Has main stream linux abandoned running games?

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@pinecloud

If you maintain weekly updated images of all your partitions, you can safely run everything as root.

If your PC is connected to the internet, then not so (as Axeia pointed out). Also, even if not connected to the internet, recovering from a backup takes time, … far more time than it does to occassionally type the root password.

@pinecloud

At this time, for linux and unix OS, you have to give exactly same numbers of cylinder counts per partition cloning for extreme safety unlike that of Norton Ghost32 on PCFS which can compress image by 30 - 40 percent on the fly. In unix, imaging may not be a right word, perhaps block by block and inode by inode cloning may be more appropriate for backup safer than dd. I also use TkZip for day to day differentials.

A complete hard drive cloning operation is OS independent, and will back up a dual boot setup. Pick the cloning application that is best for you. I used dd the other day on a PC with a triboot (winXP, winME, openSUSE), and it worked fine and it was fast (with the correct parameters included in the command).

@pinecloud

If you do not like permission and owner system imposed by unix and disable them all, careful double backup is necessary.

This IMHO is bad advice. I recommend all new users to ignore this.

@pinecloud

Have open Suse and Suse abandoned running games?

I don’t play games on openSUSE (other than chess, and setting up solitaire for my mother) so I can’t provide recommendations for getting games to run under Linux. Many users retain a dual boot (Linux/Windows) so as to play the games they want on their PC.

@pinecloud

Also open Suse lacks simple thing as mouse double click timing control. All previous KDE did have such control (in look and feel control) to accommodate someone with arthritis like myself who badly need such feature.

openSUSE-11.1 still comes with KDE-3.5.10, which is possibly the best KDE release to date.

@pinecloud

Open SUSE is visually very appearing but many things are missing what we used to have on Suse distributions.

I don’t think so. From my perspective, KDE-3.5.10 on openSUSE-11.1 is the best to date.

Again, reference your desire for games, give some thought to running a dual boot operation with openSUSE, and with the OS of your choice that runs games to the extent that you wish.