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  • From: "david cherryholmes" <david.cherryholmes AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Thinking about a new PC and moving to Linux
  • Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 07:21:00 -0400

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Cristóbal Palmer
<cristobalpalmer AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Options, ordered from easiest to hardest to implement:
>
> Get Vmware, slap XP on top of Ubuntu. Get beefy-ish hardware and this
> might be faster than XP on the bare metal.
> Get Cedega
> Get wine, have fun trying to make things work.

A few things. AFAIK, the free version of vmware (which I assume
you're talking about) doesn't do 3D hardware acceleration. It's
awesome for many things, but gaming isn't one of them. Secondly, wine
is running WoW like butter. The link John provided walks you through
setting it up easily.

--
David Cherryholmes

The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.




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