It doesn't matter which is cheaper if Linux can only play a very small subset of the games. I certainly wouldn't spend $200+ on a video card and then limit myself in my game selection by refusing to spend an extra $100 on the OS.
Personally, I've never actually been able to get Linux to run properly on arbitrary hardware that I happened to own. I'm sure you could put together a machine with specific hardware that is known to work well with Linux, but if you just pick random parts off the shelf based on per
I've never actually been able to get Linux to run properly on arbitrary hardware that I happened to own.
I, on the other hand, have run into one thing that Linux didn't work with. I have a collection of accumulated 'stuff' and just last night Frankensteined a PC together. I don't even know the model number of most of the parts. It's an Nvidia 8600 (something) video card, and a Soundblaster Live, I know that much. Worked just fine, no issues. (Streams PC games from Steam pretty well to the TV upstairs, too.)
For reasons I will not go into, I needed to Install Skype for Windows, and use a Webcam that works fine on ALL of my Linux systems. But after 30 minutes of trying, I could not find drivers for this Logitec camera that is detected automatically on Linux. I had a similar experience with some older scanners.
I've got a ThinkCentre that I was loaned a while back. I installed Linux on it, off it went. Everything just worked.
I later needed to install Windows on it, so I did.
It took me about 4 days to find most of the drivers, and I'm still missing a few. I had to download the network driver, copy it over by USB, and then load it on the system by hand, only to find out it was the wrong driver masquerading as the correct one.
So off I went, downloaded another one that worked.
Here's what I heard: (Score:2)
Linux+Nvidia is cheaper than Windows+anything.
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It doesn't matter which is cheaper if Linux can only play a very small subset of the games. I certainly wouldn't spend $200+ on a video card and then limit myself in my game selection by refusing to spend an extra $100 on the OS.
Personally, I've never actually been able to get Linux to run properly on arbitrary hardware that I happened to own. I'm sure you could put together a machine with specific hardware that is known to work well with Linux, but if you just pick random parts off the shelf based on per
Let's swap anecdotes! (Score:2)
I, on the other hand, have run into one thing that Linux didn't work with. I have a collection of accumulated 'stuff' and just last night Frankensteined a PC together. I don't even know the model number of most of the parts. It's an Nvidia 8600 (something) video card, and a Soundblaster Live, I know that much. Worked just fine, no issues. (Streams PC games from Steam pretty well to the TV upstairs, too.)
Re:Let's swap anecdotes! (Score:2)
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I've got a ThinkCentre that I was loaned a while back. I installed Linux on it, off it went. Everything just worked.
I later needed to install Windows on it, so I did.
It took me about 4 days to find most of the drivers, and I'm still missing a few. I had to download the network driver, copy it over by USB, and then load it on the system by hand, only to find out it was the wrong driver masquerading as the correct one.
So off I went, downloaded another one that worked.
Then I rebooted the system, and found v
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