Installing ubuntu + beryl.. no experience - NS4Sale

treid · 04-11-2007, 10:24 PM

im installing ubuntu with beryl, as ive heard great things about this combonation, but ive never used a linux desktop EVER. Linux is a nerd os... the nerd os haha, so im inferring windows apps can be configured to work on it too? Also, can you play microsoft games on linux? And if so will they run well? Haha im all new to this, don't make fun

Tony

treid · 04-11-2007, 10:26 PM

ps: this is being dual booted with my vista ultimate installation

Terran · 04-11-2007, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by treid

im installing ubuntu with beryl, as ive heard great things about this combonation, but ive never used a linux desktop EVER. Linux is a nerd os... the nerd os haha, so im inferring windows apps can be configured to work on it too? Also, can you play microsoft games on linux? And if so will they run well? Haha im all new to this, don't make fun

Tony

HAVE FUN!!
Took me forever to get even a FEW Win Apps t orun, You cant run .EXE
U;d need ti install Wine, a great adventure, i got a demo of Crossover (A control panel type thing, that also installs wine and other sutff) cuz wine would not install for me, beside with crossover.
Beryl i gave up after i fried the GUI on Ubuntu trying to get it installed, Just went back to went to Win XP, Used Hoem B4 Ubuntu put Pro on after LoL, Like Pro More

Terran · 04-11-2007, 10:43 PM

Also, YOu goign for the 3D Cubed Desktop?

haveblue · 04-11-2007, 11:02 PM

Most Windows apps won't work with wine, and getting the few that will set up is such a chore that it's probably not even worth it anyway.

Beryl is great, but a pain to set up with an ATI card. AIGLX is officially unsupported by ATI cards, and so you'll need to use XGL instead, which isn't really a big deal, just make sure you follow a guide for XGL not AIGLX.

Terran · 04-11-2007, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by haveblue

Most Windows apps won't work with wine, and getting the few that will set up is such a chore that it's probably not even worth it anyway.

Beryl is great, but a pain to set up with an ATI card. AIGLX is officially unsupported by ATI cards, and so you'll need to use XGL instead, which isn't really a big deal, just make sure you follow a guide for XGL not AIGLX.

NVidia bastard. LoL, JK

treid · 04-11-2007, 11:20 PM

Haha, im actually a nVidia guy too, i prefer there cards, despite there bad driver support haha. At the time I got this card, I was pretty desprate, and greg gave me a wicked deal that i couldn't refuse. Im happy with it, but a higher nVidia 6 or 7 series card would be nice

Terran · 04-11-2007, 11:31 PM

im ATI (only Cards ive had) I also dont know the Equivalnt NVidia card to ATI tho to. Next Card is a ATI x1950

haveblue · 04-11-2007, 11:48 PM

I'm have no real preference, whatever card performs best is what I want. However, I must say, ATI's linux support is awful. I went through three different versions of drivers before one of them finally worked.

hfxmike · 04-18-2007, 01:31 PM

If you are in linux, you could always run windows in a virtual machine (vmware)

treid · 04-18-2007, 04:19 PM

i decided to do the same but opposite.. bad idea haha, i've decided that im not the linux guy and im sticking with windows. I like windows user friendlyness and it's compatibility with purrrrdy much everything lol

Mattjslaunwhite · 04-18-2007, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by treid

Haha, im actually a nVidia guy too, i prefer there cards, despite there bad driver support haha.

you got that wrong, ati is the worst driver support, nvidia is the best, never EVER had a problem with nvidia drivers and iv owned one from every series except the 8xxx series lol

Omega drivers kill all oem drivers tho for both platforms

treid · 04-18-2007, 06:06 PM

thats what i mean, they dont update there oem driver support enough

Iain · 04-18-2007, 08:35 PM

I had ubuntu running with beryl quite easily on an ati card. There is alot of great help out there for getting it set up, and once you do, you generally have a much better understanding of ubuntu. I think I had a clean install of ubuntu with beryl up and going in a night, and this is with only a couple weeks experiance in linux.

However wine is a bitch to set up and if the only reason that you want to get windows apps to work is for games, there are some other alternatives out there, however they may cost a few dollars.