Installing Linux.

These days, that isn't all too hard. You slacking bro.

Anyway, I'm glad you got it set up, thetrophysystem. From here on out, things should be fairly easy.

I was actually going to ask. I was interested in Linux PA, compare and test the two builds and bugtest and such. Beyond that, is KSP Linux-supported? Is there any other attractions I should hop onto adding?

I believe Kerbal Space Program has a Linux build, but I don't play it myself, so I don't know how well it runs. There are a number of other decent games out there that run on Linux as well. Valve's Linux games are pretty good.

Other software add-ons really depend on what you want to do. If you want to do something, chances are there's a package out there that does it. Like, if you want a music player, they range from Winamp and iTunes clones, to players that run entirely in the command line. If you have any specifics in mind, I might be able to suggest something, but otherwise, feel free to play around.

Warsow is on linux. It has virtually no players, especially for 'muricans. But still.

Fixed because marketing.

uhm ye the server browser is totally broke for like the first month after installing because of some freak bug. While it says only one server is populated, they're actually all filled to brim except for that one server. That's not even mentioning all the top secret servers all the cool kids play on!

I'm surprised no one mentioned Ubuntu 12.04LTS.

If possible always use a second hard drive. If you are more comfortable with windows then use easybcd to use the windows bootloader at the end of everything. I have had it before where a setup a dual boot system with grub as the bootloader and I ended up screwing up the linux side of things leaving my system unbootable until I restored the MBR of windows.

Right now I am prepping a second hdd for my laptop to try steam OS. I am just going to yank out the windows drives (yes drives) and slip in the blank drive I am going to use.

I just partitioned my one hard drive.

Also, i am using 12.04.

Does anyone actually uses the linux nicknames? Like roaring ringtail?

Some people do, yes.

Why not 13.04? Or am I behind on the times and nobody wants to use the latest Ubuntu releases anymore?

Also, if you want to get fancy with hard drives, this is the best method:
You need 2 hard drives in your computer.
Install Windows on the first hard drive, then set your BIOS to point to the other hard drive as the first hard drive. Now Windows is actually installed on the second hard drive.
Install Linux on the "new" first hard drive, along with the bootloader. (Grub/Lilo)
The advantage is such: Now when you boot, it uses the superior Linux bootloader, but if there's ever an emergency, you can set the Windows hard drive to be the first hard drive and have it boot straight to Windows without any issue.

The reason this works is that each hard drive has a Master Boot Record, which is essentially a space on the hard drive reserved for the bootloader. Of course, your computer only needs one MBR to boot up, so it just uses the MBR of the first hard drive on your computer. But that doesn't mean that you can't install a bootloader on the others. Thus you have this method, which I've found to work out pretty nicely. (Although I haven't yet had to do an emergency switch, because Linux doesn't let me down.)

12.04 LTS is long term support until 2017. So there is going to probably be less issues with drivers and other software related problems then the regular version, which is updated every 9 months. So basically it's stability vs new features.

I was under the impression that that was more for server administrators than desktop users, but I guess that's changed since I last used Ubuntu. Happily, every release of Slackware is an LTS release, every release is an easy upgrade, and problems are so seldom that I don't really need to think about that kind of thing.

I came home. Left with windows loaded. Came back with linux loaded (power must have flashed and restart defaults to linux).

Been too lazy to mess with it since, but now I am getting virtualbox built in my linux OS, and then I am loading internet explorer and exporting favorites and settings and exporting them to firefox on linux first. Then next time I get on Windows I will install and import settings for firefox on Windows. Then is the mundane process of reinstalling tools and such, but for fun atm I installed a MLP theme for firefox on linux

So, um, I am pretty naive but when I see "MLP theme", I immediately think My Little Pony. So if you made a My Little Pony themed desktop, I tip my chapeau to you good Sir!

Installed, but yes that is what I meant. Lol, even updating flash for browser is very "manual" with linux.

My personal choice: Linux Mint 14 64bit Mate (but I'll consider KDE with the 17 release). Actually the whole family runs under Linux Mint 14 as that way they have nothing to break .

Planetary Annihilation: runs out of the box but be sure to check the Mac and Linux Getting Started subforum. I can't really compare the performance as I have only Linux on my laptop and for the moment only Window$ on my desktop. I can just say: it runs .

Kerbal Space Program: runs with "LC_ALL=C ./KSP.x86" to fix loading issue but I'm not sure if this is still a problem. It seems actually less buggy than the Windows version with 0.23:
- Under Windows I get random ship disappearance when trying to pilot it)
- Under Linux before 0.23 there was an issue with mousewheel (fixed) and VAB/SPH symmetry crashes (seems to be fixed).

Steam: runs out of the box.

Diablo 3: for me it works better under Wine on my less powerful laptop than on my Window$ desktop with the same settings. How odd...

I'm no longer a Linux guru as I abandoned Gentoo after finishing the university in 2008 and that's more than enough time to forget all the stuff about kernel building and tweaking.

EDIT: typo

Mint doesn't use kernal tweaking? Thats why everyone uses it.

I am getting into the kernal stuff myself, and it really is different for every version. In 13.04, I have to tweak all the instructions I ever get online for that kind of stuff, virtualbox is still something I am struggling with after needing to build it.

The next thing I should do is look into getting a linux install of Kerbal and PA. Do Unreal3 games run on linux? Doubtful.

Unreal 3 engine "officially" doesn't support Linux I believe but check this site for any games that don't have a native Linux version: http://appdb.winehq.org/

Borderlands 2 runs quite fine under wine for me (with quite a few tweaks though).

Meh. Asked for the upcoming Renegade X (see signature).