Playing with Debian

Friday, 4th July 2008 at 12:14am

You can run World of Warcraft from Linux... so long as your computer can handle it

Whilst I use Debian as my server's OS, I'm still very firmly rooted into Windows XP for my laptop. Recently though I decided to make the switch! I downloaded Debian and installed it fine. The only problem was that I couldn't find the right driver for my wireless card... But I didn't give in! I decided to try out Ubuntu, which comes with a tonne of most common drivers which did have my wireless driver with it.

So there I was actually using Linux as an operating system but I ran into one hiccup... World Of Warcraft was far too slow... I knew I had to emulate it through Wine and it did work! It was fully playable and I found zero errors, just that my laptop doesn't seem to be able to handle running it.

My laptop is far from godly, and it's currently having graphics problems so you'll probably find that you'll run it just fine. You can just follow a tutorial, over at WoWWiki on how to use Wine to run WoW.

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