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The_Unlit_Torch

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  1. Posted

    I think your overestimating how willing game developers are for adding Linux support. As much as valve wants Linux to be a gaming platform, it will be ages before it catches on, if ever. Even support for mac gaming is far from universal, and Apple's OS is far more popular then Linux. Scrolling through steam (and this surprised me as well) almost all games are windows exclusives.

    Most good games are on Windows, Mac, and Linux, but there are definitely some of them that are Windows-exclusive.

    As I said though I'll get Windows, pirated or not.

  4. Posted

    If that's all you're going to play, a GTX 980 is overkill. Most AAA games experience a moderate performance loss (10 FPS or so) while running on Wine and lose out on many features that you'd expect to have, since Wine has no plans to implement DirectX 10 or beyond in the nearby future, so most of the bells and whistles in modern games that will be using your GPU heavily will be missing. (See stuff like SSAO/HBAO, tesselation, etc.) Also, Linux GPU drivers are never as good as Window's.

     

    Just do what @Stickz suggested and pirate it. If you care so much about a company spying on you (which they probably aren't, aside from maybe running some metrics or some BS like that on which programs you use) then you should probably consider moving to the woods, as the NSA has spied on many, many foreign countries in the past couple of years, including Germany (Merkel's phone calls, I believe)and the UK. Also, you should be anonymous if they collect any data, especially if you pirate it and don't use a Windows account.

     

    Considering the games you play, a GTX 760 or 960 will probably be enough to drive you. All of those games that you mentioned shouldn't need anything beyond a GTX 560TI or its equivalents (closest thing I can think of is an HD 7850), which is ancient.

    My grandma is giving me the 980 for free, so I don't need to worry about the price.

    I'll get Windows one way or another, if I want to play Windows-exclusive games. There aren't even a lot of these anymore considering Steam released SteamOS to the general public which is pushing developers to releasing Linux versions.

    But I'll be using SteamOS as my main boot.

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    Linux just isn't there yet in terms of the graphical user interface. Both Mac and Linux lack of game support as well. I've used xp, vista, 7, 8, ubuntu, mint, gentoo, centos and a couple mac versions personally.

     

    Windows will do you perfectly fine honestly. You can run a disk cleanup after finishing updates. There's also the community winapp2.ini file for ccleaner to free up more gigabytes; Plus each steam game wastes about 5 to 15% of disk space which can be cleaned up as well. I freed 30gb/111gb of space using these.

     

    I would personally recommend windows 7 for six-nine months, then using your free ticket to upgrade to 10 when all the bugs are fixed. You will see notice a lot of improvements on 10 (which is an improved version of 8) in-terms of resource usage.

     

    Microsoft doesn't want to admit it, but they use tick-tock like method just Intel does. Much like the famous economic theory of using stages at a production plant, it works out significantly better.

    • 2000 -new version,
    • xp -polished,
    • vista -new version,
    • 7 -polished,
    • 8 -new version,
    • 10 -polished.

    All I'm gonna play is mostly TF2, Binding of Isaac Rebirth, and Hearthstone.

    TF2 and Isaac are available on Linux, and Hearthstone works through Wine.

    Also Windows costs a whole ton of money and they spy on you ;_;

  6. Posted

    That's called an SSHD. Software automatically selects frequently used files and puts them in SSD space. It's not nearly as good as having all SSD space, but it's definitely better than your conventional drive. Windows being a pig, could still hinder load times of games on the same drive tho.

    I'm not even sure I want Windows, it takes up so much fucking space it's not even funny.

    But thank you for explaning :-)

  9. Posted

    It's bigger waste to buy an SSD period, if you're not going to all your games on it. If you need more space than 500gb, a 1tb sshd would be a good addition.

     

    1TB ssds are a complete troll though. It just means you don't know how to free up space properly. You can free up a good 50gb/500gb of space using disk cleanup and the community winapp2.ini for ccleaner. And put stupid things like torrent downloads which degrade the life of your ssd on sshd. Plus games you're only going to launch once or twice are fine on sshd.

    My dad bought me some shifty 1TB HDD with an 8GB SSD section or something, I have no idea how it works.

  12. Posted

    WELL IF VALVE FIXES THE UPDATE FOR MACS SO I DONT CRASH EVERY FRRICKEN TIME I JOIN ANY MAP ID BE SO HAPPY

    -Whytes thought after tf2 update

    What are you even talking about? That's a problem with your computer.

    But yeah TF2 for mac is faulty and sucks.

  15. Posted

    @Ohstopyou

    Server:Hale

    Issue: All the presets made before ff2, such as preventing players from leaving spawn need to be fixed.

    Currently players can leave spawn with hyperheavy/520/ and taunts

    It's not allowed, though. Just call an admin if someone does it.

  22. Posted

    @The_Unlit_Torch

    Case: be quiet! Silent Base 800 (€ 110,83 )

    Wifi Adaper: TP-Link TL-WN881ND (For le wifi, about 16 €)

    SSD: 240GB Kingston SSDNow V300 2.5" (6.4cm) SATA 6Gb/s M... ( 84,79€)

    Cooler: EKL Alpenföhn Brocken 2 ( 34€)

    Drive:Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE (11,22€)

    RAM:16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro (135,85*)

    Power Adapter: 650 Watt Corsair CS Series ( 92,43*)

    OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home ( 99,61€)

    GPU: 4096MB MSI GeForce GTX 970 (like 354€ )

    Mainboard: Asus Z97-Pro Gamer Gaming (127 €)

    HDD: 1000GB Seagate Desktop HDD (48,46€)

    Intel Core i7 4790K 4x 4.00GHz (342,37)

    ______________________________________

    1452€ = 13 642.6894 Swedish kronor.

    This is my "setup" and I can just recommend it. It's not too expensive but it's great.

    I don't see a CPU in there ;)

    Well whatever I've already settled on the 4790K.

  23. Posted

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