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Greetings

My Window Vista 32-bit Asus G2S has been declared defective and dead and is being replaced with this system (free of charge by Asus - below) as a replacement.

I am planning to dual boot it or to use it with Ubuntu only depending on the way it will work with Ubuntu.

Asus G71G-Q1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdqcjP0PZ4U

The benchmarks look decent for EVE, but I am not a "Gamer" and so much of this is Greek to me... I have three questions here for the linux group here.

1. How does this look for gaming benchmarks and such for the current iteration of EVE?
2. How do I install PYTA in Ubuntu? - I see a Windows, Mac and other (Ubuntu noob here, but learning)
3. How do I optimize this system for EVE and EVE tools? - I am planning nothing on this system but the OS and EVE and tools and a few apps - but it's going to be my EVE-RIG, not even other games, 100% EVE box.

thanks and any other suggestions or ideas or tools would be appreciated... my ideal situation would be Ubuntu 12.04 - 64bit, Wine, EVE, and host of used EVE tools, EVE bookmarks and then play my wea

Thanks for the reply.

Not to worried about the learning curb, shouldn't be a big deal - have 15 years in IT, and just never played with Linux much beyond SuSE 9.0 and then a trifle with 11.10 OO when that was released, decided to throw 12.04 on the back-top cold turkey and just learn as I go, so far, doing pretty good.

I am a bit mystified by the folder system but starting to find things, only the WINE directories seem to be missing or hidden... but I managed to figure out how to install and uninstall programs so HD space isn't being wasted.

Sorry meant PYFA, I was typing from memory, tried EFT but it didn't want to update the char info for me... I know that PYFA works in Linux so I thought I would try that, but not sure if I should install it under WINE or use the "other" but I did get things working with the .py extention.

THIS IS SO MUCH FUN!... so I am really turned on by putting 64-bit on the laptop when it comes this week... and also due to it having 6GB of RAM and all that needs 64 bit or I am not going to have it even working at capacity from what I understand... or does Linux 32 bit recognize more than the 3 GB that windows will not... I was pretty sure that no 32 bit system could recognize anything more than 3 GB.

Linux 32bit supports up to 64GB of memory -> Physical Address Extension


Not completely true, wine exists in 64bit (I have it on both my desktop and laptop and runs just fine), but it could be that some distributions do not provide it, i.e. Ubuntu might not have it in the repositories.


This is indeed true, so best to look up how to install those 32bit libraries in Ubuntu. Here is already some place to start from.

You know, this may be way out in left field for your thought process, but according to distrowatch the current reigning champion of linux is Mint. Its an Ubuntu derivative. The reason I mention it, is not only does Mint 13 provide everything that Ubuntu provides (it uses a lot of their repos, I even installed Wine 1.5.5 from the Wine-Dev Ubtuntu PPA) but the newest iteration of Mint also is a long term support version, meaning Mint 13 (based on Ubuntu 12.04) will get 5 year support. This is a large part of why I recently chose it myself.

Instead of KDE or Unity, Mint comes in two flavors, Cinnamon (which is based around Gnome 3) and MATE. MATE, being a fork of Gnome 2, is quite lightweight compared to the juggernauts.

As per what to do afterwards with it, I've got EVE running beautifully now (sans captain's quarters), with overall fps 50% higher than running in Windows 7 x64. There's slightly more delay in transitioning loaded areas though (like undocking). I'm trying to port EVEMon using Mono into a native solution, down to a single (big, as I need to learn mono to fix) error which I'm still working on. Only thing I had to drop support for was Outlook calendar integration. I think my next project will be getting EFT working.

I was in the Fedora camp for several years, stopped with them due to their lack of support for products past a short life span. I've got a lot of experience at Red Hat via SSH. Since I came to Linux full time on my home desktop a few weeks ago, I tried Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, KXStudio, openSUSE, Arch, Debian, and Mint. Of the lot, I was most impressed with Mint. I tried Unity, KDE4, Gnome4, Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE, and XFCE, and preferred MATE (was in the Gnome 2 camp until it got broken apart, so I may be biased on that choice). Any of the GUI's can be on most any distro, so do try them all until you really like one.

If you're just getting your feet really wet, I strongly suggest try a few before you ultimately decide.. if you're getting another laptop to work with, sounds like a great place to try giving a few a go since its a fresh playing field.