Best 64bit linux?

[Dr Dmoney]

I am just about to upgrade my computer to 4GB of Ram. I know I may not really need it, but I want it. Anyway that is not what I am going to really talk about. I have never used linux, but I knew I would get it when I go to 4Gb of ram because I hate 64bit windows. I absolutely can't stand it. It is so slow. I am a gamer so I will Virtual BOX in to windows xp sp3 time to time. What would the fastest 64bit linux that really utilizes Virtal BOX software.

[bigtomrodney]

Well for a start I'd say just go with whatever distro you wish - I'd recommend a new user distro like Ubuntu, openSUSE or Fedora. They all have 64-bit versions and are quite friendly.

The dissapointment for you is that if you are a gamer you can forget about Virtualbox, VMWare, Qemu or any other flavour of virtualisation as direct 3D hardware access is not yet possible. Also remember there is a large performance hit when running virtualised. It's not as much as it used to be but nowhere near the latency you would need for gaming. I would happily recommend you try out a 64-bit Linux, but I'd keep your Windows install for gaming or have a look at Wine or Cedega for Windows gaming in Linux.

[Dr Dmoney]

I thought that there could be a problem using virtalbox to try to play games. So I just should dualboot.

[techieMoe]

I thought that there could be a problem using virtalbox to try to play games. So I just should dualboot.

I would recommend it. You might be able to get some of your games running in WINE or Cedega, but they might not be as stable as running them on the operating system for which they were designed.