Hello all,
I went looking for a way to build a system for a friend that did not have M$'s grubby fingers in her data and run World of Warcraft for her. SparkyLinux was recommended as a great platform for running games so I've installed it on an AMD 64 platform i5 system for her. It's running flawlessly so far and I may install it on an older laptop of my own to work with as well.
However I may need your help getting WoW to install. Thanks Sparkers.
I may also try using Inkscape or Gimp to create bead patterns for my bead loom work.
Older laptop. If 2 gb or less of memory, there is probably no performance loss in going to 32 bit.
Wine and wines 32 bit binaries versus 64 bit binaries were a real pain in the past. I do not know the present. Hopefully the wine enthusiasts here will post about the present state of 32 versus 64 bit co-existence. It is supposed to have improved greatly in the last few years.
I have not used inkscape. Gimp does have a bit of a learning curve, less if you are adept with photoshop. With wine you can use some of the older Corel image manipulation, either W#$ or (or possbily their linux but probably not). Less learning curve.
The other factor is - are you on Sparky5 or Sparky4. If you are new, 4 has less hiccups, it is stable. You can easily convert to 5 later - possibly when Buster (Debian Testing which Sparky 5 uses as a base) enters the "freeze" process. That might happen in a few months.
Thanks for the reply. :)
I have posted the errors I'm getting from Winetricks as it does not want to play nicely with 32-bit programs at all. I do have the GameOver edition installed on the main system.
The laptop has 6 mbs of memory so I do not think I will have a problem with it.