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That's not quite what I meant. When I right click the drive itself, Windows says that it doesn't recognize the partition format (because it's not FAT32 or NTFS) and asks if I would like to format it. Ideally, I'd like to format 750GB of it into NTFS and give 250GB to any Linux distribution I use. That being said, I haven't gone past that at all. I didn't look at any options I might have for formatting, but I know other tools like Partition Magic may give me more options. That being said, if I decide to partition things, will it f*ck up my install? Do I need to defrag my HDD first, and how is that done in linux? Command terminal again I take it? And regarding the whole 'root' thing, I don't use it unless a command I run comes back at me and says "You need to be a root user to do this". But it's the one command I have memorized, anyway. lol

Thanks for the response, guys. I had a few Q's or general repsonses for you over the course of your reply DarthWound, so I thought I'd break them down. 1.) From what I Googled, you have to use the little Terminal thingy, and you use the 'yum' commands to get stuff installed. I have no idea where it's actually getting the software from. The software "finder" that Fedora comes with in my opinion is worthless. Search results of software that would peak my interest yeild nothing. YumExtender was an app I downloaded that seemed to help a little. It makes downloading software a bit easier than using the Terminal. I've grown up on .exe files and setup wizards since I was in my single digits age group, so while I have a few basic Windows Command Prompt comamnds memorized, I can't say I use the thing regularly, so coming to a distribution of Linux that relies so heavily on the terminal is a daunting task since I have to look up how to do everything on Google. Thank god it came with Firefox standard or I would have been really screwed. I've considered switching to Mint or Ubuntu since they both have app stores and are supposedly friendlier to newbies, but I'll give this one a shot for a little while. 2.) I'm using Windows 8, and while I haven't gone deeply into the HDD properties menu, I'm afraid Windows may try to format the whole drive to NTFS, thereby killing my Fedora install. Never heard of GParted before. Is it any good & what does it cost? Luckily Fedora is on a second hard drive, apart from my C:/ drive which I will unplug for safety when dealing with a re-format outside of Windows. I currently use my BIOS's boot menu (F12 key) to get into Fedora when I start up the PC. Regarding installing stuff, it's like I was saying in point #1; I never grew up using command prompts, and even if I did I don't exactly have a handbook here of the Linux YUM "language" and what it means. I'm sure with enough practice I'll have a basic understanding. The one command I have memorized so far is "su --login" to give yourself root access for certain installs. YUMExtender has helped me to install codecs for programs that support them. I did in fact download RPM fusion Free & Non-Free and that didn't help any of the media programs I had play MPEG4/AAC files. MP3's would play okay, but nothing else. Audacity and some associated plugins I found through YUMExtender did the trick though. Now I just have to learn how the program works (building a library) since it's not as intuitive as iTunes or Google Music. So far I've just been playing one track at a time since I haven't had much time to play with it. 3.) Did that (I think) didn't seem to work. But at least I have one player that does what I need. Now I'm curious about how to un-install software (my unnecessary media players), which I'll probably have to Google for. lol 4.) I've noticed some crackling of sound every now and then, especially if you play a Flash video while Audacity is playing an MPEG4/AAC file. That could be a lack of sound drivers, though. Who knows. Is "Pepper" built in or do I need to go install it using YUM somehow? 5.) Performance I'm not so concerned about since I don't plan on running games of any sort, but exactly how much energy are we talking about? I'm on a desktop so I'm not on a battery of any sort. Thanks for your reply.

And if so, what do you think of it? I just installed my first distribution of it successfully, attempting to dual boot it with Windows. I have to load it from the boot menu, but it works well enough for me since it won't be my main OS. I just wondered what some people on here thought of it. Any distribution of Linux, really. I chose Fedora, personally. I like it well enough so far, I just wish it had an 'App Store' like Ubuntu and Mint do. But from what I hear that may be coming in the near future. I ended up deciding to put another OS on my machine because of a few reasons; 1.) A backup OS in case my Windows install craps itself. 2.) More secure. 3.) More user control & customization. 4.) A new learning experience for me. I'm not disappointed, and the install wasn't too hard considering I've never done it before. I loaded it off of a USB flash drive I had laying around. I just couldn't get it to take 250GB of my 2nd HDD for whatever reason, so it took the whole 1TB. I'll see if I can change that with Partition Magic or something later on. The only real problem I have with Fedora is that installing stuff is kind of hard, and out of the box it's not compatible with anything, more or less. I had to try 4 different media players before I found one that supported MPEG4/AAC music formats (iTunes), and how to download the plugins for it. The one I'm using now is called 'Audacious'. Flash for Fedora exists, but from what I understand it's not the latest version, and Adobe may not be developing for Linux anymore, so some videos I might have to switch back to Windows for. I like the way it looks though, runs pretty quick, interface works a lot like MacOS without all the proprietary crap, and it's free. I didn't even have to install any hardware drivers, oddly enough. Not for sound, video, even my 3rd party wireless card. I was shocked. I'll see about posting some screen shots in the next day or so. For now, here are a few example screenshots:

With an emulator maybe if you have a good working knowledge of computers and don't mind running the risk of getting taken to court by Microsoft and/or Rockstar North. So short answer; no.

