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It's working! Thanks guys!

I finished installing, played a bit of the game. It connected to multiplayer fine. And when I closed out and came back, the game was still installed. Major success!

Thanks a lot guys! It's been a hard few-day transition, but I must say. Linux rules!
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Tallima: I open PlayOnLinux and have some options. I click on what seems to be the best option - Steam (Company of Heroes) and click Run.

I have it running the correct version of wine now and have dx9 and the c++ stuff installed correctly.

When I click on Steam (Company of Heroes) it opens up the steam client with no games installed.

I click on Company of Heroes (steam edition) and then click "Install."

That's where I'm at right now. It's still installing -- rather slowly today (internet is slow today).

The last time I did this, though, I clicked play and there was no noticable change. It was as if Play wasn't even a button to press on the Steam client. I was not using the correct version of Wine and I did not have the dx9 installed. And I had bad gfx drivers. So that could be a big difference. Last time, after I closed steam, if I tried to run Steam (Company of Heroes) from PlayOnLinux, I would get the steam client again without any games installed.

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As far as MS and Win10, I loved MS as of a few months ago. I have an older PC (core 2, 3ghz, gtx 650Ti, 4 gb ram) and I use my computer probably 5-8 hours per week on average. So I keep it turned off unless I'm on it. Each time I turn it on, Win10 downloads updates and take the full capacity of both cores to do it. So I've missed several gaming sessions with friends b/c I'm pulling 1 frame every 15 seconds.

I pick an OS to make get what I want done with my computer. And Win10 has taken away so much control from me that I no longer enjoyed my computer. Even without CoH, I'll probably keep Linux. It's now stable with my nVidia drivers, so it works. And it has almost everything I want. But more importantly, it has everything I need. Sadly, Win10 no longer gives me access to use my computer when I want to.

I almost went back to 7, but in 5 years, I'll be stuck with 10 still. So why bother? I'm just delaying the inevitable. And after having my CC stolen a few times and different accounts hacked a few times, it'll be nice not to have to re-image every 6 months just to keep the hackers off us.
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adamhm: ...helpful things...
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Tallima: Thank you! I was looking in an entirely different place to add these things. Thank you again!
Too much tin foil hat now?

Ignore the damn updates and update when you need to.

Just let it run.
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Tallima: I (...) have dx9 and the c++ stuff installed correctly.
That was recommended for some reason but not needed, as far as I could tell.

Great that you've got it running now, though. :)
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Tallima: Linux rules!
The man has spoken!

I'm sure this would've happened anyway but may I still ask friendly Linux locals to extend the warmest welcome by high-rating brave Tallima's singular achievement.

Wish you happy times with your new pet!
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Tallima: Linux rules!
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v3: The man has spoken!

I'm sure this would've happened anyway but may I still ask friendly Linux locals to extend the warmest welcome by high-rating brave Tallima's singular achievement.

Wish you happy times with your new pet!
Thank you! It's good to be here. :)

Some of my extended family thinks I'm crazy. But my wife said "That's way better! How much more than Windows does it cost? Can we save up to convert my laptop?"
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Tallima: Thank you! It's good to be here. :)

Some of my extended family thinks I'm crazy. But my wife said "That's way better! How much more than Windows does it cost? Can we save up to convert my laptop?"
Please don't take me wrong, but I love your wife.
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Tallima: ...

I almost went back to 7, but in 5 years, I'll be stuck with 10 still. So why bother? I'm just delaying the inevitable. And after having my CC stolen a few times and different accounts hacked a few times, it'll be nice not to have to re-image every 6 months just to keep the hackers off us.
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adamhm: ...helpful things...
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Tallima: Thank you! I was looking in an entirely different place to add these things. Thank you again!
ok, not sure if you're serious but just forget for a few minutes that i am supposedly a windows "shill" or "fanboy", and read this... www.utica.edu/academic/institutes/cimip/idcrimes/schemes.cfm

phishing is the most common(and according to the stats, the most effective) method for stealing credit card numbers and particulars. and before the internet was a thing, dumpster diving and stealing receipts thrown away at ATM machines was also a common method used by credit card fraudsters. (as for fraudsters going through your personal trash, AFAIK only known high-income individuals get targeted for that.)

you might want to be more careful with who or where you giving away your personal details to. and tear up those receipts unless you're keeping them for tax accounting.

as for hacked accounts, if your password can be found on any list of common passwords that password cracking programs use, you're vunerable no matter what OS you use. especially if you store personal info in your email account, and use the same password on various accounts. if your email account has personal particulars including credit card info,and it was hacked ,you won't even need to be phished to get your CC info stolen.

not too long ago, according to google, china hacked a bunch of gmail accounts... they didn't need to be using anything with "windows" on it, all the data is stored online... china don't give a fuck what OS you were using.
www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/02/us-google-hacking-idUSTRE7506U320110602

you want a perfectly secure OS? disable everything on it that can access the internet. heck ,just unplug your modem or router ,or remove your wireless hardware. and don't let anyone use your computer. of course you'll still have to shred your trash... and not swipe your card at any store that looks even vaguely shady... or use any ATMs that have been tampered by fraudsters...you should get the idea by now.

you guys make it so hard for me to NOT be anal-retentive.
Post edited November 10, 2015 by dick1982
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Tallima: ...

I almost went back to 7, but in 5 years, I'll be stuck with 10 still. So why bother? I'm just delaying the inevitable. And after having my CC stolen a few times and different accounts hacked a few times, it'll be nice not to have to re-image every 6 months just to keep the hackers off us.

