[ale] Best Linux distro for Games/Multimedia

[James Taylor]

I can recommend openSUSE 10.3.

It provides links to all the add-on repositories you need for the media stuff, I believe it even includes DIV-X support.  I run Kaffeine for most of my media, with Amarok for mp3 management.

My son insists on being able to play all of the first person shooter games he can find, and they work well using Cedega.  
I hear you can get the base wine set up to work, but I'm lazy so I let others do the heavy lifting for games.

-jt


James Taylor
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>>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:56 PM, in message
<87f94c370711230956j4434be4fpcf5decfc15f009a2 at mail.gmail.com>, "Greg Freemyer"
<greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote: 
> All,
> 
> I have a 15-year old nephew that is giving Linux a shot on his PC.
> 
> Somehow a friend of his gave him a copy of Fedora 5 so he currently
> has that installed.  Obviously I need to get him on a newer distro.
> 
> His 2 big complaints are no DIV-X player for multimedia and no first
> person shooter games.
> 
> i've never done much of either with Linux but they seem like
> overcome-able issues at least at some level, so I'm curious what would
> be a good distro to move him to.  One of the issues is an easy
> software install system for games, since I assume he will want to try
> various ones.
> 
> I would prefer to either go to OpenSUSE 10.3 or Fedora 8 since I will
> likely end up helping him out.
> 
> Also, is there a mailinglist for young newbie linux users like him?
> 
> Thanks
> Greg