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I am building an new PC and want to save on buying win 8 until later. What would be a good linux Distro for someone that has very little experience with it? Ubuntu?

Or should I figure out a way to get win 7 or win8?

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I would say ubuntu because I'm linux noob myself.

 

 

 

EDIT: It also looks nice.

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Will Ubuntu win as well as windows (FPS wise)? I have a sc 780 and an i5 4670k. Will I get the same performance?

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Ubuntu.

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Ubunut and all of it's variants (Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu); Elementary OS wich looks AMAZING and is based in ubuntu; Linux Mint.

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Will Ubuntu win as well as windows (FPS wise)? I have a sc 780 and an i5 4670k. Will I get the same performance?

If you play the right game, performance will be better, but improvements are minimal. Linux uses less resources is really the only benefit, and you don't need that with a 780 and i5.

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Will Ubuntu win as well as windows (FPS wise)? I have a sc 780 and an i5 4670k. Will I get the same performance?

i dont think there are any games on linux that would use the full potential of those components but i could be wrong dont quote me.

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I am building an new PC and want to save on buying win 8 until later. What would be a good linux Distro for someone that has very little experience with it? Ubuntu? Or should I figure out a way to get win 7 or win8?

 

I'd go with Ubuntu, really easy to set up, full GUI [you basically won't see the terminal unless you want to], Steam works perfectly fine on it and with Wine and PlayOnLinux you can play almost any game easily ^^

 

Although I'd suggest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. 13.xx is crap.

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Will Ubuntu win as well as windows (FPS wise)? I have a sc 780 and an i5 4670k. Will I get the same performance?

yes Valve games (L4D etc)

attributed to OpenGL i believe

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Say If I were to play bf4 and minecraft. Would there be a noticeable difference form playing those games on windows vs linux

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Linux Mint, Ubuntu or Elementary OS, whichever one looks better to you.

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I use Ubuntu but Mint users will prefer it over Ubuntu. Also elementary is a nice clean looking distro too. Honestly it's all about personal opinion download the ISOs for each distro I mention and give each of them a spin and see what you like the most.

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As a noobish, I found debian was pretty good.

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