Ok, Now I can Switch To Linux
Some of you know that I was/am addicted to World of Warcraft. Over the past couple months, had been leaning towards a switch to Vista, however now my mind has changed.
I just finished watching a clip on Google Video about a user of Ubuntu who was playing World of Warcraft, doing some code work, surfing the web, and looking for files on his computer. Now, here comes the cool part. He had his work spread out on four separate desktops, visualized in a 3-d cube onscreen. I am sure that this took some work to set this up, but I think I will put it on my technological to do list. The newest version of the Linux that I use is coming out on April 19, and Corey told me something about the software that this guy used coming prepackaged with the release. I am such a geek…
Corey Farwell
March 25th 2007 - 1:53am
i just tested my laptop with a non ati-based card, and compiz worked off the bat, it’s pretty nice.
Arth
July 27th 2007 - 8:30am
It is fairly easy to accomplish. Established distros like Ubuntu or Fedora have their recently releases Beryl ready, so you get the desktop effects right after you get your graphics installed, and you can get Wine installed and WoW will be up and running in no time. D3D games like WoW runs slow and rather buggy last time I did it.
Chris
July 28th 2007 - 6:11pm
Actually, you can often obtain higher frame rates in WoW on linux.
Helps if you have drivers of course =D
http://winehq.com
bob
July 30th 2007 - 3:31am
lol.
the funny thing is anyone who has been using linux for like the past four years (at least) would not be jaw dropped at this concept, considering suse has been demoing 3d cubes since 2003ish, maybe sooner. our window managers have pretty much always been on the front line of cool since you have more options than just what side of the screen to put a task bar.
Jen
July 31st 2007 - 8:30pm
I’ve had pretty good results with WoW in Linux myself, via Cedega. Framerates are near identical to Windows, without all the Microsoft garbage, crashing spyware etc etc. Plus the load times are insanely fast vs Windows. Haven’t tried it in Wine yet however.
And Beryl (and recently upgraded to Compiz Fusion) is an amazing desktop.. I can’t even use Windows anymore, it feels so.. primitive. I tried Vista for all of maybe an hour; an amazing pile of suck. If you need to stay with Windows, stick with XP.
Granted, not everything runs in Linux (yet), but its making tremendous improvements. I’ve been Windows free for over a year and haven’t regretted it yet.