Will there ever be a fully supported Linux version of wow?

No but it requires new “features”. I suspect the NSA and other alphabet agencies directly requested this “feature”.

“Microsoft has unveiled a new line of Copilot+ PCs priced at $999+ that will start shipping on June 18 from a range of manufacturers – and has run into a firestorm over their “Recall” function, which screenshots everything users do, every two seconds and stores it for three months.”

It’s an inevitable biproduct of future feature creep. Everything is way heavier performance wise than it was 10 years ago and 10 years before that and 10 years before that.

Except that the new feature in question is mainly the TPM 2.0 chip. I don’t need to “securely store my login information on my machine” via a security chip on the motherboard. This along with “secure boot”.

Now, are these potentially good things? Sure. But why are they REQUIRED? Partly because MS is trying to force folks to use bitlocker on the drive by default, which they if I remember right were just recently caught turning on my default for installs and upgrades. Naughty naughty.

With secure boot, the notion is to restrict how you boot your computer to only “trusted” components that have been “signed” by the MB MFG. While again, potentially great technology, people should not be FORCED to throw away their old computers and buy new ones because of this.

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Yeah no kidding. I also was surprised how easily I got it to run in linux. I quit wow back in wrath and had since switched to linux on my home pcs. Someone wanted me to start playing again in the middle of BFA, and I told them if I could get it running under linux I would play again (I’m certainly never installing windows my home pcs again). I think it took less than an hour (with zero wine experience, though many years of linux experience) to install using Lutris and get it running.

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I think they would just need to build one static compiled ELF 64 bit binary that can read all the other data/texture files.