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15Evan15
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i have a "windows 7 home premium for refurbished pcs" dsk that i got from work for free. im planning on building a pc, will this work? it says this "the refurbisher must have pre-installed on the PC. This software has been pre-installed and there is a special license for PC's that have been refurbished. The enclosed media is for back-up purposes only. Your PC has two COA labels; one from the original license the PC manufacturer installed and one from the PC's refurbisher." but i dont have the old PC. so can i use this on a new build

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No it won't.

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is there an os i can get for free? is steam free? does it require windows? what about linux?

Ubuntu is free (any Linux Distro).

What do you want to use the OC for?

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Ryzen 7 3800X | Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming | 16GB Team Group Dark Pro 3600Mhz | Corsair MP600 1TB PCIe Gen 4 | Sapphire 5700 XT Pulse | Corsair H115i Platinum | WD Black 1TB | WD Green 4TB | EVGA SuperNOVA G3 650W | Asus TUF GT501 | Samsung C27HG70 1440p 144hz HDR FreeSync 2 | Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS |

 

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Intel NUC running Server 2019 + Synology DSM218+ with 2 x 4TB Toshiba NAS Ready HDDs (RAID0)

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It sounds exactly like an OEM copy of windows, which won't legally transfer.

 

Steam is not an OS, it runs on linux and windows afaik.

 

There are lots of linux versions for free:

 

ElementaryOS - like apple osx

 

Ubuntu - most widely used

 

Linux Mint - prob second most popular and comes in 3 versions with different GUI options and goodies.

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It sounds exactly like an OEM copy of windows, which won't legally transfer.

 

Steam is not an OS, it runs on linux and windows afaik.

 

There are lots of linux versions for free:

 

ElementaryOS - like apple osx

 

Ubuntu - most widely used

 

Linux Mint - prob second most popular and comes in 3 versions with different GUI options and goodies.

can i use steam on ubuntu?  so your saying i just build a pc with the oarts and download ubuntu for free and download steam and buy games?

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so linux will run games like gta, far cry, minecraft , csgo, cod?

You'd be surprised, there are a lot of triple A games compared to just 2 years ago. You'd need to look at each game to be sure. Also There is something called Wine for linux (windows emulator) that is used to run a lot of windows apps and games.

 

https://www.winehq.org/

 

https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/833811-how-to-install-and-use-wine-to-run-windows-applications-on-linux

 

I am in no way a linux expert, I have just dabbled in it to check it out. There are surely some people on here much more qualified than me to answer harder questions.

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You'd be surprised, there are a lot of triple A games compared to just 2 years ago. You'd need to look at each game to be sure. Also There is something called Wine for linux (windows emulator) that is used to run a lot of windows apps and games.

 

https://www.winehq.org/

 

https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/833811-how-to-install-and-use-wine-to-run-windows-applications-on-linux

 

I am in no way a linux expert, I have just dabbled in it to check it out. There are surely some people on here much more qualified than me to answer harder questions.

Correct.

Performance may (and most likely will) be crap, so expect to have much higher specs to run the game, than what you would normally need for Windows. Performance drop is unclear to whom the fault is, but the possibilities are:

 -> Linux based OS itself

 -> Linux kernel

 -> OpenGL not performing well with the the way the game was initially designed if the game was written in DirectX. (some things are better done in OpenGL, other are better on DirectX, and the actual design of the game in loading things, managing things, etc. might be design in such a way that runs best with DirectX capabilities. Porting to OpenGL and have max performance, might require large part of the game be to re-done).

 -> Lack of optimizations by the developer on the OpenGL side with the Linux drivers of your graphics card, OR if they converted DirectX to OpenGL, they didn't optimize the OpenGL code, and/or shader code

 -> Manufacture drivers aren't proper optimized.

 

Just something to keep aware off. So stick with older games, and you should be ok.

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