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Old 08-27-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Hello people, I've had this tight learning curve when I now decided to try out the new release of Fedora9. I've used all the operation systems from Microsoft since MS-DOS and I thought now was the time to move to something else.

It has indeed been interesting, but now the system seems to live quite good side by side with windows xp on my computer. When I've learned how to use the different Linux programs and os to replace the ones i've used in windows I think I'm going to wipe out windows enrtirely but as it is no the 2 systems works fine. And of course I've a lot of games I like playing and I haven't find a good Linux solution to play those games in Linux. Maybe I can learn something through these forums to achieve that

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Welcome to the forums!

I'm not much of a gamer myself, but I understand that Windows games run best on Windows. Since you have payed for a valid Windows license, why not keep a dual boot? Windows XP might as well go down in history as the best gaming platform

And if you're not willing to reserve some GB's for your dual boot, then hopefully you have good luck with Wine or Cedega.
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Thank you!

Of course you're right, in times when hardisks aren't that expensive its not going to cost that much to keep a dual boot and as you pointed out I've paid for the license.

I'm so new to this, it's just a couple of days since I installed Fedora 9 som I'm still fumbling around finding out how to do things, but I'm going to read my self up on how to use Wine and stuff as you suggest, but as I can see it's going to take some time as it is a lot of things I don't understand yet.
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I will offer this warning. Linux doesn't work like windows and its one of the biggest obstacle new users face that come from a world of windows. I will be honest there are times even I get discouraged by something I do in windows I cant in Linux.


Ps I have used wine now for a year for different things and for the most part things work to install and use windows programs but there are exceptions.
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Wine is truly one of the most 'Your Mileage May Vary' apps there is. I have a success rate of (rough estimate) 29.3%. Others have much much better success. It really depends, although I haven't figured out yet on what it depends

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I will offer this warning. Linux doesn't work like windows and its one of the biggest obstacle new users face that come from a world of windows. I will be honest there are times even I get discouraged by something I do in windows I cant in Linux.
Yeah that's true. But so is the opposite. Neither system is perfect. This is frustrating at times. The underlying design philosophies are very different.

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I'm so new to this, it's just a couple of days since I installed Fedora 9 som I'm still fumbling around finding out how to do things, but I'm going to read my self up on how to use Wine and stuff as you suggest, but as I can see it's going to take some time as it is a lot of things I don't understand yet.
If I may be so bold as to give you some advice Look into the package manager of your distro. And look into your configuration tools. You don't need to change a whole lot of things, but generally that gives you some ideas of what is possible. Linux has features not found in WinXP that makes life just a little easier. Virtual Desktops, Focus follows Mouse, online repository, that sort of thing.

And knowing a little about your package manager really solves tons of installation problems. I'm sure in Fedora you can just pull Wine from the repo, rather than installing it manually.

Migrating to a new system always has a learning curve. I'd start at those points and work from there. And if you have questions, don't hesitate to ask them
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Yeah that's true. But so is the opposite. Neither system is perfect. This is frustrating at times. The underlying design philosophies are very different.

that was my point actually. the design philosophies are different so stuff works differently and is a challenge to new users who try to get it working in the fashion they are used to. my warning was that since its not windows you have to open your mind to new ways of doing things. More so about learning not to blame linux for something that doesn't work the same.
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