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So Linux has most of the things I need for what I do, but some of the games I want to play are for Mac and Windows. Personally I don't enjoy Windows very much, and that's my personal opinion. Personal reference, but since some of my games are playable on Mac, could I dual-boot with Mac and Linux? I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as my main OS. I even thought of maybe using VirtualBox..I have an OS X Lion disk, and I might possibly be able to install Mavericks or Yosemite. I also plan to pretty soon get a 660 TI so that I can play more. Integrated GPU is temporarily..

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So Linux has most of the things I need for what I do, but some of the games I want to play are for Mac and Windows. Personally I don't enjoy Windows very much, and that's my personal opinion. Personal reference, but since some of my games are playable on Mac, could I dual-boot with Mac and Linux? I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as my main OS. I even thought of maybe using VirtualBox..I have an OS X Lion disk, and I might possibly be able to install Mavericks or Yosemite. I also plan to pretty soon get a 660 TI so that I can play more. Integrated GPU is temporarily..

 

You could do that, but I have a better solution: install wine. It llows you to run most windows games directly inside ubuntu. Give that a try, then come back if it doesn't work :)

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You could do that, but I have a better solution: install wine. It llows you to run most windows games directly inside ubuntu. Give that a try, then come back if it doesn't work :)

I have Wine, but the game I'm wanting to play is called Stranded Deep. Will that work in Wine? 

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I have Wine, but the game I'm wanting to play is called Stranded Deep. Will that work in Wine? 

 

Probably, but look at what I found https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/survival-game-stranded-deep-will-come-to-linux-later.4823/

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Yeah, I've seen that. The problem is that most developers who say that make you wait a while before the release. One of the reasons I was thinking of dual-booting virtually, is because I also have school stuff I need Mac for.

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You can definitely dual boot Ubuntu, Mac and Windows. You could dual boot anything with Ubuntu, even other Linux distros.

 

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Yeah, I've seen that. The problem is that most developers who say that make you wait a while before the release. One of the reasons I was thinking of dual-booting virtually, is because I also have school stuff I need Mac for.

 

then I suggest you follow the instructions here http://www.hackintosh.com to install osx, then install ubuntu. I'm afraid it won't work the other way around.

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then I suggest you follow the instructions here http://www.hackintosh.com to install osx, then install ubuntu. I'm afraid it won't work the other way around.

Alright man, thanks!

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