Linux has driven me to buy Windows Vista

[JoeHill]

Madison Kelly wrote: 

> 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.

Last time I tried WoW under Wine it was perfect, I had no issues at all.

Installing was just like 'apt-get build-dep wine, configure, make, make
install'. That's it. Although on mine I did 'configure --prefix=/usr'.

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J
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