I’ve included a screenshot of me playing Morrowind. All of the required software that I use on a daily basis is available and runs great in Linux.Īll of my games worked out-of-the-box using the Windows games and software emulator* ( Read more about the Wine project). And the stuff I use my computer for is likely more intense than your average Joe since I’m a web developer. Life without Windows is certainly possible. All of the system files are kept entirely separate from my documents.This sort of division is done even with one single hard drive automatically by Mandriva so that if I ever need to format or upgrade the operating system I don’t lose any of my pictures, movies, or music, ever. The second drive is my ‘/home’ directory, where all of my documents are kept. The first one is mounted ‘/’ for all my system files and programs. I have two physical hard drives in my PC. Available for free with plenty of included software (Open Office suite, the Firefox web browser, Kopete messenger, Amarok media player, and much more), it’s always done the trick and looks wonderful doing so. My distribution of choice for desktop PCs has always been the fantastic Mandriva Linux. Well, it’s been just over a month since I made the switch to Linux from Windows.

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