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Bob2004:
--- Quote from: meancrayon on February 19, 2012, 05:32:15 PM ---Though now that I've seen this, I kind of want to try it out, just because it's based on Hikaru no Go, one of the best series of ALL TIME. <3
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Things like that are why Linux is great. It's so customisable, and you can make it do pretty much anything. For just general use, I think it's inferior to a closed, more stable system like Windows, but if you just want to mess around with computers, or you have some specific task you want to accomplish, it can't be beaten.
In a weird coincidence, I literally just finished watching Hikaru no Go a few minutes ago, and I'm kinda tempted to give Go a try now, so maybe I'll download that Hikarunix live cd. It sounds interesting.
EDIT: Or not, it doesn't seem to have been updated since 2005, and even finding a good download of it is troublesome. Knowing Linux, if it's that outdated it probably won't even work fully on my PC anyway.
shikitohno:
There's go programs out there for just about any major distro. I know gnugo is available on Fedora, Arch, and Ubuntu, and I'm pretty sure there's a few graphical frontends to it floating about. I've stumbled across various other ones here and there that you may need to build from source if you want them, but you should be able to play it pretty easily. Yahoo also has go in their games section as I recall, though be prepared to get your ass handed to you by a lot of people until you get the hang of it.
Concerning the compatability issue, I'm kind of apathetic on that one. For data and stuff, linux makes it pretty easy to get at your windows and OS X stuff provided you've got the right packages installed, which quite a few distros include out of the box these days. Mint and Ubuntu work right away with NTFS drives for me. Microsoft goes out of their way to make it a pain in the neck to interact with Linux filesystems from Windows. For programs, I feel like people should really have to dual boot if they still want to be able to run all their windows games anyway. After all, nobody complains that PS3 can't play Wii games, right? Different systems, can't expect them to mesh up 100% of the time. Wine will ease some of your pain in this area, but it won't work for all programs, and it's not really meant to.
Bob2004:
Yeah, it just seemed like a good collection of beginner's resources conveniently bundled together. I found a few websites explaining how to play, as well as GNUGo for Windows instead, which works well (tends to crash a lot though), but it turns out Go is a lot harder than you'd think from just watching Hikaru no go, so I don't think I'm likely to get into it.
shikitohno:
Go is a pretty tough game. I'd say it's a lot more difficult to play well than something like chess. It can be quite satisfying once you finally start managing to pull off good moves every once in a while. Of course, I'd like to learn how to play it better myself. I think go may be one game where it's probably best to find someone else who's interested (and preferably already familiar with how to play), and learn by playing with them for a while until you get better. It can be disheartening to simply get slaughtered by AI all the time at a game you're just trying to learn the basics of.
Bob2004:
--- Quote from: shikitohno on February 21, 2012, 10:55:32 PM ---Go is a pretty tough game. I'd say it's a lot more difficult to play well than something like chess. It can be quite satisfying once you finally start managing to pull off good moves every once in a while. Of course, I'd like to learn how to play it better myself. I think go may be one game where it's probably best to find someone else who's interested (and preferably already familiar with how to play), and learn by playing with them for a while until you get better. It can be disheartening to simply get slaughtered by AI all the time at a game you're just trying to learn the basics of.
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Yeah, the advantage of playing against the AI is that if you make an enormously stupid move and lose a load of territory, you can press undo and try again, which is nice - it lets you experiment a bit, and see the result of different options. But GNU-Go has a tendency to get confused and crash if you do it too much, so playing with a friend would probably be better.
But my main problem with go is that you need to spend lots of time thinking, and frankly, I can't be arsed to do that. :P I much prefer games which require lots of strategy, but don't require lots of time spent thinking, so I think I'll be sticking to mahjong for now. I'm too lazy for go.
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