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Originally Posted by AC199
Typical Linux user, arrives late to the party as he had to spend so long compiling his latest kernel...
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No kernels were compiled in the making of this post! With the repositories as they are now (in my case OpenSuse), there's no need to compile anything for ordinary use. Indeed, I think Linux has better driver support than Win 7 these days, certainly for older devices.
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Originally Posted by AC199
Its awesome if you dont want to game, if you do, forget it...
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No arguments there - I do game on Linux, but not that much - some games have ports or work through Wine. Many don't work at all. Problems usually arise with copy protection. I've discovered ripping an ISO of the game disk and mounting it as a drive letter for Wine solves a lot of issues, esp. with multi-disk volumes.
Now for HD video - there are a host of good players- Kaffeine, VLC etc., and quite a few decent video editors (I've settled on OpenShot). I've long since settled on apps for most other desktop uses.
Getting back to the graphics card issue, a high-power graphics card is a total waste (mostly excess idle power consumption) if it's not used to game. From the OP, it sound like he's after the same sort of cards that HTPC users go for - principle features would be HD video hardware acceleration, multiple outputs and silent running.