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Free Operating System

#1 LaSShawnn

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Posted 28 May 2009 - 12:03 AM

Anyone know of any free operating systems. I have a old comuter that I just want to use to play WOW on.

#2 Stofzuiger

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Posted 28 May 2009 - 08:49 AM

The whole idea of linux maybe? We have an whole forum-section filled with everything you want to know about it. You can find it here once there, feel free to ask anything you wish to know about Linux.

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#3 LaSShawnn

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Posted 28 May 2009 - 08:58 AM

Thank you and sorry for posting in the wrong place.

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Posted 26 June 2009 - 05:29 PM

dont know if linux will play WoW though. You prolly could, but its going to involve a lot of work, you cant just pop in the disc and play youd almost have to have some sort of virtualization software or write your own.

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Posted 26 June 2009 - 06:04 PM

Blizzard doesn't support playing WoW on Linux.

See Here: The Gospel of Minimum system requirements for World of Warcraft, according to Blizzard.

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#6 Arikan

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Posted 27 June 2009 - 10:12 AM

WoW works under Wine...

These instructions seem pretty straight-forward, but expect a slight performance hit, even on a good PC it won't be as fast as if you were running it under Windows,

I'd recommend ReactOS, if it wasn't so buggy...