Someone told me I should try this out as an alternative to windows. I basicly use windows to watch my anime on .avi and listen to my mp3's. Am I going to have any issues getting my nvidia graphics and NForce sound working on this with minimal headache?

Nvidia have had Linux graphics card drivers for a few years now. When you have installed Fedora, go to the Nvidia website and select the drivers as you would if you were doing it for Windows (but choose Linux, of course).

Read the instructions carefully and make sure you follow them closely. The only time I failed to install the drivers correctly was when I didn't follow the instructions.

now id rather not have to duel boot to play call of duty 2. I was told I could use wine for it, does it work for windows made games that run on directx?

If you like how your things work in Windows, then use Windows. I mean, the concepts and philosophy for lots of things are very different in Linux; and it doesn't work very well as "an alternative". There will be lots of figuring out and "headaches" so you should only use Linux because you really want to.

Fedora Core doesn't come with MP3 support or very good media players or proprietary Nvidia drivers. The proper ways to get MP3 support and to get Nvidia drivers in Fedora Core are described here (don't use Nvidia's installer). Fedora has Wine, but I don't know how well your game works with it.

The reason I wanted to switch was to get away from all the adware, registry cleaning, viruses, nad overall crappiness after running windows for 6 months. Its just not a good long term solution, I have to keep maintaining it constantly.

that's a good enough reason ...but like spooon said, the phylosphy around gnu/linux is very different. ...hm, here's an idea ..if you really wanna get the hang of it, find some of Richard Stallman's work ..alternaively see Revolution OS .... and about wine, ..id's suggest cedega if you wanna run games but yes the concept behind it all to provide and emulated environmet for games that were built to work under windows with directx

ok I installed Fedora and im currently running it at the momment. I must say this was easier then mandriva AND my sound works. Now im just havin a small issue with trying to find my other files on my windows hard drive so I can test video playback. Where the heck is my windows drive?

Give some information about your system:

1) on what FS is your windows, fat32 or ntfs?

Also, you must install multimedia codecs, look at this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=449441

the file system is NTFS

Then, if you did steps above, you can also search for "ntfs" in yumex, just install it, reboot and make some changes to mount it to some folder. I consider your windows is on "C:" drive (you can check it, by installing gparted program):

Note: All these steps should me made as root, in terminal you can get root rights using "su" command (super user)

1) Create folder for your ntfs drive, for example:

you can create directory anywhere you want, and pick any name, but it will be good of u will mount win partition to /windows or /mnt/windows or /mnt/drive_c.

2) Update your /etc/fstab file:

and add a line there:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0

close, and save it.
Reboot your computer, and you should now able to access your windows files from your favourite file manager in directory you specified before. Note that you are able only to read ntfs drives, you have only very limited ntfs write support (overwriting files with the same name, no creating, cutting, copying folders or files).

P.S. Also, you can have a look at here, for more options:

http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...ion_notes.html

Cheers