Thank you! I was looking in an entirely different place to add these things. Thank you again!
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dick1982: ok, not sure if you're serious but just forget for a few minutes that i am supposedly a windows "shill" or "fanboy", and read this... www.utica.edu/academic/institutes/cimip/idcrimes/schemes.cfm

phishing is the most common(and according to the stats, the most effective) method for stealing credit card numbers and particulars. and before the internet was a thing, dumpster diving and stealing receipts thrown away at ATM machines was also a common method used by credit car fraudsters. (as for fraudsters going through your personal trash, AFAIK only known high-income individuals get targeted for that.)

you might want to be more careful with who or where you giving away your personal details to. and tear up those receipts unless you're keeping them for tax accounting.

as for hacked accounts, if your password can be found on any list of common passwords that password cracking programs use, you're vunerable no matter what OS you use. especially if you store personal info in your email account, and use the same password on various accounts. if your email account has personal particulars including credit card info,and it was hacked ,you won't even need to be phished to get your CC info stolen.

not too long ago, according to google, china hacked a bunch of gmail accounts... they didn't need to be using anything with "windows" on it, all the data is stored online... china don't give a fuck what OS you were using.
www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/02/us-google-hacking-idUSTRE7506U320110602

you want a perfectly secure OS? disable everything on it that can access the internet. heck ,just unplug your modem or router ,or remove your wireless hardware. and don't let anyone use your computer. of course you'll still have to shred your trash... and not swipe your card at any store that looks even vaguely shady... or use any ATMs that have been tampered by fraudsters...you should get the idea by now.

you guys make it so hard for me to NOT be anal-retentive.
This is true. In fact, I found some vulnerabilities when we were evaluating our security situation that didn't involve Windows at all.

I must say, I was not uninstalling Windows 10 because of security issues. But Linux is certainly less of a target and is open-source, so that should help with security.

6 months ago, I was a self-declared M.S. fanboy. I still really like M.S. (company, not the disease). They do a lot of things right. And Win10 + XboxOne (which I hope to get in a year or two -- probably whenever I beat Witcher 2 :D) is a really awesome connection.

All that said, my old PC doesn't cope with Win10 at all. Since it aggressively downloaded and installed updates while I was attempting to use you PC, I no longer had access to my PC. *I* want to use my PC when I want to use my PC. I don't want Windows to use my PC when I want to use my PC. So that was it. I needed another option after that b/c I kept having to say "Sorry guys. Apparently I can't play tonight. Windows wants to do its thing." It happened once, then twice, then three times and then pretty much every time I wanted to play. I hoped it would be short-lived, but it wasn't. So that's it for me.

And now that I've made the switch, I love it. It was a few days of pain-in-the-butt hardships and took probably 10 hours to learn everything and get everything how I wanted it to just simply do anything. But once I was up to speed, now I can use my PC again. I can play every single game I was playing without any problems. And I can still access my email and pay my bills.

So Linux does 100% of everything I wanted Windows to do and none of the things that Windows was keeping me from doing. On top of that, it's free. So that's why I switched.
^ good for you then, though personally i wouldn't have installed Win10 in the first place just because MS said so.

and be forewarned, the linux community don't really care about old and/or obscure hardware, so sooner or later the next update on your linux variant could very well screw up one or two of your devices... most likely your video card or sound chip. so you'll still end up buying a new pc anyway(it can't TOO NEW either because linux drivers). or you could stick to an older version of the variant and have security issues, similar to using an old unsupported Windows OS(XP/Vista/7).

installing linux just delayed the inevitable. blaming windows for your problems? well, that just triggers my irrational need to correct anything i find "inaccurate".
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dick1982: and be forewarned, the linux community don't really care about old and/or obscure hardware,
Linux Torvalds, the creator of Linux, refuses to remove hardware support from the kernel if even one user still needs it. And we are talking about some antique technologies.
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v3: Linux Torvalds, the creator of Linux
The creator of Linux (the Kernel) but not Linux operating systems. :)
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Tallima: I finished installing, played a bit of the game. It connected to multiplayer fine. And when I closed out and came back, the game was still installed. Major success!

Thanks a lot guys! It's been a hard few-day transition, but I must say. Linux rules!
Welcome to our "side of the street" . :) I hope you will have a fun & positive experience. ;)
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v3: Linux Torvalds, the creator of Linux
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0Grapher: The creator of Linux (the Kernel) but not Linux operating systems. :)
Yeah :) To quote Linus himself:

And I actually think it's the right thing to do, to say: "Hey, we're doing our OS". And when they say OS, they mean more than just a kernel, and when I say OS I usually mean just the kernel. But if you're doing your OS, Linux is a central, but it's still just a small part of the overall thing ...
and:

So I absolutely *love* the distributions, because they are doing all the things that I’m not interested in, and even very early on they started being a big support for the kernel, and driving all the things that most technical people (including very much me) didn’t tend to be interested in: ease of use, internationalization, nice packaging, just making things a good “experience”.
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v3: when they say OS, they mean more than just a kernel
I'm sure that most people who aren't Linux experts mean more than a kernel when talking about an OS.
That's why you shouldn't call Linus Torvalds the creator of Linux but call him the creator of the Linux Kernel.
Post edited November 12, 2015 by 0Grapher
Just for your information. Company of Heroes 2 runs native on Linux. (You can install Steam for Linux and than install it directly.)