If more professional commercial game developers started supporting Linux, then it would be useful for a distro to support such a close-and-reopen-desktop feature.
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Honestly, just drop KDE/Gnome and run a light WM. Fluxbox, Openbox, ect. are all good, and require almost nothing system-wise.
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I won't be touching Vista. I've done my move to Linux and I love it.
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Here's what I found in the man 1 xinit doc: Code:
XINITRC This variable specifies an init file containing shell commands to start up the initial windows. Code:
export XINITRC="~/.xinitrc.ut2004" ; startx Code:
unset XINITRC I can't try this now as I'm at the office and I don't have any tryable games here, but I shall do ASAP |
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I find this thought difficult to manage. Windows OSes take an average of six years to be released. Six years. In the past six years, we've found hundreds of thousands of flaws and vulnerabilities with Windows XP. And then we think that a new system will be better? Just when you thought it was safe to go swimming, someone drains the pool. Looks can kill, but so can a poorly designed OS. And so far, I've seen nothing else from MS. |
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mv ~/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc.bak |
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The nVidia's 7900GTX shipment that I was expecting got canceled... dammit... Today I bought online this one (Mexico-hosted page, in spanish) and I'm hoping to have it in my hands on two weeks or less time... |
I am going to stay with Mac OS X and Linux.
I am pretty much proficient in OS X, and I just got started learning Unix\Linux. Mac OS X Tiger is capable of runnin on even G3 of 1999. There is no question if Vista is going to be even close to this in terms of supported hardware. So far, I love Mac and I fell in love with Linux from the first sight too (Fedora Core 5 & Puppy). Why should I even think about Vista? Gaming? There is plenty of games for Mac already, and, I guess, since its popularity is on the rapid rise, there will be more games for Mac in a year or two. Otherwise, Mac and Linux satisfy all my digital needs. It feels so good not to be brainwashed by MS! Speaking of the other people, probably most of grandpas and grandmoms, for whom a computer is a kind of internet-enabled TV, would need to use whatever comes on the machine they buy (unless they go for Mac). If they preinstall it on the new PCs one day - an average brainwashed PC user will have no choice. |
I really like Macs a lot too because that an old Mac was my first computer and throughout elementary school that's what we had. But walmart doesn't sell Macs for $350 (like my fairly up to date cheap Intel+Windows system), or at all, where I live. I don't think I've even seen them at Circuit City.
There are very few commercial games that interest me anymore. Freeware games are more fun and I should learn how to program myself instead of just playing them all the time. The only commercial game series that interests me that much is Grand Thef t Auto, and maybe super smash bros. I might get a Wii at some point, but if GTA4 is not released for Linux, I will not buy it on any platform. (PS3 and Xbox360 both look very disappointing.) I doubt that GTA4 will be for any OS other than Windows but I hate using Windows especially for gaming. |
I dont care what games are released. I am happy with the games I have at the moment.
Pretty soon, I hope to only be using windows as a gaming machine, and for work. I wont be upgrading to vista, except if I can get it for free. Windows XP serves my needs just fine at the moment. for everything else, there's linux |
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