What OS would be best for playing games?

i had xp worked great for most games but f'ed that up by trying to dual boot (partition mess up) so i had to get win7 ultimate from a torrent

so what OS would be best for playing games on a D250
ones im considering:

ubuntu netbook edition 10.04 or any other easy to use type of linux
would love to get xp again but not sure how so if anyone can help me please do had no luck with torrents
just stay with win7

i dont like using torrents to get a OS but im broke and cant afford a new one heck if i had the money i wouldnt be using a netbook for gaming

 

So as you said, you have a few choices.
XP, 7, and Linux.

Ubuntu wouldn't be that bad of a choice, pretty much all the games listed in the repository would at least be playable. (can only think of a couple that would be too 3d intensive.)

The choice between XP and 7 isn't that hard, any game that will play on a netbook would either be old enough, or require low enough resources that the little bit of resources being used by 7 would be negligible. So stick with 7. Any game before 2000-2003 should be just fine to play.

Windows has a bigger list of games it can play, but ubuntu has a nice interface and makes it really easy to get games that will play (for free).

 

While I can appreciate your economic situation, it doesn't justify stealing software, especially when there are fee alternatives available! You can't buy a cheap car and then steal the gas to make it run just because you can't afford it! You can purchase W7 oem from newegg for about US100$, that's at most a couple of weekends of odd jobs. Soon you will be out of college and in the real world, and you won't be happy about people stealing from you!

Netbooks are not made for gaming, and have no graphics card upgrade options. There are tons of older games that work well on a netbook, anything pre 2004 for sure, and some later games as well, but that's pretty much the limit.

 

yeah your right stealing is stealing even if you have a good reason ill probably end up going with ubuntu then i mostly play free mmo and shooters like sudden attack and wolf team to bad wine says they have a garbage rating http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=10805
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=19213
also dont underesimate the power of a netbook ive played fear and spore and oblivion (using oldblivion) on mine with no slowdowns on lowest settings