You Lost Me

[joelandsonja]

I'm not sure what I hope to accomplish with this post, other than to perhaps send a message to the open source community so that this particular area will be developed further so that others won't slip through the cracks.

My wife and I are officially leaving Linux.

The decision was hard to make, but I was hoping 10.04 would solve my Emulator problems, but unfortunately I am still unable to play any of my old game systems. Therefore my wife and I made the decision to purchase Windows 7 so we can get our old games back.

We would certainly come back to Linux if there were some decent working emulators, but so far it has been a huge disappointment.

At any rate, thanks for the help you have given us while we were on these boards!

[impert]

Why leave? Why not dual- or multi-boot, or keep one computer for Windows and games, and the other for Linux?

[joelandsonja]

I thought about that, but it seems like too much of a hastle for me. Unfortunately I am a slave to convenience, but I was hoping Ubuntu would work out for us.

I installed Virtualbox and tried to configure Wine, but nothing seemed to work for me. I would gladly come back to Linux if Emulators were more thoroughly developed, but for now I don't see that happening for at least a few more years.

All I can say is that I hope more development goes towards Emulators.

Perhaps the K.E.E.P. project will be an improvement for the future.

Although, I'm not opposed to having Ubuntu on my Windows system so I can keep up with the new improvements. Would anyone know if this is possible? (Like a kind of Virtualbox for emulating Ubuntu on Windows?)

[oz]

There really isn't an OS that is the best for everyone so there's nothing wrong with returning to Windows if that's where you prefer to be. That said, most users that try Linux do return to it sooner or later. So perhaps when and if you should try it again, it will better suit your needs. In the interim, best of luck to you.

[techieMoe]

There really isn't an OS that is the best for everyone so there's nothing wrong with returning to Windows if that's where you prefer to be. That said, most users that try Linux do return to it sooner or later. So perhaps when and if you should try it again, it will better suit your needs. In the interim, best of luck to you.

I concur with ozar. Perhaps one day Linux will work for you, and when it does drop us a line. No hard feelings.

[impert]

I thought about that, but it seems like too much of a hastle for me.
All I can say is that I hope more development goes towards Emulators.

Perhaps the K.E.E.P. project will be an improvement for the future.

Although, I'm not opposed to having Ubuntu on my Windows system so I can keep up with the new improvements. Would anyone know if this is possible? (Like a kind of Virtualbox for emulating Ubuntu on Windows?)

I know nothing of emulators, and very little of Wine, but I do know that the "hassle" of multi-booting is greatly exaggerated, and there's no speed penalty. Perhaps one day you might try linux again on a multibooting box. In the meantime, all the best.

[Rubberman]

My main complaint about Microsoft is that they act as though they own your computer, not to mention the additional costs and risks involved with using their software. However, there are certain applications which only run on Windows and that I, who use Linux and FOSS almost exclusively, have to use, for which purpose I run Windows in a Linux virtual machine. Linux virtual machine managers are getting better (now w/ 3D graphics support), faster (give them one or more CPU cores and a bunch of RAM to play with), and more reliable (no BSOD's yet for me), and you get the best of both worlds.

[rcgreen]

More and more, games are moving to dedicated game machines.
Soon, you won't be able to play the best games on Windows either.
Because it is more security and multi-user oriented, UNIX has never
been the best platform for games. yeah, you need more than one computer.

[D-cat]

I'm not opposed to having Ubuntu on my Windows system... Would anyone know if this is possible? (Like a kind of Virtualbox for emulating Ubuntu on Windows?)

Downloads - VirtualBox