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Linux games that are equal to (or better) than MS$ games

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wpshooter

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I have a friend who I am trying to convince to switch from MS$ operating system to a Linux distribution operating system. Yes, I know that she could possibly run both.

She has this subscription of computer games which she has purchased thru Verizon (her ISP) which she is just adamant about being able to play on her computer which she currently has on her borked up MS$ operating system computer.

Is it possible that there are Linux version of exact (or extremely close to) those games that she can get for free and use on Linux or are there FREE internet/browser based versions of those same games that she is currently purchasing from Verizon which she could access and just play via Firefox under a Linux operating system ?

Thanks.
 
That's bad news. If there's particular games she wants, it's likely best she stays with Windows. It can be a non-trivial task getting Windows games to run, even when it can be done. There's fun native/semi-native games for GNU/Linux, but it requires concessions, and flexibility to have a good experience.
 
If they are flash games they'll likely work.... You could start off doing a wubii install of ubuntu to test them out. Then if they don't work you just boot into windows and uninstall it from Apps.

It's possible to get many games working through wine but that's generally not a trivial task for most non-technical users and if you force it on them they'll get a bad taste for Linux.

As a longer term goal if that doesn't work out you could get her playing Steam games... there's a decent chance most all those games will end up working in Linux in the future and many of the games work now.
 
wpshooter said:
I have a friend who I am trying to convince to switch from MS$ operating system to a Linux distribution operating system. Yes, I know that she could possibly run both.

She has this subscription of computer games which she has purchased thru Verizon (her ISP) which she is just adamant about being able to play on her computer which she currently has on her borked up MS$ operating system computer.

Is it possible that there are Linux version of exact (or extremely close to) those games that she can get for free and use on Linux or are there FREE internet/browser based versions of those same games that she is currently purchasing from Verizon which she could access and just play via Firefox under a Linux operating system ?

Thanks.
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If you're going to act like a tool at least do it right, it's M$ not MS$.
 
The game of "Why the frack won't my thinger compile" is astronomically superior on linux because the OS is so much better at giving clues to the user about it.
 
MrColin said:
The game of "Why the frack won't my thinger compile" is astronomically superior on linux because the OS is so much better at giving clues to the user about it.
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I like playing Debian update. It's a gambling game. Every night around 12:30am I check for updates. Will I get a shitty libjs-jquery, or a sweet new LibreOffice? Very exciting :^D
 
i did mine tired yesterday and didn't notice my newly multiarched sid only got amd64 updates and i had like 15 fail to install since the version didn't match the i386 version numbers.
 
I totally got ripped off tonight. No updates at all. Maybe in the morning...

I'm on testing, and I think it's pretty much frozen, so I'm not getting much in the way of fun stuff. I do have the unofficial multimedia repository, so I can still get some surprises.
 
lxskllr said:
I like playing Debian update. It's a gambling game. Every night around 12:30am I check for updates. Will I get a shitty libjs-jquery, or a sweet new LibreOffice? Very exciting :^D
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You'll probably really enjoy fedora17 then. It just came out in May and the updates are fixing real serious bugs. Just in the last couple weeks I've been running it, it has improved a lot.

Yum is really growing on me too. It does this incremental/differential thing and is way more efficient than aptitude.
 
MrColin said:
You'll probably really enjoy fedora17 then. It just came out in May and the updates are fixing real serious bugs. Just in the last couple weeks I've been running it, it has improved a lot.

Yum is really growing on me too. It does this incremental/differential thing and is way more efficient than aptitude.
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I'm downloading the Xfce edition now. I haven't tried fedora in years. so I'll check it out. Usually I stick with the "official" desktop when trying a distro, but I've really been starting to hate Gnome. Aside from the shell which I'm not fond of, they're stripping features from their applications. They're going balls out for irrelevancy. They went from being the number one desktop to an also ran along with Xfce, Lxde, and the other minor players.
 
Im no expert to linux nor will I ever use it again (it just doesnt work at all) but isnt WINE designed for such a use?
 
Smoblikat said:
Im no expert to linux nor will I ever use it again (it just doesnt work at all) but isnt WINE designed for such a use?
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I've been using Linux as my primary desktop at home and work for over a decade and it actually works quite well, despite whatever issues you had.

And yes, WINE's purpose is to allow Windows apps to run Linux with no modifications. However, the Windows API is a huge moving target and replicating it feature for feature, bug for bug is a huge undertaking. So how well an app works varies greatly based upon the app and WINE versions. That's why they maintain their AppDB with ratings and common workarounds.
 
Nothinman said:
And yes, WINE's purpose is to allow Windows apps to run Linux with no modifications. However, the Windows API is a huge moving target and replicating it feature for feature, bug for bug is a huge undertaking. So how well an app works varies greatly based upon the app and WINE versions. That's why they maintain their AppDB with ratings and common workarounds.
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I added emphasis on this cause it actually matters a lot for WINE. A lot of windows programs work around windows bugs in order to work correctly. So not only does WINE have to implement the API they also have to implement the bugs in Microsoft's implementation of the API so that the programs built on it work right.
 
serp said:
I added emphasis on this cause it actually matters a lot for WINE. A lot of windows programs work around windows bugs in order to work correctly. So not only does WINE have to implement the API they also have to implement the bugs in Microsoft's implementation of the API so that the programs built on it work right.
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And they vary from version to version so WINE has to get them right for every version of Windows that they implement. And they're attempting to cover every version of Windows since 2.0 so their task is many orders of magnitude great than what MS did for any one version.
 
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