which Linux distribution for WoW?

[Kuntantee]

Not true at all. I am on Arch (rolling release distro for people who don't know it) for almost 3 years and nothing broke yet, games are still working. If anything OP should avoid your advise.

Which games? Steam maintains its own libs, hardly relies on system. I am not sure what wine (or whatever they call it these days) does. Functional game is not an evidence against what I said. Broken may mean many things, from minor to major. Just because some program functions doesn't mean something hasn't been broken. When you become a superuser, like I am, and rely on certain configs working fine for development or other work, you see these things.

[Serpha]

Which games? Steam maintains its own libs, hardly relies on system. I am not sure what wine (or whatever they call it these days) does. Functional game is not an evidence against what I said. Broken may mean many things, from minor to major. Just because some program functions doesn't mean something hasn't been broken. When you become a superuser, like I am, and rely on certain configs working fine for development or other work, you see these things.

People have different needs, you may not need "bleeding edge" apps and libs but in gaming for example, steam has it's own wine alternative called proton, wine is being updated constantly. For AMD and Intel users, drivers are baked into kernel, so the more up to date it is, the better, unless there's a regression. Since OP had gaming in mind, kodemonkee is correct, update.
What distro do you use anyway?

[ldev]

How would MS buying blizzard help with it?
@ldev you don't really need MS Office on Linux, and the only reason people want it is for familiarity (laziness). You can make LibreOffice look almost like MS Office, and for Power Point, which is probably main reason LibreOffice Impress is very close.

Uh huh. And how does LibreOffice handle excel with macros? How does LibreOffice handle opening presentation from sharepoint and editing with two people? Uh huh. LibreOffice. Cool story.

[mrgreenthump]

Uh huh. And how does LibreOffice handle excel with macros? How does LibreOffice handle opening presentation from sharepoint and editing with two people? Uh huh. LibreOffice. Cool story.

LibreOffice has come a long way, but it's not at the level of Excel in the small things. I want to kill myself when doing macros on LibreOffice and there is no simple things like Unique() in LibreOffice Calc, which makes life a bit of a hell if you need an unique parameter and don't want to write a script for it. Bit of rage enducing some times. Other than that it's been quite fine for 3 years now since I switched from Excel to OpenOffice Calc.

[arcturusm]

If you're looking for an actual MS Office replacement LibreOffice is not the answer. SoftMaker Office (former: StarMaker Office) is much better. It's not free, though.

[Thes]

Uh huh. And how does LibreOffice handle excel with macros? How does LibreOffice handle opening presentation from sharepoint and editing with two people? Uh huh. LibreOffice. Cool story.

This is like when people recommend using GIMP over Photoshop...

[bloodykiller86]

This is like when people recommend using GIMP over Photoshop...

yeah lol i cant imagine working without Office...too damn important and ingrained in everything i do though office online has become pretty damn good imho. most of my work docs i barely need to open locally anymore

[Kuntantee]

People have different needs, you may not need "bleeding edge" apps and libs but in gaming for example, steam has it's own wine alternative called proton, wine is being updated constantly. For AMD and Intel users, drivers are baked into kernel, so the more up to date it is, the better, unless there's a regression. Since OP had gaming in mind, kodemonkee is correct, update.
What distro do you use anyway?

I use Debian. Debian is a server distro. They are very careful with updates but even that can cause problems. In contrast, Ubuntu is based on Debian experimental and is much worse.

[ldev]

This is like when people recommend using GIMP over Photoshop...

Yea, industrial printers requires assets in CMYK profile, Gimp doesn't support that - "gimp is as good as photoshop, people don't use it because UI is different, that's it".

Not to mention, people rarely use just Photoshop. Integration with Premiere or Adobe XD is also what sells Photoshop.

[CliveStandish]

I've been using Linux Mint for a couple years now. I prefer it! I have had the worst time with Nvidia like you said I got an AMD Radeon GPU instead, and now everything is MINT!

[ldev]

Bullshit. I have had freezes and slow FPS in WoW due to an outdated Linux kernel.

Bullshit. I've played WoW in WotLK on 2.6 kernel and it ran fine. Let's necro other threads!

[RobertMugabe]

Bullshit. I've played WoW in WotLK on 2.6 kernel and it ran fine. Let's necro other threads!

???

Of course WoW ran just fine 13-14 years ago with a 13-14 years old kernel on 13-14 years old hardware. Modern hardware however requires a modern kernel to run fully as expected and modern WoW does not run on DX9 and 32-bit anymore afaik.

[PixelFox]

Just a reminder that you can run Linux simultaneously next to Windows with full integration of storage and applications using the Windows System for Linux (WSL2).

Best of both worlds, especially if you're a gamer who really wants native Windows.

You now get pass through native video card access from Linux and Linux GUI apps run in Windows windows.

[Gormonioss]

I stumbled on this while looking into Linux gaming for myself. If you’re still thinking about it there are a few Linux options that work well with WoW.

[Huzzaa]

I stumbled on this while looking into Linux gaming for myself. If you’re still thinking about it there are a few Linux options that work well with WoW.

I don't get it, is this a question or a statement?

[Twdft]

I don't get it, is this a question or a statement?

It's a bot.

[Huzzaa]

It's a bot.

I suspected but then I thought, maybe not since a year old account and who knows, maybe some poor sod mixing something up.

[Stickiler]

Just a reminder that you can run Linux simultaneously next to Windows with full integration of storage and applications using the Windows System for Linux (WSL2).

Best of both worlds, especially if you're a gamer who really wants native Windows.

You now get pass through native video card access from Linux and Linux GUI apps run in Windows windows.

You can also do it the other way around(Which IMO is the better way to do it, because fuck Windows), where you can pass the GPU directly to a windows VM to use full acceleration capabilities and use windows just for playing games.

[Huzzaa]

You can also do it the other way around(Which IMO is the better way to do it, because fuck Windows), where you can pass the GPU directly to a windows VM to use full acceleration capabilities and use windows just for playing games.

Word!

I'm on gentoo.

Binbows is only good for running in a VM.

[TobyMicklaier45]

I stumbled on this while looking into Linux gaming for myself. If you’re still thinking about it there are a few Linux options that work well with WoW. Lutris is a popular choice because it makes the setup easier. For the distribution, I’d suggest Ubuntu or Pop!_OS, especially if you’re new to Linux—they’re stable and have good support. Fedora is also worth considering if you want something a bit newer and faster.
When I was figuring this out, I found it interesting how different Operating Systems handle gaming. There’s definitely some room to play around and get things just right for your setup.