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.
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Stephen <
cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
> >
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