Just curious...

I'm thinking of installing Fedora, but I'm concerned as to what it can and can't run... like, will I be able to get Crysis working? lol

Cheers.

 

You can't be able to execute any MS software on Fedora Linux unless using Wine...but it's a killer performance for playing Cedega is more appropriate.
But forget to run crysis...you can play Far Cry and Half Life 2 with an emulator(cedega but they are slower than on xp),Quake 4 , Doom 3 or UT2004 are native coded for Linux but they are hard to install if you are a newbie

 

ok, I can run crysis just fine with my rig right now (hopefully better once they release this patch I keep hearing about... lol)

What's Fedora good for then? I've always wanted to get into linux, but I always hear what it CAN'T do, and I never hear what it CAN do.

 

To start using linux i suggest to install Ubuntu...mainly it's more stable and more secure than windows and it's good to make practice with Samba server that is a standard in web architecture.Gradually linux is changing from programmers target to desktop user target so with ubuntu you will have a nicer gui with some os effects even with a poor video card.If you have an Nvidia your life will be easier cause the company supports linux better than ati.
Summarize

PRO
-All sw that you need are preinstalled from graphics to audio edit
-Essential if you are planning/studying to work on web
-Cool 3d gui with nice effects (only last version of ubuntu)
-Virus and Spyware are 1%
-Development tools and compilers for (almost) every high-language are preinstalled
-It's free

CONS
-Hard (but not impossible) to use for gaming
-Less usability (you can't install application with a click series,you must compile by yourself the source)
-Most of ms sw don't work(f.e. Adobe CS3)
-Slow on start up

 

ive got a problem wit my lap-top,ive put a game on it nd cant remove it frm control pannel,can anyone help me

 

In Linux?
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ATI-definitely getting better but use a program called Envy to download and configure the ATI 7.1X (not sure if 12 is out yet for linux) for Ubuntu, very user friendly.
- definitely lots of programs
- not true for effects, they're just enabled by default in the latest but you can still download them.
- definite pro that there's little viruses/spyware since it's a minority
- compilers for C and C++ were not fully ready, had to install parts.
- very good for free

- Use wine/cedega/crossover linux (free/monthly pay/free trial->one time pay)
- add/remove programs using add/remove programs or the Synaptic Package Manager (SPM)
- google wine XX, cedega XX, crossover linux XX (XX is the program)
- Ubuntu is one of the fastest booting distros there is. If you want a speed demon there's a Brazilian? distro using the Texas Flood Boot System that is supposed to be from power on to desktop in 7 seconds http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=178218.

 

was that 4 me,if so dont no wot u mean

 

Was it in Linux or Windows that you installed the game?

If it was in Windows go to C:\Program Files and delete the folder that your game is in (be careful about what you delete if you have more than one thing installed to that folder). Then when you go to add/remove and try to remove it, it will say it's not there and will ask you whether you want to remove it from the list.

If it was in Linux you need to cd into your wine directory, I'm going from memory so bear with me.
It should be something like cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files and then delete the folder of your game. If this doesn't work or you're unsure where to go type ls -a as this will show you hidden directories/files.

 

We are talking about a newbie

1)there isn't a distro like ubunt with compiz preinstalled
2)not all distros has the SPM and not all the sw support SPM

Unless you tweak up the system and you are an expert user you could be right,but my words are related to someone who doesn't have tried linux before
And don't think that with cedega you can play at gears of wars or the witcher...simply it supports some popular titles not ALL the titles

Crysis isn't optimized in Windows that it's the main target,how could an emulator on linux run it ?

 

1. You are likely right there but my point was that you can always easily install them yourself.
2. everything in the SPM will work for your distribution, it's a repository of all the software that the developers of the distro have said will work with that distro.

I realize that wine/cedega/crossover won't run everything, I was just saying that before you say it won't work, check it out on google since it's very likely that it has a rating about how well it works and if it doesn't, someone else very likely has tried to get it to work and will say how they did it.

EMULATOR!?!?!?! Blasphemy! Do you not understand what WINE stands for? Wine Is Not an Emulator www.winehq.com http://www.winehq.org/site/myths
Emulators are essentially mini OSes used to run the entire program in software (slow but works).
Wine is a compatibility layer that intercepts the programs calls to the OS for a particular thing and sends back the appropriate response (fast but may crash if wine hasn't been coded for that)

Assuming Wine would be coded to run Crysis the performance would be almost identical since all it's doing is sending the info back to the game (same as Windows, just without the middle man). See 2nd link above.