Linux has driven me to buy Windows Vista

[Madison Kelly]

JoeHill wrote:
> Madison Kelly wrote: 
> 
>> Michael Lauzon wrote:
>>> On 05/01/2009, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:  
>>>> Really? Cool. How's the performance generally?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Madi  
>>> I have no idea, I play all games on Windows...don't currently have
>>> anything Linux however I am thinking of building my own file server
>>> and running Linux on it; if I can get some of the things I need for
>>> the system I found in the hallway of my building as it needs a
>>> vidcard, ram, HDD, DVD, and wiring...someone left the Pentium D & HSF
>>> in it but I don't know if it POSTs -- as I need the aforementioned
>>> items..  
>> I'm going to install Ubuntu on the machine this week, I will have to 
>> retry the EvE client and I'll try WoW on Cedega (they have a free 
>> trial?). If they work then Yup, I wasted my money. :P
> 
> WoW and almost anything else should work very well under Wine. I can run WoW
> and even Spore, though Spore being relatively new it has some minor graphical
> issues.
> 
> Building and installing the latest Wine is so simple on a Debian system a total
> beginner could do it.
> 
> Cedega has never ever worked properly for me, much like any other proprietary
> crap I've tried.

Huh, have you tried WoW on Wine? I'll give this a shot either way. Last 
I played with Wine was some time ago and I was quite unimpressed. I 
guess it has improved much since then.

Madi
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