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Nico Schümann wrote: |
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> Actually, I'd never do dirty things like these. But I really don't |
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> know how the performance would be. I think, the host sets the |
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> performance limits. And if the host is kina trash (M$), then there is |
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> no use of it. |
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> By the way, I recently read about Vanderpool and Windows. Windows |
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> works fine under SUSE. I think, if I ever got a new machine, my |
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> processor would have this nice bunch of Vanderpool features to run |
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> Windows. I actually don't use Windows. I *do* hate Windows. But how |
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> about telling people: "This is linux. It's that nice - it can run |
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> trash" (pointing at the Windows window) "without performance loss." I |
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> think, that's it. |
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LOL |
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Linux can run trash even now. The funniest thing is that *trashers* |
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don't know it and they think windows is irreplaceable for great many |
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programs but that's not true...at least not any more. |
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One of the most popular false beliefs is "linux can't run games". |
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Several months ago a friend of mine came to my place and showed me he |
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had just bought himself "Quake-4". He was paying tributes to Windows and |
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was explaining me how "he was going play, while I could only sit and |
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watch with my linux". |
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OK, I knew the guys from ID Software had promised a linux version soon |
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after the general release, but I was nicely surprised when I found that |
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not only ID Software had kept their promise, but also the guys from |
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gentoo had it in the portage! |
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Well, the installation was "windows-easy" and I showed my friend Quake-4 |
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under linux on a machine which I doubt is capable of even starting this |
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game under Windows. |
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More recently I was glad to rain on his parade again. This time the game |
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in question was Heroes-4. Well, Heroes-4 was tricky. I had to compile |
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cedega and it wasn't quite easy, but after all I was glad to send |
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several screen shots to my friend. |
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Heroes is deleted already but I'm afraid to touch cedega, because I |
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don't want to go through compiling from cvs again. It was quite painful. |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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