[Phantom Hoover]

I gotta try something either way ....wine....or Play on Linux...or learning the terminal because the other games I cant get to run

As MarkN says, you can get pre-made Linux executables that should just work out of the box.

Luis: I get what you're saying but I cannot repeat enough times that building **** requires no familiarity with the command line whatsoever. On desktop systems you don't even need to type in filenames, you can just drag and drop from your file browser. It's not ideal but it's so simple I don't think anyone's really bothered to come up with a GUI-based interface for it.

[niffiwan]

It's a shame I can't get OpenSuse build service to work with the non 12.04 versions of Ubuntu, it seems Ubuntu moved libopenal1 into the universe (??) repo and I can't get the OBS to pull that in for a compile 

On the upside, given that onlyjob seems to be packaging FSO for debian, it'll filter down to ubuntu anyway (eventually).

[Luis Dias]

Luis: I get what you're saying but I cannot repeat enough times that building **** requires no familiarity with the command line whatsoever.

My comment was aimed at Matths' bewilderement that people might love the idea of Linux (and even Linux at all) but hate the idea of terminals.

I get what you are saying perfectly. I still fear all that work because I would have to learn and comprehend all that **** before making huge mistakes. And I have no time for that kind of specialized skill that I wouldn't use for anything else at all.

[wolfen]

Well guys I think my problem might be solved, some idiot hit a telephone pole earlier and we totally lost Internet, so I figured what the heck I'll try something, so heres what I did, I put the original Seagate utilities disk in and formated the hard drive and set the boot sector, then I installed Vista again, and so far so good, so then I put the Ubuntu disk in and tried partitioning the hard drive, and since I got confused I installed Ubuntu ALONG SIDE windows, I now have a 500 gig Hdd split in half, one half is Windows Vista, the other is the real operating system ............Ubuntu, and I can say that since windows will ONLY be used for running two games, Ubuntu will be used for everything else.