Linux Ubuntu! Can I do these things with it?

How difficult is it to do these things on Linux?





1: Play PC Games(2006-2007)


2:Work with Web designing tools(such as dreamweaver)


3:Work with PL's such as C++ , Java , C


4:Easily listen to Music and watch Movies





5:Can I work with flash, like create flash games?





My Graphic card is Geforce 8800GT, will Linux support it? Can I easily install it on Linux?





Thanks

Linux Ubuntu! Can I do these things with it?
1) Only with an Emulator Try Wine or some other ones





2) Easily





3) So simplistic you will wonder why it was so hard on windows





4) Yes but, you will have to install a few codecs ( sounds like Windows to me).





5) It will be easy to use flash but developing flash programs will most likely require that you use your windows tools under wine.





6) Nvidia has graphics drivers for all of its graphics cards


Here is Nvidia's driver download site


http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.asp...





Plus Ubuntu can be configured to run as a dual boot system so you can have your cake and eat it too (lol).
Reply:Ubuntu comes with great games. Just install it and check out the repositories through Synaptic.


All what you have asked for can be done on Ubuntu. The OS being Linux, the tools available on it differ as well. So, you won't see dreamweaver, but an equivalent.





You can watch movies, play music, edit music and movies, and all such things.





Your graphics card works good with Ubuntu and other distros as well.
Reply:1) only with a windows emulator such as wine or vmware


2) see #1 for dreamweaver


3) yes


4) yes


5) yes





yes about the graphics card
Reply:Wine is an emulator for Linux and does not support DirectX API so you cant play any new games.





Stick with Windows as most of the things you listed are better on Windows except for application development.





Rhytmic box for Linux is nice and Supports DAAP shares for music. Use VLC for movies as it decodes using FFMpeg and supports most codecs.