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    Can I play games like Oblivion, COH, WOW using Mint?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by ScubaSteveO, Apr 18, 2009.

  1. ScubaSteveO

    ScubaSteveO Notebook Guru

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    Question, Im thinking about trying out Mint soon as my leap into Linux. Im wondering can you play games like Oblivion, COH, and WOW from Mint? Where is the best place to learn about this OS and its features. Or would it be better to use Ubuntu? :confused:
     
    ScubaSteveO, Apr 18, 2009
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  2. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    It doesn't matter what distribution you use because you'll have to use Wine either way; whatever applications you intend to run, you can check whether they are compatible here:

    http://appdb.winehq.org/
     
    Bog, Apr 18, 2009
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    you'll probably want to reboot into your 'gaming partition, ie. windows' to do that....some games will run ok though...check out winehq, cedega, etc.
     
    theZoid, Apr 18, 2009
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    Yeah, I would say just keep a smallish windows partition for games and boot into it when you want to play. That is what I do. You can fuss around with Wine in meantime and if you get everything to work, great!
     
    v1k1ng1001, Apr 18, 2009
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