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Quoted from GangsterAlgot

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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).

Care to explain how gentoo is better than ubuntu? Do you use it as your main OS for TF2?

(I know nothing about linux :P)

If the game is native to linux, you won’t have any performance issues what so ever, linux isn’t worse that windows in that matter (except for the occasional shoddy drivers). Thing is that few games have linux clients so you need to run the windows game through wine making the performance worse.

I’d love to move over to linux completely but there’s too much hassle for me, even if it works in the end.

Quoted from klu

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Care to explain how gentoo is better than ubuntu? Do you use it as your main OS for TF2?

(I know nothing about linux :P)

Gentoo is not in any way better, it’s different and has its pro’s and con’s. While Ubuntu focuses on being user friendly Gentoo focuses on giving the user choices and performance advantages, this making it less user friendly.
There are a buttload of different linux distributions each special in it’s own way. I suggest checking this page if you’re interested: http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

A while ago I got TF2 running on my gentoo laptop but it was unplayable due to performance issues because my laptop barely runs tf2 on windows.

I am currently using windows7 for my TF2 comp.

Looks like Crossover might be worth the investment, I’ll use the trial version and see how it goes I suppose.

you dont need xover or cedega, save your money tweak it with wine and its fine. you could also download wine-doors to make it easier still, I personaly found that it ran fine. but the graphix were sub standard, but did’t waste to much head time. and last trail was about 6 months maybe 1 year ago, so im sure its much better now. may try again soon, and let you know my results. Also Nvidia GPU support is 10x better in linux especialy if you are still running tf2 on your laptop mate.

Oh and chris the linux kernal is far better than windows, not to mentions far more custom. funny how windows needs a page file and always uses it, linux hardly touches the pagefile unless it really has to. possible coz the kernal clears the memory where as windows is lazy. not to mention u can run linux @ a 1000hz kernal if u wanted.

I suggest u check ATI first befor taking the plunge, my 1-2 year old laptops HD2400XT still aint supported properly.

I tried css on ubuntu a few years back and it worked just fine. It was on some amd socket 754 cpu and a ati 9-series card. Installing the ati drivers was the hardest part for me, but I think it is easier nowadays. However, after trying it on ubuntu, I wouldn’t do it again, too much hassle.

Quoted from octochris

(And no, before somebody says it, the Linux kernel is not faster than Windows’ one.)

Your right, it’s not faster per see but the linux kernel is more configurable which means you can skip stuff you don’t need (such as bluetooth, pagefiles, strange drivers for stuff you don’t have). This does make your system faster and more responsive since your kernel isn’t bloated.