The install is fresh and there is still a Windows installation on the hard drive, but – as you can read on my WoW blog – I am back to using Linux at home. I needed a re-install of Windows and ended up downloading Ubuntu.
I had been putting off installing Windows forever – once I decided to give Linux gaming a chance it took me one day to motivate myself and it paid off: installing Ubuntu has become trivial. I was very impressed with the ease of everything. Gone are the days of cryptic installers where you have to be an expert for hardware and software specifics to get a nice system running.
The most impressive is that booting the Live CD (aka USB drive in my case) is quick and easy and then you just have to click the “Install” button and while you watch the Installer do it’s thing you can surf the web. I had assumed the browser was only for show but when I started it and entered the guild’s forum url … I started laughing, because it isn’t for show.
I have already solved several of the remaining “problems” I had with my gaming keyboard and the games. Fun – windows-less – times ahead!
Amazon is too fast. The game was ordered and only hours later we found out that it is one of the games that infects your computer with the malware that is SecuROM. By that time it was already sent out and we could not cancel the order anymore. On Amazon.de and Amazon.com the game is getting tons of 1-star reviews because of this. As I write the number of negative reviews nears the 2k mark on Amazon.com.
While I think that the negative reviews are much better than not buying a game, I am not willing to have a DRM-Rootkit on my computer. Thanks no. I’ve always been a paying customer for all you DRM industries out there. This game I am returning. It wouldn’t be so bad if it was just some DRM but SecuROM is really just too much.
I was once of the opinion that drama was typical of my social adventuring in World of Warcraft guilds.
I was naive to think it wouldn’t happen elsewhere. I am noticing that writing emails or answering questions is taking longer and longer. Only this time … I am one of the people involved in the discussions and not the neutral referee or moderator .. or so someone noticed today :P
Well don’t feed the trolls they say.
But WoW is only a game and as such expendable. It is not so with some other things.
DSA spielst, wenn Du sowas von dir gibst:
“Die in Hoffenheim werden jetzt sicher alle reich durch den Verkauf von Paraphernalia … ”
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“wollte sagen Fanartikel.”
So Saturday my new display arrived:
I am now running my gaming machine with a 24″ and a 19″ display. At work I have a single 17″ :(
My desk at home is a bit too small.
It takes some getting used to. I have so much screen space now that I don’t want to max out my browser window anymore because nearly all websites look pretty strange.
Tabula Rasa has an open beta out.
Many mmos coming out next year, will there be one to end the reign of WoW? (via Tobold)
My bet is on WAR. What I know? It will dent our guild membership, unless we make the jump and try it together. Not that I care overly much. My guild membership consists of reading and posting in the forum and logging on for an hour a week.
I think WAR is hyped quite a bit though and playing NWN2 I noticed how good WOW is.
Morgens fahre ich durch die Siedlerstrasse zur Arbeit (die Batterstrasse ist auch hier um die Ecke), auf der Arbeit kriege ich dann den ganzen Tag Musik von diversen Computerspielesoundtracks per Webradio vorgespielt (inklusive “Boss”-feature beim Onlinestellen), wenn ich heimkomme sehe ich 2 Spielkonsolen und 2 PCs und stapelweise Spiele für beides. Daneben stehen die Brettspiele und nebenan bricht das Regal unter den Rollenspielsachen beinahe zusammen. Nicht zu vergessen die vielen Links auf diverse Surfablenkungsspielereien, die in meinen Bookmarksammlungen rumgeistern und die vor Jahren in die Rente geschickten Magic(tm) Karten.
Ich kann gar nichts dafür, es verfolgt mich! Nur um mal die Berechtigung für diese Kategorie klarzustellen.
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