Here another video from Madcow Studios. I like this one even more :D:

Well a few days into WoW on linux (Ubuntu-8 ) only, and I broke down and installed Windows XP on my machine. Here are two biggest reasons:

1. In linux, my mouse pointer is software rendered, since we are emulating a windows program in linux. This is fine and dandy when I was playing by my self, but when I grouped up with 25 other people to do Mag and Grul, I saw the challenge with the software rendering of my mouse. When we hit a lot of visual lag due to everyone casting spells, the mouse pointer would move in slow motion or I would sometimes completely lose it on the screen. I had to quickly relearn how to use hot keys. This I think was a decisive point to play WoW under windows, where even though frame rate might be low, mouse pointer would move smoothly anyways since it is hardware controlled.

2. The second piece in linux that did not work was Vent. When i was in WoW i could hear vent, but could not hit a key to speak. This i suspect could have been fixed if I did some more research.

To sum up my experience with WoW in linux, is that it has been very impressive. Besides the raid experience, soloing or grouping with a small group worked very well under linux. This may be due to the recent release of the Wine 1.0 version. About 6 months ago, wow was almost unplayable in Linux with decent graphical settings and resolution set to my native 20 inch flat panel. It is very good now, where when I solo I get almost the same performance I would get in Windows XP.

I think it is important to note that it would be great if Blizzard can release a native linux WoW client. Until then, WindowsXP for me as far as WoW. Although I will continue to mess around with Ubuntu linux and maybe find more tweaks for WoW in linux.

Well, my windows died on me, again!  I think it has something to do with the NFTS system.  When i try to access the windows partition under Linux the C: drive can't be read, and Linux says it is still "in use".

So since I don't really feel like reinstalling Windows XP, or buying the new Vista, I decided to go with Ubuntu 8 linux that I had installed on my machine earlier. My computer use is not that demanding as far as variety of things.  I play WoW and browse the Internet.  The net is easy on Linux.  How about WoW?

Well I'm happy to report that with the latest ubunty release (8) and the newest Wine emulator software WoW runs as well as it does under Windows.  So thus begins my biggest experiment of all - life without Windows!

If you are interested in running your WoW under Linux here is a great post on how to do it in Ubuntu (which is very easy to use once you learn where to pull a document or two from the net):

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft

By the way, I did not install WoW under linux.  I simply copied the whole WoW folder from windows into linux, that's the easier way.  Just edit your config file in WTF folder to openGL and you're good to go!

My life as a lock is full of ups and downs.  I though that  I finally found a cool guild I can raid with, only for the guild mates to be nonexistent online as soon as summer began.  :(

Out of boredom and desperation and also because I've been enjoying my fire specked mage I resepecked my warlock destro (20/0/41).  I have to say that the play style becomes very similar to a mage.  But it did not feel like a lock anymore.

From my personal opinion Warlocks have their biggest and unique strengths in the demonology and affliction trees.  Destruction is fun, but it's very short lived.  You cannot do tings with destro you can do with demonology or affliction, such as non stop grinding or taking down an elite mob by your self.  Plus if you want to blast things, you can always go mage, but only lock can have a unique DoTs and or pet/blast.  I'm back to affliction and I love it!