The hardest question.

What distro is best for gaming

  • Gentoo

    Votes: 3 14.3%

  • Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu

    Votes: 6 28.6%

  • Fedora Core

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • FreeBSD

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • Slackware

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • Madrivia

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • openSUSE

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • Debian

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Linspire

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • something different

    Votes: 5 23.8%
  • Total voters
    21
  • Poll closed .
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Shaggy2Dope

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Wich distro is best for gaming? Kinda like asking what is the meaning of life. So what do you guys think?
 
ValeX said:
Generally Linux and gaming don't go in the same category. Even if you get cedega or wine up and running, you're still only going to have about 1/4 of the performance you should be able to get out of your hardware, but I guess if you want to go that route, good luck.

ValeX
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of course not
UT2k4 (and all other version)
Quake4 (and all other versions)
Doom3
Quake wars soon
...
 
I have gotten the same performance on FreeBSD, Ubuntu, and slackware. Ease of getting games installed and working with the least hassle...well that award has to go to Ubuntu.

Talking native games -- not games under cedega/wine here. Since there is no cedega for freebsd (i have not checked lately..but there wasn't some time ago), I cannot make a good comparison there.
 
Right, but that's only a handful of games (basically all iD games) whose devs had the generosity of providing a Linux compiled binary for. There are still many more games that have flaky or horrendous support through WINE or Cedega, but generally any popular game should have decent enough performance and few major glitches that you can still enjoy the experience.

New games though, you will probably wait just a little while at least for some support to show up for it.

My statement doesn't apply at this time if you run ATi though.

Also, any distro should work. Go with what you know.
 
Linux is linux is linuX,... as long as each version of Linux has the required packages installed to run ("name_of_game_here") then the difference in gaming would be negligable. :D

there are plenty of games for Linux you just have to know where to look...

www.linuxgames.com

www.happypenguin.org

www.tuxgames.com

just because a game has great advertisements and big name publishing behind it doesn't make it good, free games are cool too ;)

Oh yeah ... still gotta vote for slackware 'cause it's cool !!!

don't forget... Alien Arena & Neverwinter Nights !!! <--- both good games
 
This is not the hardest question at all.

If you want to game, go with windows.

Whatever you do, do not use cedega.
 
Well I don't know why you would game on linux but I guess it has come a long way. But I am very partial to FreeBSD
 
Should be all the same really...ss long as you can get your ATI/Nvidia drivers and Cedega/Wine working properly. Of course you'll have an easier time with OpenGL games. I am partial to Gentoo though...I love it.
 
This is like asking what is the best CPU to pick up chicks with.

Gaming sucks in Linux. It has been discussed time and time again...

I support Id and Epic for porting Linux games but if you decide to program with DirectX, you don't get my cash - very simple, no?
 
The best setup is whatever distro you choose + dual boot windows. Even better is just having one workstation and one gaming computer, and use a KVM or that newfangled program to switch between them.
 
It doesn't really matter... All *nix are bad for playing video games.

1) Drivers suck
2) Most games are designed for Windows
 
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