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The biggest reason people shy away from Linux is definitely gaming. However what they don’t realize is that there are really some great Linux Native games out there. And a lot of games that run under windows can be ran under Linux under Wine.

I’m going to take you through a tour of the games I have tried running and give you an idea of the stuff that is out there. Please bear in mind I am running this all  on my Acer 5720Z, which I have some issues with some games, but that has no bearing on the OS per se. It’s more the graphic drivers that are available for the Intel 965 Graphics built into it at this time. There are newer drivers that are out, however I had experienced some issues with the unstable kernel they were running under so I had wound up reinstalling everything back to before making that switch. Anyway read on for the tour of gaming on Linux…
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I have made DVD’s before under Windows Vista using the Microsoft DVD Creator software and using Power Producer as well. But now under Linux I wanted to create DVD’s of the movies I have ripped (or downloaded) or created so that we can watch them on our DVD player or give the DVD’s as gifts for family and friends.

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I got Skype, LiVES, Audacity and VLC installed, however I haven’t really played with anything.  For some reason I was having some issues with Songbird.. GOing to reinstall it soon.  But mostly I was checking out Amarok.

Now Amarok is a decent player, however I am sketchy on the organization thing it does. It really messes up on the ID3 tags sometimes.

I have a few tunes (1 Andrew W.K. tune, Some “Weird Al” tunes and some Kabuto the Python tracks) which it decided to put everyone in mismatched folders. *sigh*

I hope I can get back to Songbird. I loved that program’s sorting feature a lot better. Also Amarok uses Amazon ONLY for the album art. WTF? Nothing I listen to is on there. BAH!

That’s it for today.

Today was an interesting day. I was off from work to get my license renewed but after I was able to sit and play around with a few things.

I downloaded a game called PlaneShift which is a free MMORPG. Not as good as Rapellz… Man I am missing that game. I should just install it on the Windows machine to play it. But I digress…

I said I wanted to Rip and Burn DVD’s as one of my points of usage for a computer, so I played with that. However I ran into some issues.

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