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Originally Posted by thisisntjared
um red hat? suse? comeon i have lots of experience with both and the only reason not to go that route is support for gaming. is your wife really that much of a techie?
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Not exactly, but we'd like to keep as much power on-tap instead of bogging it down with useless items. She's more mainstream IE, Word, etc. So...
When I find some down-time, I like to play MS Flight Simulator (I'd actually like to fly for-real, but it's just too expensive - so I settle for for the game).
I bought FS-X when it came out a couple of months ago and the box gave ranges of "Minimum" requirements. Knowing that this was hogwash, I figured that my newer HP laptop could handle it as the specs were well above the minimum. Nope -- totally worthless. Not even close. So, I basically kept the game until a faster computer came along and used the old version of FS.
Enter the new laptop
My wife doesn't play games on it, but I just might when it's not in-use
So I like to free-up as many resources as possible to get the best frame-rate. I haven't tried FS-X on it yet, but I'm sure better dimensional clarity can be cranked-up.
So guilty as charged with the better video card
RH77