Ubuntu

Originally Posted by philipMac

I would say though, if you want to game, running WINE is going to slow things down. Boot over, unplug off the web, play away.

Check out Franks Corner.

I know the theory, OS plus application just to run the game, compared to just OS to run the game. The system SHOULD run slower. It doesn't. Seriously.

GTA Vice City, Half Life 2, F.E.A.R, Hitman 2 etc etc all actually run faster, at the same level of graphics, on the same machine.

There are even patches you can apply to Wine to get DirectX 10 support, so the very latest games (ala F.E.A.R - very processor intensive) run no problems at all.

see what ive done is used my old 7GB HD from my xbox, stuck it in one of those removable HD caddys, if its in, it boots Ubuntu, if i pull it out it boot XP. Best of both words that way. All i need to do if find some newsgroup downloading software. (and workout how to install stuff thats not in the packet manager

Think of it like this... 8 years ago we had windows 98... which came out late (don't they all?)... more like windows 99... people found it easier to use the windows 95. But it was the same... at the end of the day you still find people using it.
Ubuntu and other Linux distros are at that stage in there evolution, somethings work, some don't, and you have to fiddle. Which you did with 98 cus you had no choice, as XP has made it easier people forget that. But Linux is better, so If you can give it a little time you can make it do what you want. Even better then XP...