[Talbain]

I like Xubuntu as an operating system more than pretty much any other OS I've used. Just... I like playing videogames more than using an OS.
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[Talbain]

While I suspect Windows 7 will be better than Vista (doesn't take much effort), I still seem to understand that Windows 7 will be just as much of a resource hog as Vista is. So that's rather problematic, especially for laptops (which I use exclusively now).

There was talk of something that is like a Windows 7 "source" or something, which is something like a Windows 7 devkit, it's just that it has a basic embedded OS. Were it expanded to be something like a "lite" version of Windows 7, I think that would be most preferable. The problem with new OSes is that they try to add more shit, when they haven't needed to add new shit for years. They need to make the already established stuff simpler and easier to interact with. Thus reducing input lag, less resource intensive and more clean code.
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[Talbain]

I'd actually use ubuntu exclusively if it ever released a really good SNES emulator. Unfortunately, nothing like SNESGT exists for Linux (bsnes is really not good unless you're looking to test what your game would do on hardware). Maybe if/when ZSNES 2.0 is released in the next century there might be enough reason... but then, that hasn't been released now has it?
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[Talbain]

Just being able to emulate games is really not what I'm looking for. Snes9X's sound core is utter shit. Not to mention that it still can't fully emulate all games thrown at it (as far as I know, only bsnes and SNESGT are made with this functionality baked in).

You can feel free to prove me wrong though. Try emulating Chrono Trigger on SNESGT and Snes9X and compare the two in terms of sound and sound effects. Pretty easy to tell which is superior. If it used blargg's sound core or something, I might reconsider, but I'm pretty sure the sound core for the port to Linux is untouched.
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[Talbain]

The hell is Compiz?
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[Talbain]

Ugh, did a google search for Compiz... ugh. Seriously just ugh. I also concur with liking xfce. It's clean and simple. Also not a resource whore.
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