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XGrave

i might partition my harddrive to install linux but im wondering will i still be able to run most games or even ms word and stuff like that or would i have to find unix os files to play and what not?

Eriond

Some games, you'll be able to run, albeit most of them slower. Some games won't run at all. Which ones in particular are you looking to run? Usually relatively popular new-ish games will run. Really new games won't, but stuff that's about 2 years old and popular will probably run with a couple bugs.

As for MS word, all you need is OpenOffice. It's essentially the same thing, but free.

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XGrave

Dawn of War and when starcraft II and dawn of war II come out might also play cabal or maybe even flyff again

Eriond

Looks like it's a yes for Dawn of War, but a no for all the others. You can if you want to though have Linux and Windows on the same computer, and just boot Windows whenever you wanna play games that Linux doesn't run.

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XGrave

shouldn't if run if i can get a mac version of it?

Eriond

No. When you change the operating system, you change a huge amount of things, like how memory is stored, and just in general how system calls are made that screw up any executable that's run. The mac version is no different than the windows version in terms of Linux really. When I say it'll run, I'm checking if it'll run on Wine, which lets windows programs run on windows (though buggily, that's why some games don't work, they just crash).

To check to see if smoehting'll run, just check here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/

Just search your application name. If it's platinum, it means it runs perfectly or near-perfectly. Gold is runs well enough. Silver means it has some major bugs. Bronze means it's almost usable, and garbage, is well, you know, garbage

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XGrave

aren't they both unix or am i missing something >< .... lol well im partitioning it and i got 2 hard drives any way so ill partition the 500gb one and create 2 seperate spaces

Eriond

Well, I think they're both based on Unix, but they've changed too much over time to be inter-changeable on an executable level, I think. I'm not an expert on this, though.

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XGrave

yea both unix based..... grrr... well im going to have windows for games would mozilla firefox run on linux? or am i going crazy?

Eriond

Well, on Linux it's known as Iceweasel. But yeah. It's the same thing. It'll run perfectly fine. Pretty much everything you want aside from games will run.

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