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Burnt_Offerings

The Crossroads Blues

Post by Burnt_Offerings »

Hello, everyone. My name is Roy and I got the Crossroads Blues. I am a long time windows user and have recently migrated to Linux. I started with Ubuntu 12.04 and now Mint 16, and have been quite happy, extremely happy as a matter of fact. I am at that official crossroads though, duel boot or all Linux. Now for the blue part, I am a huge PC gamer and I don't really want to leave behind the ease of access to all my games. I have installed WINE and am learning to configure it but I see that some of my titles will be difficult to configure but I will get it. I also expect another crossroads soon. Linux or BSD, i think this will be the easy one. Anyhow, I am happy to be here and I will probably ask more questions than I answer but I will be as helpful as I can.
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Re: The Crossroads Blues

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I am a huge PC gamer and I don't really want to leave behind the ease of access to all my games. I have installed WINE and am learning to configure it but I see that some of my titles will be difficult to configure
the commercial version of wine is:
https://www.codeweavers.com/products/windowsmac/

- they do have a larger amount of M$ games - that run under their version of wine.
look for your favorites in their search bar.
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The-Wizard

Re: The Crossroads Blues

Post by The-Wizard »

Welcome to the mint family forums

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Crewp

Re: The Crossroads Blues

Post by Crewp »

Welcome to Linux Mint, and the Mint forum. :D
vrkalak

Re: The Crossroads Blues

Post by vrkalak »

Welcome to LinuxMint :mrgreen:

Read everything you can -- Forums - Wiki - IRC

Linux: Tricks of the Trade > http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=38355
What works for Ubuntu, usually works for Mint > http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/
Linux Alternative to Windows > http://www.linuxalt.com/

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jahid

Re: The Crossroads Blues

Post by jahid »

Welcome to the Mint family........... :mrgreen:
jesica

Re: The Crossroads Blues

Post by jesica »

Good day and welcome to the family :mrgreen:
jahid

Re: The Crossroads Blues

Post by jahid »

Burnt_Offerings wrote:Now for the blue part, I am a huge PC gamer and I don't really want to leave behind the ease of access to all my games. I have installed WINE
If you are that of a huge PC gamer then probably a dual boot with windows and linux will be best choice because wine won't be able to run all of your PC games efficiently or at all.
Fuzzy Penquin

Re: The Crossroads Blues

Post by Fuzzy Penquin »

^ I second what Jahid says. Although the gaming for Linux is improving (GOG.com just announced Linux ports coming this fall, Steam has a bunch of Linux games & SteamOS, etc), there are still some games that I like to play which are simply not supported on Linux at all, through any method. I dual boot with Win7 for such cases. Gaming is the only time I use Windows, the rest of the time I boot into Linux. You might concider this option, as it will let you have your cake and eat it too.
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