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You're going to need drivers for everything from the network adapter to the DVD-drive to the sound card, not to mention stuff like extra buttons on a mouse.

If you managed to find every driver you need in 64bit for Kubuntu, more power to you. I was nowhere near that lucky even with 32bit, damn billions of different wireless cards. Also, I don't have any hate for Linux, if you can get it to run and actually get stuff done on it, awesome, but from my experience it requires quite a bit of fidgeting and I really hope you love the terminal. Why not try a Mac? The OS is free with the computer and it's super special awesome(or so I hear).

Have you played Uncharted 2? Oh god no! I'd rather have all combat played out by having kart races.

@213374U: evidently EA doesn't agree with you or is run by people who know nothing of business management.

Damn, I just realised something: my creative Zen drivers/software might not work with WINE. That might be a good enough reason not to switch I'll have to find out. Also, you can get W7 for pretty cheap if not free if you are a student or better an IT student. As for drivers, I was speaking generally, but it would be a good idea to see if all the drivers you're going to need are available for 64 bit or at all, for that matter.

The biggest thing is that you need 64bit drivers and getting Linux drivers is hard enough as it is...

That's probably also true. While nice for us, demos are quite a hassle for companies(they have to move some developers to work on the demo when they could polish the game or add extra content) and not really worth it.

I must have missed your point, because I don't see where I have a "problem" (wow, I actually like playing games!), or how the raison d'

Welcome to 6 moths ago...

That seems like a problem on your end. Companies don't exist to make you happy, they exist to make money. It's quite possible that EA is using Securom to make the shareholders happy.

Mint or bust! Having a little OS on a thumbdrive is pretty much all that Linux is good for anyway

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It saves a bunch of time on messing with all the sliders. There are people who spend hours tweaking that stuff. As a demo, it's worthless.

QFT. I never quite found out why they don't make demos or put them out a month or more after game release. It's like they want people to try warez and then hope they'll buy it. Not that I approve of this trend, but the answer is quite simple: the cost(time and resources) is not worth the perceived benefits. Also it's probably harder to make a demo for an RPG than a more linear game, especially one that actually gives an overview of what the game has to offer.

Bah, that's nothing.

It was only illegal for me to download because I was under 18. Some sweet ASCII porn on 14.4Kb modem, right?

Well, they're dirt cheap now. You can get a 24'' 1920x1200 one for like $200.

CRTs are the devil! And I though I was behind the times when I switched to LCD back in 2005...

They both have "V"s in them...

It's not all puppies and rainbows, they're still delaying the PS3 version,

LOLthulhu

Because everyone is totally excusing them... Oh wait.

Wearing sunglasses all the time is going to be totally sweet!

We aren't getting any younger. How much longer till that direct neural interface, damn it?

You're just conservative while I reach for the skies.