Running World Of Warcraft under Linux: Installation

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 29, 2010

[ Thanks to Rebecca for this link.
]

“Some time ago, I promised you a tutorial about
installing and running World Of Warcraft on the Linux operating
system. Well, here goes.

“A few caveats before we get our collective geek on: first of
all, this is going to be a long post. Certainly, it’ll be longer
than we normally give you here at the Melting Pot. It’ll also have
a lot of images within it. Again, this isn’t something we’ve done a
lot of, so please comment if it’s all messed up for you and I’ll
try to fix (particularly people reading via RSS). Finally, this
article is only going to cover installation. I’ll do a follow-up
article about tweaks and customisation, and probably another
article of problem-solving and collective trouble-shooting.

“Right then. Having used up a third of my usual word count
already simply by telling you that I’m going to use more words than
I usually do, let’s get started.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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