You could try getting involved with some existing game engines written for Linux/whatever else. Learn the engine basics then get into the guts of it. Check out Irrlicht Engine for one, last time I was there it seemed a friendly and helpful crowd on the forums.

But will it smell as good?

News like this just wants me want to batter someone with a violin.

Duck and cover

Blue sky of death?

Its only English that say Scots are tight - thats coz we dont give them the time of day :p

I think human eyes can only pick up something like 28-30fps. The reason higher fps is better is mainly for online gaming - at the end of each frame networking can be handled, the higher the fps the more often you can send data to the server. If your bullets register before someone elses its all good :)

Nice work Miss Marple but thats an epic fail if ever I've seen one :)

Eeeem did you read my original comment or have you replied to the wrong one?

...with all the comments about not using Windows. I know the original question was how to setup Windows but why pay to give yourself lots of extra work? If the person does not know much about computers there will be no learning curve from Windows to Linux, no need to make sure firewalls/AV are updated, even if you do use AV for Linux it can be updated silently and emails sent to the grand kid admin :)

My brother used windows for years and eventually after he phoned complaining about lots of pop up pr0n (Which he didnt mind at first....sigh) and finding over 400 occurrences of various virii I installed Ubuntu. There was the initial "Where's this/where's that" but once he got familiar with the main menu he was sorted. Now I hardly ever hear from him...

If it's a bit blowy would the camera not still shake? I imagine even putting all your body weight on it to stop it blowing away would still cause it to shake.