Anybody have clips of the chases from the 'Transporter' movie series? Those were done by the same dude who handled the chases in The French Connection and the Bourne series.

From what a lot of fans seem to think... *SPOILER* When the higher-ups in the mob put your character into the car at the end of the game and take you away, leaving your friend to be killed, the speculation is that you'll remain the same character in Mafia III, and I wouldn't imagine the time period would extend much further into the future (maybe the late 60's) since your character would get too old to see "action" like he did in his younger days. Hopefully they'll build a free roam mode into the core game, possibly multiplayer, and although I doubt they would, I'd like to see the police not shoot at you for going over the speed limit. I'd also like to not have to spend an hour losing them in a chase. It shouldn't be as tough as it is. Other than that though, great game. And it touches on WWII in the beginning, which I like.

I always make a Facebook post on June 6th 1944 asking my friends to remember the men who gave their lives for our freedom, and shaped the world that we have today. I chose this picture to upload this year.

If you turn the details down it will probably run, crappily. That card is garbage and the CPU isn't anything to write home about. I'd save up more money.

The iBuy if you can afford the SSD. FRAPS is going to kill your FPS if you're recording to the same hard drive you're reading from. Even with an SSD I dunno if things would be playable at high settings with any of those games. If you don't need to be portable, I'd highly suggest a desktop instead.

Modern day laptops that have hybrid graphics have a toggle switch. You should be able to find it in the nVidia control panel, or under some other settings panel somewhere. Consult your manual.

Hopefully he'll get put away for a while. GTA plus multiple felony hit and runs, felony evasion, DWI... Knowing our justice system though it will be a slap on the wrist. These guys are always back on the street way sooner than they should be.

I turned off comments on my videos for that reason. I got people asking 'what is this', 'what console is this for', 'is it for ps3', 'is it for xbox', 'how do you do this', etc. every single day, multiple times per day, and that's on top of all the anywhere between 2 to 20 pm's per day I got. A lot of people here (including myself) got here due to a lot of free time surfing around YouTube, but I'll be damned if I haven't noticed that many, many people can't use a simple search engine for the littlest things.

I thought I had posted my updated start screen, apparently I hadn't, so here it is now. I have more games and apps than that, those are just the ones I bothered to make tiles for. I'll probably boot up Photoshop on a rainy day some time in the future and make more. My traditional desktop is still the same as I posted before.

I don't follow any of your posts, but I'm guessing its the folder you highlighted since that program is a featured download right now.

Wrong forum, bud.

While I wouldn't call this an 'exclusive' community by any stretch of the imagination, it will only grow to a certain point. Most console users who asked about the mod on my YouTube videos can't afford a desktop PC and pretty much give up hope. So we'll probably dodge a bullet with the vast amount of screaming 12 year olds it would bring to this forum board and everyone else's TeamSpeak/Ventrilo/Mumble/Whatever servers. I know there are already people here who are playing GTA IV under age, and some of them are good people. But the way I see it; the more people we have on this forum board with high school diplomas, the better the forum conversations will go.

This is the 50 millionth topic with this exact same title/content. Stop making these.

My expression upon seeing this thread: Did you really have to post this? These topics never solve anything, they just start arguments.

Can't say I remember you, but welcome back nonetheless.

I don't get it, did someone insult your textures or something? Get over it, man. If someone says something truly offensive, report it. That's what the button is for. But otherwise, you're just going to have to learn to suck it up. Do us all a favor and don't post this kind of stuff, especially with that sign off you gave. You make people from Massachusetts like me and 'visible25' look bad.

In all likelihood, your laptop doesn't have it's own graphics card, which is probably causing this problem. Before anybody argues that the AMD laptops always have graphics cards, I'll remind them that the A10 is an 'APU', not a CPU. It has its own graphics core built in, but no actual dedicated memory. On occasion laptops will have both a dedicated Radeon card, and an APU, but it's rare, since it undermines the purpose of an APU and the whole reason AMD developed it.

When I hear the word goat, it now always makes me think of the G.O.A.T. exam in Fallout 3. lol In honor of that, enjoy this video of Deathclaw at your G.O.A.T exam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4QIUZl46c0

No it's not, and you keep your phone out even when being shot. I know where my go-to places on my in-game phone are. I can switch Sleep Mode on/off in under 2 seconds, a wanted down cheat would be no harder to activate.

If you want to make things cooperate with LCPDFR better while scripting, or have more control over what you do in general, use C#.