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Yes ! It’s very well possible to run Windows games on Linux these days.

There is one downside to this good news : Not all games run as well as some do and some don’t even run at all. That said, there are 2 games I like to play at the moment, being World of Warcraft and EVE. Both quite different and both quite Windows.

Now EVE actually has Linux support, being that the game is able to be ran with something called CEDEGA. Well, I looked up on CEDEGA, and it’s a WINE spinoff that became closed source and you have to pay a subscription fee for it. That’s not so bad if the support of the software is great and it runs anything you want. Truth is, that is not the case and there is many disgruntled less-technical users out there that would be happy to get rid of CEDEGA and switch to the free, opensource solution for it, WINE. There are even (multiple) stories of CEDEGA not responding at all to support requests and only getting into action when said subscriber cancelled his subscription. That was it for me, no way am I going to pay for a shitty service using a software package that has it’s roots ‘loaned’ from an opensource project.

So, obviously, with users experience with CEDEGA in mind, and seeming WINE is also the harder path of choice, I naturally chose to run my 2 favorites with WINE and see how far i can go with it.

By the end of this blogline i hope I will have provided you with enough knowledge to run your games under Linux and enjoy getting it there as much as I did. Read more

Hi there.

Lately I have made the transition from Windows to Linux, meaning my reasons to leave Windows became numerous enough to try my luck with something else, and of course, Linux being as appealing as it is, it became my choice. The Ubuntu distribution to be exact because it offered the smallest download and looked the easiest to begin with.

I have tried many different flavors of Linux before in the past 15 years, and up to now, none of them quite cut it for me, but it seems Ubuntu looks promising enough (or dumbed down enough) to look usable and provide a reasonably clean ride to the linux world as a former windows user.

The main reason why I kicked Windows off my disks ? Well. It’s not that Windows isn’t a good OS, it’s just that I got fed up with it for a long time now and it was time to try something different. Let’s just leave it at that.

So, when you are ready, come along for my joyride with tux on my side. This blog will cover anything i ran into, enjoyed, hated etc and maybe you too are ready to make the switch at some point.