Op Sat, 8 Jan 2011 12:02:12 +0000 teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net schreef: > Andrei Popescu said: > > You said nothing about the games you intend to play. > > [Snip] > > ------ > > I apologize, I am mainly refering to windows based games, rpg's fps's > and console emulators. > > I do from time to time play linux based games, but when asking this > question I was referring to / thinking of non-native and graphically > intensive applications. > > Would anybody know off hand if Mint has a newer version of Wine? They > have both Debian as well as Ubuntu base available. By default I would > go for the Debian, but would the Ubuntu base have a newer wine... > > I have other distaste for Ubuntu's system so I detest having to clean > it up when working with systems based on their OS... > > Thank You Andrei; > > TeddyB > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 12:47:38 > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: Debian or Mint for Games? > > [re-wrapped to 72 characters] > > On Sb, 08 ian 11, 08:44:25, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: > > > > So question being is there really any advantages to Mint in the > > gaming arena over the capabilities of Debian itself? Really logic > > tells me GNU is GNU, and a personally configured system is always > > better, but not knowing my way around the Linux gaming world esp. > > Graphics support maybe Mint would offer less of an upstream > > battle... Thoughts?? > > You said nothing about the games you intend to play. For free games I > would choose the one which has the games I need already packaged > (preferably by the distro, not third party). > > OTOH, if you want to try Windows only games Debian's wine is a bit > old. Even wine-unstable in unstable is still only 1.1.32. To get > StarCraft II working I had to use wine1.3 (1.3.10?) from the Ubuntu > PPA for 10.10, which seems to work fine on squeeze. I took the risk > because this was a dedicated install which I was willing to trash, I > wouldn't have risked that on my main system. > > Regards, > Andrei
Newer Wine versions don't always "work better" with all Windows apps/games. Your choise of distro isn't that important. If you plan to use many windows games, you might want to look at Play On Linux (POL) to handle your Windows (wine) games on Linux. http://www.playonlinux.com/en/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110108150401.2bf13...@squeeze.telenet.be
