I've been an on-again / off-again Linux user for years. The things that have always prevented me from ever fully making the switch - and staying with it - are two applications that I use often enough that just never worked right under Linux.
These two bits of software are City of Heroes, and Adobe Fireworks. (Yes, Fireworks
).
Last night, I conquered! I hadn't tried to rung CoH or Fireworks in a long time, but I figured what the hell - I'll give it another shot. Here's what I did to get CoH working:
- Install latest Ubuntu via
wubi- Update system, enable restricted video drivers
- Open Terminal, cd to the CoH directory on the "host" machine, and ran
wine CoHUpdater.exe- Let it "start" to do the download, cancel, and the copy the CoH directory from the Windows partition to
~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/City of Heroes directory
- By now, there should be a CoH icon on your desktop. Run it! Once the updater verifies the checksums and manifests, you should be good to go!
I don't have anything amazing hardware-wise. Nvidia 8600GTS in a generic Dell desktop.
Other guides for running CoH on Linux all require to buy a Cedega subscription. I have no idea if it really makes a difference, since Cedega is just an implementation of Wine, but if you don't feel like shelling out for Cedega, give regular old Wine a shot and it might just work!
Oh - and I got my copy of Fireworks working too
I think it's time to take Windows off completely :O