Can I get games / WINE working on Trisquel?
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Thinking of moving from Mint Cinammon to Trisquel, is it possible to get World of Warcraft working by installing Wine?
We won't assist you in running proprietary software of any kind on this forum, it would violate our Community Guidelines.
While WINE is free/libre software (LGPLv2), World of Warcraft is not.
The answer to your question is: probably. Wine in Trisquel is as up-to-date as Ubuntu 14.04. Of course, though, as Calinou said, you won't be helped with that here, and most of us would strongly recommend you not run proprietary software on your system. Libre games don't tend to be as advanced or as intricate as proprietary games, but they do exist. For MMORPGs, Ryzom is the most obvious possibility, though there's also The Mana World and other games that use the Mana engine (see ManaPlus).
ok thanks
All that being said, I think there is a project called PlayOnLinux that is kinda like "wine for games". Check it out, I remember in my earlier days of Linux world, that I wanted to play some games and discovered that project, it seemed to have improved support for commercial games.
Dunno if those improvements made it back to wine or not...
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Can someone confirm if PlayOnLinux is actually free software?
Because it seems to me that it recommends non-free software.
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from memory, PlayOnLinux is free software (same as WINE) and it even supports only the installation of the game if you have the original CD (it won't work with cracks or something like that).
Now, just like WINE is basically a tool to run windows software in linux, PlayOnLinux does the same with games... Should we give up on WINE too? Dunno...
PlayOnLinux isn't an alternative to Wine, it's a front-end for Wine that's supposed to make running certain well-known Windows programs easier. I never looked deeply into it because I found it to be confusing and not helpful, but my understanding is it has some sort of database of what settings are best for which programs, and some kind of menu to launch programs with those settings.
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That's correct Onpon. A front-end for Wine that adds nothing to it. I installed and used both for few months when I first switched to GNU. I remember I ended using standard Wine, because POL did nothing useful at all.
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