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Ubuntu vs. Win XP

Asked by Don

I have a question about using Ubuntu 7.10 vs. Windows XP. I have Ubuntu installed on my laptop and I do like it the only thing is it lacks the hardware to use some of the nice effects that Ubuntu has to offer. I don't play too many games on my PC due to the fact that I need to do a major upgrade, which I cannot afford right now. I used Wine a little, but never got a chance to use it on my system demanding apps. My question is do you think it would be a good idea to put Ubuntu 7.10 on my main system?

System specs are:
P4 2.8 ghz
2 gigs of corsair memory
320 gig hard drive
intel 845PERL mobo.
Xfx Geforce 7800 GS (AGP)

only I play now on there is maybe once in a while is DoD: S and I would like to try COD 4 and possibly Gears of War anything other then that may need a major upgrade. I'm just really curious if I'll have any problems getting nvidia drivers to install and work fine.

Thanks in advance,

Don

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Sidarth Dasari (sirsid) said : 		#1

Those specs should be more than enough. If you are still worried you can try out xubuntu instead. Thats meant for older computers but I believe 7.10 should work fine. I use a 7600 mobile in my laptop and was able to run beryl with all of its effects and no problems. I doubt you will have any problems with compiz fusion.

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Sidarth Dasari (sirsid) said : 		#2

Oh and about nvidia drivers. Just enable the restricted drivers. I am using kubuntu so im not entirely sure how you do it in ubuntu, but I think its something like this.

System >> administration >> Restricted Drivers Manager and enable it from there
Also make sure you are able to download from repositories.
Hope this helps and good luck :)

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Don (don-hughesjr) said : 		#3

Thanks I'll be thinking more about this weekend. I need to work on my Jeep first off so I can find some time I may go ahead and keep some files and install Ubuntu.

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swift240 (swift240-gmail) said : 		#4

If its any use to you,
I use an Athlon 2000+ XP 1.667 Ghz, with 512 DDR ram, GeForce 4 64Meg AGP 8x. 80Gig HD.
My system is fast, faster than XP to be honest.

I dumped XP to go Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10

And I don`t regret it.

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Don (don-hughesjr) said : 		#5

I will most likely finish up these torrent I'm downloading now make sure
they work and start transfering some files over to the lappy that I would
like to keep. Then install Ubuntu

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> If its any use to you,
> I use an Athlon 2000+ XP 1.667 Ghz, with 512 DDR ram, GeForce 4 64Meg AGP
> 8x. 80Gig HD.
> My system is fast, faster than XP to be honest.
>
> I dumped XP to go Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10
>
> And I don`t regret it.
>
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Don (don-hughesjr) said : 		#6

Did you guys need to compile the kernal at all? I have a buddy that installed it and said it is running a little slow and was trying to figure out why.