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Hello im new in this Community, i liked Ubuntu OS but i don't know if Ubuntu support My Hardware is a HP Pavilion dv4-4075la entertainment PC and this is his Hardware.

This are the specs of my pc

i want to play games like Team fortress 2, Sims 3 (i know i need to use virtual box or Playonlinux) my computer actually have Windows 7 Home basic and runs those games at medium high, i dont want to have lag on those games. Another thing, i want to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my PC:D

And sorry for my bad english i'm a noob in the english.Greeting!

Jorge Castro
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First of all, Linux is not made to be a gaming platform, don't be surprised if you have lags. maybe they will work perfectly, maybe not.

I have an hp myself, very similar to you, more powerful 8gb ddr3. I hope Linux works on your machine, I'll talk about what I know. On my PC:

  • I had problems with Wifi drivers.
  • On ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I had to set nomodeset to make unity work. Newer versions never worked no matter what I do.
  • Suspend and Log out mode did not work because of a graphic card issue, the screen goes black forever, I had to force shut down using the power button.

I had these problems, or at least one of them with every Linux distro I used: Archbang, Manjaro, Crunchbang, Linux Mint (Mate and Cinnamon), Linux Mint debian, Fuduntu, Ubuntu. I hope I didn't forget a distro :)

However, now I'm on Xubuntu 13.10 (The latest version) and it works like a charm out of the box on my PC. Xfce is working perfectly, and for some reason I am not experiencing any errors whatsoever. Besides Xfce is lighter than unity, giving you more recourses to play. And in my personal opinion Xfce is much more beautiful that unity.

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Lynob
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It is hard to tell from the amount of information give, but yes, the computer should work with Ubuntu 12.04.

Installation instructions can be found here.

For Team Fortress 2, there is a old question here that might help:
Is there a way to get Team Fortress 2 working?

You can find what works on PlayOnLinux here.

As bodhi.zazen says, just try the Live Disk and find out.
You can find out more about what it is here.

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