I have a spanky new system with Windows XP on it (blegh, spit) and asked the dudes building it to leave me 20 gig on the drive for Linux. I'm after suggestions for the best distro and setup to use for Vendetta (and am kinda assuming this might also be good advice for other games...).

The hardware is an Athlon 64 3000+, an nVidia Nforce motherboard, and an nVidia 6800 GT graphics card.

I've done the whole Gentoo thing before so I'm not a stranger to doing a custom compile, but does it really make much difference?

Go gentoo. Just make sure that when you build the system with x86-64, you install the x86-32 compat libs.

Vendetta is still played best on Windows.

Thank you for trolling. But, because we're nice people, we won't take the bait, and we'll wait until a mod gets here to put your post in the land of CHUDs.

> I've done the whole Gentoo thing before so I'm not a stranger to
> doing a custom compile, but does it really make much difference?

I have an Athlon64 system, and I run Gentoo on it. IMHO, if you are comfortable with doing a stage1 Gentoo install, then definitely go for it.

If you don't want to do the Gentoo thing, then go with Fedora or Mandrake, or whatever distro you like that has a AMD64 build.

The Ubuntu x86_64 version is very nice. Ubuntu in general is very nice.

Im another gentoo guy on amd64, stage1s only take a coupla hours on amd64, so it wont take a lot of your time, and I personally advise going with it, also , go x86-64 and to make sure you have 32bit compatibility just add multilib to your use flags.