What do you use your Linux box/machine for?

After becoming frustrated with how often Windows lagged on my netbook, I switched to Ubuntu, which I've used a few times previously on different systems. Although it still lags some (after all, it IS still a netbook), I've found that Ubuntu makes better use of the hardware. I also have used Puppy Linux on occasion to run on very old systems that either needed data moved off them or an OS crashed. It's very small and will run on pretty much anything.

 

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I know most new games focus more on graphics, but most of the games that I play are just as CPU intensive, often more so, than they are GPU intensive. I tend to play strategy or simulation type stuff, so there are AI's and agents in the background chewing through lots of CPU, while graphics often are modest, or at worst can be turned down with little loss. Having a third less CPU performance would be a lot more noticeable than having a third less GPU performance for me (though I'd like to have near-native performance of each, of course).

Prior to hearing about Xen's capabilities in this thread, most virtualization I'd seen was medicre at best for GPUs. Last time I seriously tried it in VirtualBox, it was slow and often buggy. Microsoft's solution doesn't allow GPU acceleration IIRC. My friends who ran Parallels on Macs reported perhaps two-thirds the GPU performance as they'd get with Windows running natively on their Apple, which was decent. VMWare might be better, but I've never used it outside of work, and thus never with any GPU-intensive stuff. Multi-core is common, but I'm not familiar with Xen, and wasn't sure what it supported.

I guess this is the benefit of Xen being more hypervisor and less standard virtualization product?

 

I was having a lot of problems with my dual boot Debian-W7 this month, I was thinking that it was the partitioning but turns out my HDD has unrecoverable physical damages on the first 150GB, so this is beyond hope and total failure is just a matter of time.

So I turned the computer into a Linux Box, but instead of installing I copied Knoppix 7 to the Computer RAM, of which I have 8GB + 8GB SWAP partition, activated update and install so I have a fully functional OS without needing to change my HDD yet as I don't the money. So using Linux for general purpose computing and loving it.

I am a bit critical about linux, but the range of possibilities of stuff that you can do is astonishing. So yes I am running my computer with the OS copied to the computer Ram

 

I use windows for gaming ONLY...that's it...otherwise i use Chrome OS (which is based on linux) or SOme flavor of Linux as it's superior for browsing,security,battery life and hardware efficiency