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I’m interested! 🙂
Which OS are you using most of the time? Can you play I-War on it without problems?
I myself am using Slackware64 – I grew tired of having constant problems with Windows a long while back and made the transition to a more friendly system (at least for me).
The I-War series works like a charme on it with wine.
I do have Windows 7 for second boot in case of an emergency (or a game that won’t work) and I like it.
Is anyone playing I-War on a Mac here? 😆
Space. The final frontier.
Windows 7. All that’s needed to get I-War2 working on it is to set the .exe file to run in compatibility mode for windows XP SP3.
I always loved the eye candy in 7, so I was a little grouched when 8 looked like a pile of tiles. Also, my brothers have a lot of problems with older games on 8, and those are the ones I play most, so I avoid it.
But if they could get all Windows programs to run on Linux, I’d probably switch. (It’s free.) 😆–IronDuke
I-War 2 Discord: https://discord.gg/RWaabWB
Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. 🙂Windows 7 as well. I can run all games, although it may take some fiddling especially with older games. I think that Win 7 is the single best OS Microsoft has ever made, but if I ever need to change my OS, I won’t go for another Windows version (that would be Windows 10, which is not really a stand-alone OS but an OS-as-a-service, which is an absolute no-go for me).
I have played Independence War 2 on an XP and on my Windows 8 laptop. On my Windows 8, I run it in compatibility mode for XP service pack 3. The only problems I have is with some versions of Torn Stars, and with one of the files for Buda 5 X-mas pack.
This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay
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I’ve switched to Windows 10 now and it really has two sides.
It seems they listened a lot to their users – the start menu is back, Metro apps can be handled better with resizing and many more little changes. They also took some concepts from Linux (like virtual desktops, although it’s a little half-assed). So far, enjoyable, for free and fancy.
The other side of the coin is that Windows is sending a lot of stuff to Microsoft, even when it’s explicitely disabled in all of the settings you have to search for. Seems like they’re going their way to make money with users’ data now.
That can be blocked with a nice tool, though:
https://github.com/Nummer/Destroy-Windows-10-Spying
Also, the automatic driver installation can be a real pain if a failing driver will be installed. I have a Notebook with an old Geforce 8600. Windows driver failed and was installed every five minutes until I killed Windows Update for good. Shoving updates down our throat, will they ever learn that it’s not the right way?
Space. The final frontier.
I predict that there will be an arm’s race between Micro$oft and spykiller developers. Not sure who’ll win. And since I value my privacy too much, I won’t touch Win10. That being said, as soon as I have the time, I’ll start looking for a cheap copy of Win8.1. It’ll be supported for quite some time and is the last “classic” OS from MS. Then again, maybe it’s time I start looking hard at Linux and its myriad of distributions… ^^
[quote=”7upMan” post=19963]I predict that there will be an arm’s race between Micro$oft and spykiller developers.[/quote]
That’s not even neccessary. We already had incidents with spykiller developers copying other spykiller apps and putting their own spy software into their clones 😛
They’re destroying themselves. DWS looks pretty solid, though. It uses the Windows firewall to block Microsoft itself – which is really working, because if you sniff the network, nothing gets out anymore.
If you want to try Linux – just one advice: Stay away from Ubuntu. I recommend Arch Linux or Slackware (if you’re not afraid of reading manuals).
Space. The final frontier.
The German computer magazine c’t quite recently had an article that compared the various distros. Since I don’t trust American companies for obvious reasons, I’ll limit myself to a European one. And that doesn’t leave many.
I don’t understand. Linux is developed collaborately.
Slackware’s head is Pat Volkerding, I believe he’s an American, too. But most of the development comes from users all around the world, there’s nothing not to trust than hundreds of eyes. 🙂
There are not a lot of commercial distributions. I only remember RedHat or Oracle Linux for being very commercial.
Other distros like Ubuntu tried to sneak Amazon ads into their distro or had other privacy issues, but whenever this happens they lose a lot of credibility.
Space. The final frontier.
The thing is that since Edward Snowden, we know that government agencies (as in secret services) can pressure American companies to do almost anything. I am not willing to take that risk. Granted, there is no guarantee that companies in the EU can’t be bullied the same way by the secret services in their own countries, but the laws allow for much more protection from the government.
I have my eyes on a distro that is being developed in the EU and seems to have no ties to American companies (which is the case with once-German SUSE, for example).
That sounds really paranoid. I mean, most distributions have a very transparent build system where you can see exactly how software is built.
They all take the same sources and build their programs off of it. No companies mixing stuff in there.
I’m more concerned about Android phones with closed source modem firmware than about Slackware which just builds software, puts it conveniently together with an installer and calls it a distribution 😉
Space. The final frontier.
If you worked in the security sector, you’d be paranoid, too. For example, I never use my Android phone for work-related stuff. My Windows system is also locked up quite well, or so I hope. Anyway, there *are* European distros, and I fully intend to explore them once the need is pressing enough.
By the way, what software do you use for playing Windows games on Linux? What other Windows games do you play on Linux beside I-War (2)?
Maybe, but given the fact that OpenSSL was broken for years and it is Open Source, there is nothing we can really do about these security issues. Software has grown quite complex and it doesn’t matter where it comes from, someone *will* always exploit it.
The only way around this is not using any computers at all. 😀
I use a combination of wine, wine-staging and wine-nine (which brings me native DirectX9 support on Linux).
It works very well. Wrote a little bit about that here:
http://schmatzler.de/en/2015/09/17/directx9-spiele-nativ-unter-linux-geniessen/
I’ve played through Betrayer, like I mentioned there. Which is quite funny, because it would always crash on one level when I was using windows. It turns out, the game crashes if you have really low RAM. But: The level loaded just fine on Linux. Fuck you, MS! 😛
I also enjoy the Batman: Arkham series (the first three games) on Linux or more recently, Tomb Raider: Guardian of Light.
Without staging and nine, game support is very limited, though.
Space. The final frontier.
I just read your article. God this is so complicated.
Can you play F2P titles like World of Tanks, War Thunder and MechWarrior: Online?
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