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MacNean Tyrrell wrote:
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<div>I don't know where else to ask this. Also, if someone could
point me to a "general" linux mailing list to ask questions, not a
specific distro or anything, I would appreciate it so i didn't bother
you guys with non MythTV stuff. My main experience with Linux has been
with mythTV. Been almost 6 years i believe (i just know it was before
I was married). Lately, it has been mainly KnoppMythTV. And
basically, i know how to compile and stuff, but i haven't really used
it beyond watching TV. I would like to go Linux on my main computer.
I know i'm not going to get my wife away from windows, if not for
Office alone. But I want to. My only concern is playing WoW. I have
read it works under Wine, but read conflicting reports on performance.
I only have 1gig Ram, but do have an Athlon 64 3400+ i think. I was
wondering the general concensus on ease of use distro and performance
wise distro. I'm just looking for guidance i guess. And i trust the
MythTV community more than any other source, just cause y'all have
helped me alot and get MythTV to have that WAF, and now she can't live
without it.
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Sincerely, <br>
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MacNean C. Tyrrell </div>
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Depending on what city you live in and how large it is you may want to
search for your local LUG. That's Linus Users Group, most of these
groups have a mailing list they help each other with wide variety of
problems, and in the bigger cities they have 'install parties' where
geeks get together with hardware and install linux on it. <br>
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Use OpenOffice.org to get away from Office, ever since 2.0 I have had
no problems cross saving files between MS and OOo. I'm sure there are
flames about it not having some feature MS offers, but for the
lightweight Word and Excel stuff I use it for everything works as
expected. You can even set it to always save in MS formats.<br>
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I ran WoW briefly in Cedega, performance was kind of "meh" for me. I've
heard reports that straight wine actually runs it better than Cedega,
but IMHO nothing will run it at as smoothly as Windows. Also every now
and then a patch from Blizzard will break something with wine, causing
you to spend the next day or two surfing some forums to get a fix for
it. You'd probably be happier dual booting for games. <br>
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Just my 2cents. But definitely seek out your local LUG, always a good
way to learn new stuff. <br>
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Mike<br>
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