Linked by Steve Husted on Mon 13th Sep 2004 08:28 UTC
Linux gaming. Let's face it - it's terrible. Tux Racer? Please. Quake III, okay, I'll give you that. NeverWinter Nights? If you can get it to work. WINE? If you have enough hair left to pull out, WINE is a good choice.
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does your router/firewall protect you from trojans
No. But my Linux distro doesn't protect me from running "rm -rf /" as root either.
Again, probably a problem at your end. I experience none of this.
Kudos.
Maybe you need to upgrade to a modern Nvidia card? Because I have a bargain Nvidia FX 5200 and I don't experience any of the above either.
Maybe I should "upgrade" my AGP 128MB NVidia FX 5700 Ultra to a 4MB S3 PCI card. Because that's what I was using back in about 1998 with Win98 and it was far more responsive than my system is today.
X is not a joke.
Really? I read an article (on this very site I believe) just a few days ago that stated X is 20+ years old and is a hack of a hack of hack that was never intended to do anything like what people want now. And that if one were to design a "windowing engine" today, that X would basically be the prime example of how NOT to design it. The primary issue being that when X was designed way back when that computer hardware was so much slower then than it is now that the network overhead was completely unnoticed. Fast forward 20 years and (according to the article) all the network overhead is a huge bottleneck.
Just because you run Gentoo doesn't mean you're running an optimized distro. Using the wrong USE and CFLAGS can actually SLOW DOWN your system. And just because you spent "HOURS" doing it doesn't mean you've exhausted all of the options or have done it correctly.
Agreed.
Nothing like that here either. Problem at your end?
Must be.
Sorry to hear that. Nothing like that ever happens here either. Problem at your end?
Must be.
make it better yourself.
The biggest cop out in all of Linux.
Don't use Gentoo then. Use a distro. where you don't have to care about it.
My reason for switching to Gentoo in the first place was because I was read so many posts about how bloated Mandrake is. Or how much SuSE sucks. Blah, blah, blah... Gentoo was supposed to be the ultimate way to go. Just boot the install CD, set your CPU type, and 4 days later when it's done compiling, you have a completely optimized setup.
Linux is rock solid on the desktop as far as I am concerned.
I believe you. And that's why I put myself through the hell I put myself through.