saulgoode wrote:
I suppose it makes some sense to use Crossover if you've invested a bit of time at becoming proficient with a particular piece of proprietary software available only for Windows, but barring such prior experience I see little point in pursuing a Windows solution on a GNU/Linux platform. In the long run (and do you expect to be using a computer five years from now), one is better served by investing the time to learn the software available for GNU/Linux -- preferably Free Software, but even commercial software targeted at the platform would be more prudent.
$0.02
I agree with your thinking. But I like to game too. I don't think they'll be making a Call of Duty version that will run on linux out of the box.
The only other things I have to consider is my wife and her games from big fish and gamehouse. *sigh* Which she had her own Win7 box with a 1.5Tb drive but continues to plug my machine up with trails and #$%^#$ toolbars!
I concur with you. Although I'd like to know if anybody has used this basically commercial version of WINE.
ofnuts wrote:
Amen to that. In fact the important part of the move to Linux is before you install it. Start first by getting your Windows system free of all the proprietary software you've grown used to: PS, MS-Office, Lightroom... and replace them by the Windows version of their "libre" counterparts... (I don't count mundane utilities here because these have all better and more suited Linux alternatives). After six months of de-addiction, switching to Linux is easy.
I don't consider myself cheap, thrifty yes. So just about everything I run on my windows platform is either open source or freeware. Which the exception of the Stardock applications (desktop eyecandy) which you wouldn't be able to go. I can live with that, there's enough eye candy in linux to keep me entertained!
It's like I said in the above .. Call of Duty gaming and a about 4-5 other PC big name PC games and the wife's stuff.
Other than that .. I've been using Open Office since it's infancy
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