Final Step away from Windoze (Need help) [easily SOLVED]

Question

Hi all,
I am preparing to take my final step away from windows OS, as the more I learn about Linux, the more I detest the majority of my hard drive being dedicated to a monopolus (if that's a word), closed monster. However there is one thing that I need, Starcraft and TF2 (team fortress 2). In an i686 installation this would be very easy... install wine. This will not work, as I am posting in Arch64, you must have guessed that I have a 64 bit system.
I know there are ways to get WINE working on Arch64, outlined here
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit
I was wondering whether you guys had any better ideas, so that I don't have to stuff my lean mean 64bit machine with 32bit libs
Thanks for the help.
Last edited by MattSmith (2009-04-02 07:41:33)

Answer 1

hmm...
Look at the wine homepage and see what they say. They usually have some really good pointers, per game. Just search the AppDB for the game you wanna play. simple as that!
You can also probably find something about FAM there. (I use gamin and it works fine)
Also know that if you and some friends sometimes put up LANs to play against eachother that can be cumbersome with a linux computer, due to the fact that normal home networks don't have ddns on their dhcp network. That sure have messed up things for me a couple of times. Windows has some default programs that kinda solves that, but it has failed for me aswell from time to time.
Dunno if there's more reasons yet why home networks sometimes fucks up since i'm still kinda in the proccess of learning. Just wanted to save you some trouble and let you know that having a windows partition (on say 20-30gb) can be a neat backup sometimes.