Lowe

Weee. I'm liking xfce a lot just now. Dunno it just has a good feel about it.

Oh and check that rufus bittorrent client out it's pretty good.

Has anyone managed to get some microsoft games working? Like age of empires and rise of nations.

I'm getting my new harddrive today, can't wait to test out all these themes.

Harddrive = dead

I've no choice but to use my old pc which sadly only has windows on it, not to mention it's not really mines anymore. I really hate sata drives, i'll never trust them again, i think it lasted 2 months pretty sure it has a guarantee, i sure hope so anyway.

Scary.

I have a 6600, i wouldn't call it low-end card. It works well for me, i've no reason to upgrade it.

It's not that i can't make it work, it's just that the games i play run better in cedega than they do in wine.

Cedega is next to useless... a well configured Wine is equally good.

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You have a habit of talking utter garbage. Normal wine is what's useless, you've obviously never used either for a long period of time, if you did you would know cedega is superior at running games, compared to normal wine. If people want cedega so badly, just grab a torrent. Not a big deal really.

Azureus is slower than other BT clients. That's not what stopped me from using it though, the thing that stopped me from using it was the attitude of the developers, i reported a bug in great detail about how azureus semi-kills any running browser, webpages don't load they just show the load sign for a mili-second and then stop. The azureus dev team told me it was a windows problem, i was like well that's funny i'm using linux. You know what happened next? They deleted my bug report, so screw them.

I think I am going to end up getting windows. 

If you really love gaming, then go for it. I know if i did, i would using windows right now. I'm more of a console gamer, so no need for me to use it.

Well, that is not a 'dark' theme, for one.....but yes, I could choose a color and tone it down. But then you have to have something to match and go with it. All you have to do is change the color in lines 27, and optionally lines 98 and 99 for the menuitem. This way it's more neutral, which is another reason so much of my stuff is graybased. It allows the user to use it with other things and still look ok. Maybe I'll choose some good popular stuff and release several colors?

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It's fine, i'm just being fussy. You've done a good job on the theme, it's a lot more useable than most black themes.

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because color means bright, and bright text on blk is bad for the eyes ;)

Not really. http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/24597-1.png

But hey it still looks nice at is. Just a little hard to read stuff.

I know what you ment, it's just that I think that's the best use for windows.

Install it, strip it down of all the bloat, seal the box, play games on it.

A x86 console 

 

And all the work do on Linux (or Mac)

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Ah, ok i got confused by your post. Sorry.

Too bad, i only have one half decent computer and it runs only linux. :P

Unlike the python based Bittorrent clients, Azureus uses a single TCP communication port, so you have to forward just that single one. UDP traffic on a single port should also be enabled if you plan using the embedded tracker.

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Yes, and that causes a lot of problems. One being speed and some others i'm too lazy to explain.

I recommend you use bittornado, once the new one comes out it's going to blow the pants off every bittorrent client. Shouldn't be too long now.

huh? I meant > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console

The question you need to ask yourself is. Is it really worth it to run windows just to play games? :P

I don't think it is, but hey i like my consoles.

I haven't come accross a Windows game made in the last few years that doesn't work.

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Yet ragnarok online has been out for like 6 years and still doesn't work in cedega. heh and it's still one of the most popular games.

Currently none yet, as none are really that appealing to me. Of course if something comes out that looks intresting, i'll buy it. For the time being, i'm only really playing battle for wesnoth.

psst you made a typo in the topic.

My friend is sending me FFVIII today, and i have cedega so i'll try it out and tell you if it works. That way you don't waste money. :)

Oh my god bvc. :o

That is really awesome. Hopefully it will be finished soon.

EDIT: How about a different color for the text? It's kind of hard to read in certain applications. Maybe a nice blue? I dunno.

Hey Lowe. I was wondering: what series/game does your cute avatar come from?

 

(sorry for the OT...)

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Oh, err well it comes from a hentai game. http://9planets.jp/meteor/

:o

In my opinion 2.8 is better anyway. The lack of menu editing kills 2.10 for me.

Well even the companys that do make games for linux, the installers are bull, you often have to jump through hoops to get them installed and most people just can't be bothered (neverwinter nights is a good example)

There should be cd installers, is there a reason why we can't pop in the cd and let it install? Is this a linux problem or the game companys?

Cedega is a problem, people are scared to pay for something that might not work with the game they want to play. They should definetly have some sort of trial, so people can test if there game works then they would see it was worth buying. Linux has great chance on the gaming scene, with nvidia and ati working hard on their linux support. I think linux gaming will improve, but at a very slow rate, i'm talking years here.

It's not just linux gaming that suffers from lack of adverisment, but linux itself. I've never ever, seen a linux advertisment on tv or on a billboard, heck i didn't even know what linux was a year ago.

Ram is a lot more useful than the cpu, in my opinion. When i went from 256 > 1GB what a huge difference that made, but it still feels lacking i could use another GB of ram. ;)

Segate, maxtor and WD you can't go wrong. I prefer my WD harddrive, despite it being noisy as hell.

The seagate could last for years or it could die in months, the same goes for every other HD make.

I have a seagate SATA drive here, it works but not very well. It reads the wrong size, it's a 200GB sata drive and it gets read as a 140GB HD, so i'm losing quite a bit of space, almost considered going back to windows at one point because of this, but i never. Asus are good boards, but i've had some trouble with my nforce4 chipset, linux just doesn't like it.