Re: Debian or Mint for Games?
Andrei Popescu said:
You said nothing about the games you intend to play.
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I apologize, I am mainly refering to windows based games, rpg's fps's and console emulators.
I do from time to time play linux based games, but when asking this question I was referring to / thinking of non-native and graphically intensive applications.
Would anybody know off hand if Mint has a newer version of Wine? They have both Debian as well as Ubuntu base available. By default I would go for the Debian, but would the Ubuntu base have a newer wine...
I have other distaste for Ubuntu's system so I detest having to clean it up when working with systems based on their OS...
Thank You Andrei;
TeddyB
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 12:47:38
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Debian or Mint for Games?
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On Sb, 08 ian 11, 08:44:25, teddieeb@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
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> 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??
You said nothing about the games you intend to play. For free games I
would choose the one which has the games I need already packaged
(preferably by the distro, not third party).
OTOH, if you want to try Windows only games Debian's wine is a bit old.
Even wine-unstable in unstable is still only 1.1.32. To get StarCraft II
working I had to use wine1.3 (1.3.10?) from the Ubuntu PPA for 10.10,
which seems to work fine on squeeze. I took the risk because this was a
dedicated install which I was willing to trash, I wouldn't have risked
that on my main system.
Regards,
Andrei
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