Linux Gaming: Warcraft 3 (with WINE) on Ubuntu

[DecadenceLar]

И Линукс И Варкрафт вещи хорошие. Но о чем вообще этот ролик?

[TheBenjiAk]

@DecadenceLar не трудно догадаться о чем он, о запуске warcraft 3 на убунте :) о том как работает, етс.

[Falador321]

i have ubuntu 11.04 and for some reason i cant get it on full screen, it just messes up

[pidromonz]

have you tried dota? how does it work?

[valsotto27]

can you use garena on linux too?

[upallhours9]

As an Ubuntu user, this is Awesome WoW works like this!

[DaweyYT]

I absolutely agree. Ubuntu is a great starting point in Linux, and I have used more advanced distros like Arch linux and Gentoo but I usually switch back to Ubuntu after a while because of a very big repository that is well-updated and I like the start design (with Pulseaudio etc).

[TheBagelBrotherz]

Idk if I should switch from vista to ubuntu. Ubuntu looks really easy to use but a lot of games and programs will not work without this wine thing. So I have a few questions, Can I run pretty much any game I want? Also, is wine easy to use? Or is it extremely hard to configure? And, can I take some of my files from vista that are already installed and import them to linux?

[Syckful]

Wine works with most windows apps Games only a few all the new games that just came out arent gonna work wow ine easy to to configure depending on the app you gonna install

[superpenguin4500]

It really depends on the program, but you don't have to switch completely. You could do a dual-boot (have both OS's on one machine) and see if you like it or not.

[mynameisreggiexp]

@TheBagelBrotherz or windows 7! lol

[Qkumber1]

@TheBagelBrotherz Mostly, and easy

[DaweyYT]

Yes. I just prefer to play it in windowed mode. :)

[dee634]

does the mouse get caught around the edges in windowed mode like it's supposed to? or does the coursor extend beyond the game window?

know what i mean? lol

[abcharri]

vouch at blazeboy84

i'd like to know that, too ;D

[DaweyYT]

Check my answer to blazeboy84. : )

[abcharri]

Thanks for your answer, I am mostly interested in that wallpaper. I will look for that at gnome-look :D

[DaweyYT]

I found the wallpaper! Search "morning 1680" on Google and you will find it on the first page. Can't post a link in comments due to spam filters.

[abcharri]

Thank you very much, thats a really nice one. Now I'll look for a grey theme and then I will be happy :D

[DaweyYT]

NP. :)

[Knightsauce]

hey can u go online??/

[blazeboy84]

Hey... can you tell me how you made your desktop look like the way it did... it looks so sexy lol

[DaweyYT]

I found some nice GTK2+ and Metacity themes at Gnome-look. I don't remember right now what the themes are called, since I removed them and got some other nice look.

[Hoobes1]

how do you get it to run properly on linux?

[DaweyYT]

You can find instructions at appdb[dot]winehq[dot]org. Have you installed Wine?

[Hoobes1]

yeah, i installed wine already

[DaweyYT]

Okey, the easiest way is to install PlayOnLinux (just search on Google) and install Warcraft III and Frozen Throne with it. It's a very good Frontend for Wine with many premade installation scripts! :)

[Hoobes1]

ok, i've also got playonlinux!! =)

[killguta]

Another game playable on Linux thanks to WINE!

[DaweyYT]

Yes, it's a quite big list of games that Wine handles! And it grows bigger and bigger for each day. :)

[SamueltehG33k]

great game and great OS :D

[DaweyYT]

Yup.