I recently picked up the latest Maximum PC magazine, and the demo CD included among other things, a demo of Mechwarrior 4: Vengenence. The first problem comes up when I saw that it's by Microsoft. . . the second comes up when, after you've installed the demo, it says that it needs DX8 to run. Fucking microsoft, I can't believe that they'd push an inferior product like that. I personally haven't heard very many good things about DX8 as far as gaming goes, and I don't understand why MS would be so arrogant. Then again I should have known better, after all they did release windows. fucking bastards, I just don't believe that FASA (they made the original RPG dice game) would license out to those over inflated pigs at Microsoft. I HATE MICROSOFT!!!!! And please spare me the "linux is better" rhetoric. If linux is so great why hasn't someone come up with a way to install linux over windows, and not have to format your hard drive and inevitably lose information you'd like to keep, don't even get me started on how linux isn't standardized. . .I mean come on two different GUI's, that just drives me nuts, I would have already switched if it weren't for that.[/rant]

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why hasn't someone come up with a way to install linux over windows, and not have to format your hard drive and inevitably lose information you'd like to keep

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There are several things that can aid you in this. Partitioon Magic, Disk Druid (on Mandrake install) etc... Hell, many distros have a version of WinLinux too (which i find, what is the point of running a powerful and stable OS on top of the complete oposite ) As far as X goes, KDE has pretty much taken the cake. Gnome is good sure, but KDE is much prettier IMO. And you would think the gui issue would not even be an issue since things built for X run regardless of the gui. X is X. Just a matter of having gtk et all installed.

I had no idea that MS bought FASA. . . that licks balls, of course it does get around that little licensing issue. I'm still pissed about that DX8 thing though.

Red, damn straight MW2 was the best. . . I have that and Mercenaries, that one kicks ass too.

CIA . . . BLORB!!

Any true Mechwarrior will know what that means.

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...TheKiller

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...TheKiller

anyody played (and beaten)the n00 one?

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Ghost Face Killer

Oh! and by the way, all 9x OS's by Microsoft really suck. Stop bitching, we've all known about it for years (what can you say about a 16 bit operating system?). XP is what you should get when it comes out. Much, much better. It's essentially Win2k with home support. I've been screwing with the beta, runs well. Has all the ME quirks, including the really shitty video editor. It also has a 16bit game emulator so that you can run all those REALLY old games that wont run under 2k.