I use Linux for every thing else under the sun

I guess a lot of people just don't know anything else then M$ and don't look further. A friend was trying to get his hands on a native version of Office. Like a lot of them it worked for a while but after an upgrade it al broke down. I pointed him to OpenOffice and he never looked back. There are a lot of apps, even for win, that are bases on opensource. Just a shame that most commercial game developers (and macromedia btw) just ignore linux. It would be great to have the same gaming in linux. But he....for anything else but gaming its now al Deb, that's not gonna change anymore!