Jman_345

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Ok Guys Heres The Thing. I have Windows XP installed in one partition Of my HD. I have a Second one that used to hold my music,movies, ect... but thats gone into a USB HDD. So I want to make a Dual Boot with XP and Linux. I know how to dual boot them, i dont know what to pick though. Could you Halp Me PLz?

Keep In Mind
- Im Am Completely New to Linux
- I Would Like Something That is easy to learn with
- something that can play Steam Games( Tf2)

I've know a few distros off the top of my head, I hear Ubuntu is nice and WIME Something lets me play Windows Games. I also Heard Good things About ARCH Linux. Say what about this OCN Linux everyone is talking about? how is it?

Any Comments And Suggestions are Welcome

j0z3

Well, i recommend Ubuntu.
I just dont have much experience with other distros like OpenSuse.

TF2 on ubuntu? Suree!!! :
Ubuntu is easy, fast and cool .
Download Ubuntu
IMHO

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Melcar

Ubuntu, OpenSuse, and Fedora, are good distros to start off with. And yes, Wine technically allows you to play 3D Windows games on Linux, but you're better off using it for pure 2D and other non-accelerated programs, and use native applications for your 3D fix.

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korosu

Ubuntu is extremely noob-friendly. Steam games run beautifully.

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Retrospekt

Ubuntu, PcLinuxOS, openSuse.

Those are the noob distros, with Debian somewhat in there.

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j0z3

hhaha, noob friendly indeed.

Good thing about ubuntu is you get to choose your style, not only by configuring compiz and any other eyecandy.
You get to choose between Gnome and KDE.

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BlankThis

Ubuntu is greeeeeeeeeeeat!
(^^ Tony the Tiger)

It's truly amazing, I found it similar to a hybrid between OS X and XP...

~B~

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SkoalFineCut

The only thing with Ubuntu is that it's gotten to a point where it is almost completely plug and play. Hell, it even recognized my wireless card during the install and set it up (and it's one of those obnoxious windows only ones, how I hate ndiswrapper). So as a way of learning linux it's a good basic introduction, but offers little incentive to go too much further into it.

I would go with it until you get the basics down then start trying out some others like debian (which is ubuntu's base) and gentoo. And eventually work your way to slackware.

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Jman_345

What About X64 Ubuntu? is it better than X86 Ubuntu? im guessing it will be harder to find X64 software...let alone for ubuntu

The Hundred Gunner

Ubuntu/Mint, OpenSuse, PCLOS. Fedora is actually kinda harder... I don't really consider it an "easy" distro.

I don't find much performance increase in 64-bit, so I say it's just better to stick to 32-bit for compatibility. Unless you want to do SMP folding.

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