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Well seeing as Windows 7 RC is up soon I’m going to be formatting and reinstalling my OS.

I’d love to use Ubuntu, but not sure how it’ll run. Does anyone here us it and how does it work with TF2? How is your FPS compared to Windows? Any other problems with mumble / steam etc. worth noting?

I tried it about a year ago, and it was a huge performance related fail.

Wine might have been improved since then, so I guess it’s worth a go, but I don’t advise getting your hopes up.

Quoted from EpicFrench

Just need to use a VM or an emulator of Windows like wine.

Wine I Not an Emulator :P

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I tried it about a year ago, and it was a huge performance related fail.

Ye, same here. Gaming is just too much hassle on linux tbh if its the main thing you do. If you have the patience to dual boot then sure, go for it, ubuntu is great. But gaming is a fail on linux.

I was thinking of installing debian a while back. Maybe I’ll do it this week and test tf2 out?

The major problem for me is that steam ingame doesn’t work.

really recommend investing in crossover games : ) worked gr8 when i was going through my macperiod

I’ve got steam + tf2 running through fedora 12 (gnome) – its not so bad to get steam running and the half life engines pretty ok [just hate the font : ( ] and tf2 is possible, however i found i didnt get so much fps in fedora as i do in vista. Its fine for the occassional game, however its not a replacement to running tf2 on windows.

Tried 9.04 – tf2 unplayable (mini-freeze every 10-15 sec). Tried every tuning tip i could find.

Quoted from seraph

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Well if you’re not into TF2 it can be grand.

QL and HoN both have native linux clients that run (almost) perfectly. Seeing as I don’t actually play that much tf2 anymore, ubuntu’s grand for gaming for me

Ye, and if you really want to streamline your comp for max performance linux is the shit, specially if you run more advanced distros such as gentoo (as me :P).