The big killer for wine games with me is pulseaudio. Support for pulse under wine is not good and that causes problems. Which means no ubuntu or fedora.
Like you I have a windows gaming system as well with my dual-boot, but
the media machine i have is pure Linux
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Before you can really get a handle on that you need SOME idea of what types
> of games they want. If they are looking for good but simple games almost
> any distro that includes some would be fine. If they are looking to play
> things like Call of Duty, Xion, EQ2, LoTR, etc they just won't be happy.
>
> That said, the choices listed by other folks here include lots of the in
> between levels and some downright good stuff as well. But you really do
> need some clues from your friends as to what they are looking for.
>
> BTW, I play World of Warcraft. And though one can run it under WINE, it is
> not satisfactory for me so I have a Windows gaming machine whose primary
> purpose is gaming I am sorry to say.
>
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