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Slash : I remembered somewhere way back in like page 3 you mentioned that HL2 will be too hard to port since they would have to port steam as well. Sorry to break it to you but Steam is already avaliable in Linux. Currently it is a console-only version for delivering the server version of...

I used to be a big slack fan. Ran a Half-Life server on it for a while till I got into gentoo. I suggest you give it a try. I don't mean to sound like a gentoo advertisement but check out the gentoo UT2k3-demo Live CD. It won't touch your harddrive and will autodetect ur hardware and play UT...

I also forgot to mention that Gentoo's documentation is unmatched in quality. If you follow every step and read the information, you will be guarranteed to have a great linux desktop.

I would say Gentoo (www.gentoo.org) if you really want to LEARN linux. Otherwise, Mandrake if u just want to install it to see what it is like. Debian is like gentoo but I find gentoo's portage system much more inteligent. That's not to say Debian is bad however.

Lindows I belive uses the WINE project to run windows apps. That's fine however it doesn't have sophisticated enough DirectX abilities. That means it'll play Half-Life (DX6) but not Half-Life2 (DX9).

And for those who think that Linux has a bad GUI, take a look at my KDE 3.1 desktop: (sorry for the terrible quality. 100k limit on a 1600x1200 file is harsh)

Ugh, I just finnished reading all eight pages and felt the sudden urge to post. I want to start off by saying that I work with most of the major operating systems on a constaint basis and I work with people that strongly prefer the macintosh OS over anything else. To be fair that these people...