Re: Debian or Mint for Games?
HI,
Debian “squeeze” would get my vote. I guess this is more trial and
error approach. I think the rule is: If Debian can do it stick to it !
I know you can do anything on Debian, but it only may take more
configuration time.
Lubo
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On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:02 PM, <teddieeb@tmo.blackberry.net> wrote:
> Andrei Popescu said:
>
> You said nothing about the games you intend to play.
>
> [Snip]
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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...
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> 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?
>
> [re-wrapped to 72 characters]
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> On Sb, 08 ian 11, 08:44:25, teddieeb@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
>>
>> 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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