Guess I'll soon become a Linuxer :)

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

Bwahahaha... oh god.

"Get Vista or Hasta la vista!"
The only reason i'm running XP is cause it came with my Acer lappy and my linux (Xandros) didnt recognise the hardware correctly. Suse didnt work much better either. (hate that green cameleon anyway)

i had tried Vista and i liked the feel of it but i doubt the usability will improve anytime soon. It doesnt recognise specific hardware without updating from the internet... now think about that for a sec. Sound didnt work, webcam didnt work, antivirus didnt work, etc, etc, ... even after the 'update'.

i believe this is all a huge linux conspiracy afterall!

[Dokujisan]

"hate" is a little strong, don't cha think?
It's a little chameleon

[Psychcf]

if you can run vista put beryl on that sucker and you're good to go

Also I'm only getting vista because A. I'm getting it free and B. I play ALOT of games. Yet nexuiz remains my favorite. Even over quake 4 and ET.

[Ed]

Also I'm only getting vista because A. I'm getting it free and B. I play ALOT of games.

What's gaming performance like under Vista? I'd guess it's going to be slower across the board in RAM intensive areas just as more RAM is used. CPU and graphics shouldn't be much different so long as the graphics drivers for Vista are any good. If you want good gaming performance the best thing to do is run as stripped down an OS as possible. That's why Windows 2000 Pro is still the best OS for gaming.

[Ivan]

I wish i could switch to linux, but all of the good art programs are on windows. If Photoshop, maya and Flash were to be ported to linux. Then I would switch in a heartbeat.

[Dokujisan]

Not sure about Maya, but Photoshop CS2 and Flash MX can be used with WINE on Linux.

[:)]

There is a native Linux version of Maya.

[Psychcf]

the only thing that's keeping me from mainly using linux is xfire. damn them.

[esteel]

What for do you need it?
If you 'just' need a server browser try XQF that a very fine server browser. It might be included in the knoppix livecd but i'm not sure.

[Vendor]

I wish i could switch to linux, but all of the good art programs are on windows. If Photoshop, maya and Flash were to be ported to linux. Then I would switch in a heartbeat.

That sounds like me five years ago! Now when I have to use Windows, I have the opposite problem - all the decent media programs are on linux! If Kaffeine, Amarok and dvd::rip were to be ported to Windows....

As for a Nexuiz server browser, I just use:

http://delight.vapor.com/serverlist.php