Re: Debian or Mint for Games?
Dne, 08. 01. 2011 09:44:25 je teddieeb@tmo.blackberry.net napisal(a):
Hi:
Last night at the 2600 group I managed to score a deal on some basic
hardware, though not all that impressive, a major leap forward for my
desktop.
Anyways; I have been a Debian fan for quite awhile but I do believe
there are different distros for different things.
My roomate has been raving about LinuxMint 10 and since I may be
reinstalling my OS I was giving it consideration.
I am thinking of switching to a 64bit OS only because I may soon
upgrade over the 4GB RAM cap on 32bits.
I also use the system for basic all around system and run an sshd
server.
So question being is there really any advantages to Mint in the
gaming arena over the capabilities of Debian itself? Really logic
tells me GNU is GNU, and a personally configured system is always
better, but not knowing my way around the Linux gaming world esp.
Graphics support maybe Mint would offer less of an upstream battle...
Thoughts??
TeddyB
In my experience, your question boils down to the graphics
infrastructure of your rig. Sound and other paraphernalia (mice,
joysticks etc.) can be said to work out-of-the-box on virtually any
modern distro.
Therefore, your decisive step will be to determine which graphics card
you have and which driver(s) it can use. The Frames Per Second you'll
be able to achieve depend entirely on that. Some recent video drivers
will require a fairly recent kernel, which may be a problem for lenny,
but not that much of a problem in squeeze. Some will only have 2D
hardware acceleration. I've personally been able to install fast-paced
first-person-shooters both from the Debian repositories and from
downloaded installers, but was forced in both cases to use the
proprietary ATI video driver (fglrx) to make them work.
There is a very good gaming DVD made by Sven-Hendrik Haase you can
download from http://live.linux-gamers.net/?s=download and burn it.
It's an Arch-linux-based live distro and it can give you, in advance
and without needing to install anything, a rough overview of what you
can expect from linux in the gaming department and what potential
issues you may run into. I've personally tried it and can recommend it
whole-heartedly. Other links you may want to check out:
http://supergamer.org/
http://maketecheasier.com/linux-gaming-with-sabayon-gaming-edition/2010/02/18
and, for a collection of non-linux (emulated) games:
http://maketecheasier.com/free-mega-games-pack-for-linux/2010/07/14
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