OS?

[tacojoe]

First, I had WinXP Media Center. Now I got WinXP Pro 64-bit and it sucks ass. Half of the games don't work :/. Now, I'm going to switch back to WinXP Media Center.

[Toomanypuppies]

There's no SP4, third is latest.

woops, i guess that was an uneducated assumption. i have 2or 3 then  i think. could someone give me some info on Ubuntu games wise?

[UtterGarbage]

Vista home premium... good way to blow a few hundred bucks

[GT-7]

Vista home premium... good way to blow a few hundred bucks

Bad way to blow few hundred bucks.  XP is douple more effective when playing games than Vista. There have been made tests to proof it.

[Mythic]

Start -> Control Panel -> System, for those who doesn't know how to check it.

[Firefly]

There's no SP4, third is latest.

woops, i guess that was an uneducated assumption. i have 2or 3 then  i think. could someone give me some info on Ubuntu games wise?

Games and Ubuntu don't mix. Most mainstream games need Windows components such as DirectX to run. Ubuntu does have a program that emulates any Windows version, but I've only gotten some relatively simple Windows programs to work, such as Photoshop. Games don't usually work, at least new ones.

Ubuntu is much better and  smoother for everyday stuff though, which is why I recommend a dual boot. I have both XP and Ubuntu on my laptop and I use Ubuntu for everyday stuff such as browsing the interwebs and when I feel like gaming, I boot into XP. There are very simple guides on how to do this, and the Ubuntu community is very supportive when you need help with anything.
 
Plus, it's free

[Taz]

XP Pro SP2. Had Vista before, but it didn't take long before I changed...

[FIGHTER]

There's no SP4, third is latest.

woops, i guess that was an uneducated assumption. i have 2or 3 then  i think. could someone give me some info on Ubuntu games wise?

Games and Ubuntu don't mix. Most mainstream games need Windows components such as DirectX to run. Ubuntu does have a program that emulates any Windows version, but I've only gotten some relatively simple Windows programs to work, such as Photoshop. Games don't usually work, at least new ones.

Ubuntu is much better and  smoother for everyday stuff though, which is why I recommend a dual boot. I have both XP and Ubuntu on my laptop and I use Ubuntu for everyday stuff such as browsing the interwebs and when I feel like gaming, I boot into XP. There are very simple guides on how to do this, and the Ubuntu community is very supportive when you need help with anything.
 
Plus, it's free

Dual boot ftw btw Sounds good, maybe gonna buy a new Harddisk and instal triple boot    possible?

[Firefly]

Sure, as long as they're on different hard drives/partitions, you can have unlimited OSs. You might run into some problems with bootloaders conflicting and stuff, but those are pretty easy to fix with all the guides and tutorials out there.

I was running a triple boot on a single HD when I was trying different linux-based OSs on my laptop.

[JayFoxRox]

There's no SP4, third is latest.

woops, i guess that was an uneducated assumption. i have 2or 3 then  i think. could someone give me some info on Ubuntu games wise?

Games and Ubuntu don't mix. Most mainstream games need Windows components such as DirectX to run. Ubuntu does have a program that emulates any Windows version, but I've only gotten some relatively simple Windows programs to work, such as Photoshop. Games don't usually work, at least new ones.

Ubuntu is much better and  smoother for everyday stuff though, which is why I recommend a dual boot. I have both XP and Ubuntu on my laptop and I use Ubuntu for everyday stuff such as browsing the interwebs and when I feel like gaming, I boot into XP. There are very simple guides on how to do this, and the Ubuntu community is very supportive when you need help with anything.
 
Plus, it's free

Wine = Wine is NOT (an) Emulator

Nearly all games from DirectX7 up to DirectX9 work perfect on linux these days, you might have to make specific changes for some games but it shouldn't be too hard.
All of these games seem to work fine for me:

America's Army
Armadillo Run Demo
Atomic Bomberman
Barrel Mania
Bontago
Counter-Strike 1.6
Counter-Strike Source
Frets on Fire
GTA SA
GTA VC
GTA3
GTR2
Halo
JelloCar
Little Big Adventure
Little Big Adventure 2
Mop of Destiny
MTA SA
NewtonPlayGround
Penumbra - Episode Eins
Phoenix Dynasty
PuffBomb
Ragdoll Masters
Re-Volt
RollerCoaster Tycoon
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
Rudi
Snowboard Assassins
Soldat
Steam
StepMania
Stunt Playground
Super Mario War
SWAT 4
TileRacer
Timeshock
TM-Nations-Forever
Trampoline
Vietcong
Warsow
Zero Ballistics

Most of them better under Fedora Linux than they work under windows.
Unreal 3 was still not released for Linux, but I hope it will be out soon, that will make it possible to run tons of games natively on linux.

[Firefly]

I know what Wine stands for, and that it's not an emulator per se, but that's the best way I could describe it. I'm aware that you can get games running, but if you already have Windows (which you probably do if you own PC games) it's not worth the hassle in my opinion. It seems to be very configuration-dependent though. I read a guide on how to install a specific game with a specific version of Wine and it seemed to work for most people but crashed for some (including myself).

[Sucre]

I use WinBord it's an "Prefect" S.O it's really perfect... Games work awesome, it's fast, can use up to 3 ram, the skin is of course vista ones, it's light as hell.

Could you give more explanations? I have never ever heard of this before and neither wiki nor search engines seem to know this..

I have been using Fedora here and there (http://fedoraproject.org/), however I still didn't have the nuts to completly move over to Fedora so for now I use WinXP SP2 all the time.

Another thing which looks great is ReactOS and it has great potential, I m also making my own OS as a fun project but didn't have time for getting the thing working so far
My personal opinion is that the microsoft operating systems are overloaded with useless crap and that linux started to follow the same way, but instead of releasing the os in a whole, the linux-groups seem to chop everything so it gets even more complex. In the future, microsoft operating systems will come to an end, the trend will be some sort of emulation software for easily switching between different OS (cause there are so many standards).

Sorry my bad. It's WinBORG and it's FAST , LIGHT , nicely designed, it's a rebuilded XP by a kid.

[FIGHTER]

im gonna buy 2 new Harddisk and install 4 boot

[Technogeek]

Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit) Service Pack 1

[Ralleee]

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit Service Pack 1