Where do you think I should go with my OS?

[Gunraidan]

I'm starting to get into PC Gaming. And the lack of DirectX10 kind of disturbs me at times for some reason.

I was thinking of getting Vista but I don't know if it is worth it or not. There is also the fact that Windows 7 is coming out next year and is going to have DirectX11 as well as I've heard that OS's like Linux are far better then Windows.

Do you guys know where I should go with my OS?

 

[Kerosinek]

Vista

 

[Gunraidan]

Will Vista eat up my specs though?

 

[Peter.Cort]

not if you have a good gaming machine. if you're worried about an OS bringing your system to its knee's then you don't have a good gaming machine

and linux's offer very little gaming support as they mostly run on opengl rather than directx.

 

[Gunraidan]

not if you have a good gaming machine. if you're worried about an OS bringing your system to its knee's then you don't have a good gaming machine

and linux's offer very little gaming support as they mostly run on opengl rather than directx.

I heard that there's a hack in which linux can run Windows for games.

Anyway I have a 8800GT card, Q660 Intel Quad Core, and 4 GB's of ram.

 

[carnageX]

It's not a hack, its just a normal application you install in Linux. Its called Wine.

 

[Gunraidan]

It's not a hack, its just a normal application you install in Linux. Its called Wine.

Oh can it run Vista and/or DirectX10?

 

[carnageX]

Wine just emulates Windows executables, and allows you to run Windows programs within Linux. If you want to game with best of capabilities...you're better off dual-booting Vista and a Linux distro.

 

[Gunraidan]

Wine just emulates Windows executables, and allows you to run Windows programs within Linux. If you want to game with best of capabilities...you're better off dual-booting Vista and a Linux distro.

Distro?

 

[Mathias]

Distro?

Yeah, you'd have to choose a Linux distro, like Ubuntu, Fedora or Redhat.
Ubuntu is probably the best/easiest distro for Linux-newbies.