gaming on linux

[abarat]

hello, i am new at linux, and i was wonderig how i can play my games here, i have world of warcraft, the sims 3, i have programs like adobe mastercolection og painttool sai. is there anny way for me to instal them on linux?
best regards Eivor the newbie

[paed808]

You can use Wine to install windows programs in Linux. However, some programs might not work, but some might.
Open a terminal, and type these lines:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get install wine1.5

also playonlinux is helpful
http://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html

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wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | sudo apt-key add -

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sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_precise.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list

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sudo apt-get update

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sudo apt-get install playonlinux

The Sims 3 works well in Wine.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=16664

World of Warcraft works well in Wine.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=1922

Not sure if Adobe Mastercollection works, but I think CS2 works.
You can also use GIMP, the version 2.8 is a great alternative to photoshop.
GIMP 2.6 comes with LM 13, LM 14+ have GIMP 2.8
You can install GIMP 2.8 in LM 13 with this http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/gimp-284 ... buntu.html