I love my box.
My box rocks.
Yet, I can’t help but think about what kind of machine it would be if I stripped it down and installed Gentoo. Would it be fast? You bet your ass it would! It would definitely take advantage of the 64 bit processor. It would definitely get me back involved in “computers” and not just, “using an operating system”. Hell, I’m sure I have enough cycles to crank out VM Ware. I could install XP again and maybe even configure it correctly this time! Get Flash and Photoshop and all that going…
So what’s my problem? Why would I even hesitate? I like Windows well enough but I’m not a Windows devotee or anything. I still probably know more about Linux and the Mac than I do about XP… So what gives???
Half-Life 2.
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault.
Um…
Could that be it? It’s only 2 games! There’s an excellent chance that the Linux versions of Doom 3 and Unreal (Quake 4 as well) will be just as good as their Windows cousins! So, I should say SCREW IT and DO IT!!!
But I won’t. For now, that is. I’m just scratching for an itch. I don’t know what it is but there’s apparantly some force that keeps me complacently numb. Trapped in this amusement park that’s everything I’ve ever wanted. A powerful, quick and insane workstation that allows me to play ANY game I want, and build ANY application I could ever dream of!!!
…but it’s not Linux.
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Ah leave XP on it. Scrap together another machine for your itches. Its easier regardless to have separate machines. What if you wanted to compile your kernal and play Doom3 at the same time? Not going to be very good now will it? Just me thinking out loud. I use my nix box everyday but I cannot get around not using windows for somethings… Sometimes windows does work for good purposes.
Sounds like Dual Boot to me. I know you find it distateful, but the way I see it, you’re either playing games or coding. I mean it’s not like you don’t have the hard drive space with that three billion jahiggabytes of drive space (Sweet Mary, Vott…you go over the top sometimes). I’d either put the games on a FAT32 partition or compile in NTFS support so you can access the binaries from your Gentoo OS…which will let you mess with wine and the game binaries and all that good stuff while still maintaining a great gaming platform. As wine support gets better you can move towards all-Linux again.
I’m for the Dual boot option with some shared partitions. That’s what I did with my laptop and it rocks. Best of both worlds, man. And that’s my two cents. And thanks for posting. Jeez…I get lonely on here.
P.S. – Not play the latest (Windows-only) games on that insane box with that twisted vid card in there??? WHAT ARE YOU THINKING???
Well, that’s for chipping in your ideas, guys. What I may end up doing eventually (post-move) is adding a small experimental partition and dual-booting. That way I can install a 64-bit Gentoo distro, check to see if I can handle the management of communicating ext3 and NTFS, and so on. I can also (as stated) just boot into Windows when I’m ready to play a game. I’ll keep the small box I got from Grendel V as a lightweight server.
In fact, in the meantime, maybe I’ll clean and re-install Gentoo on THAT box! That should keep me going for a while.
Thanks guys!
Dude, Gentoo should rock on that thing…you can overclock it to something like 903Mhz if I remember right.
Or you can be a real man and install BeOs.