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> @"jbrother.1340" said:

> How old is the T430 you are using? I can get these things dirt cheap and my current laptop is suck and plays it bad.

The xx30 series has been produced around 2012 I think. I actually have two of them, one of which has a quad core CPU (i7-3632QM) and other has stock i5-3320M. I also have an i5-3360M to test with, but there is not much difference between them. One of them has Coreboot flashed with Intel Management Engine disabled. I have a Full HD modification as well as the classic keyboard mod. It makes the most useful machine you can get today, in my opinion.

The game runs perfectly well on both machines, modded and stock.

> How much ram are you using, is it maxed out?

8GB. Theoretical maximum is 16GB as far as I know.

> What distro are you running on it? I am just curious.

I am currently using ArchLinux.

> @"ArmoredVehicle.2849" said:

> Today I gave a test run with Wine 3.3 + Staging + PBA, the performance was slower than the current build based on Wine 2.21.

I have tested _wine-2.21_ on both T430 and X230. Performance increase is very very noticeable. We are able to play PvP without the game freezing for a few seconds and we do not get average of 20fps anymore. My T430 can sit around 40-50fps (small fights) on minimal settings with native sampling at 1920x1080. Interestingly, lowering the resolution does not increase performance at all. Should I build and test the new version as well?

I will also use this thread to plug our guild for users of unix-like operating systems - _[unix] Penguins And The Like_.

I thought it would be nice if players had an active channel to ask for help with Guild Wars 2 on linux. If you wish to join, let me know and I will send you an invite.

I have to confirm that these patches do bring performance boosts.

It is noticeable on my T430 with an i5-3632QM and HD4000 at 1920x1080. Frame rate is much more stable and somewhat higher. I have only tested it in low-intensive areas now, but I will do more testing as time goes by. I will try it on an X230 as well.

> @"Zedek.8932" said:

> Haha, yes, this fairtytale again. I rather be a slave of a company that at least pays their programmers and that has a roadmap instead of a bunch of elitist hobby programmers not getting anything done. Due to the typical Linux/UNIX elitism amongst themselves, they tend to split into new groups of developers, resulting in programs for Linux (or any other GNU stuff) never going anywhere. Look at OpenOffice for example. Then it was LibreOffice, because of ORACLE, and for OSX I used NeoOffice. And all of those looked and felt like Office95. I just can't use an ugly pie chart as if it's from 1993 for a modern presentation. I rather pay for a real MS Office.

It appears you have no idea what you are talking about. So you do not like other operating systems because ... you do not like LibreOffice pie charts? The real beauty is that if you do not like something, you are free to change it. All major free software projects have a roadmap, including the kernel development. And since you want to compare Windows and Linux, you might want to read something about it, eg. the [article written by a Microsoft employee about Windows development](https://blog.rabimba.com/2013/05/a-microsoft-employees-rant-i-contribute.html "article written by a Microsoft employee about Windows development").

You choose to give all your personal information to Microsoft, we choose not to. We all have our own priorities, there is nothing wrong with that.

> You can't tell me that you can use "Linux to any power it actually has" with drivers named "v0.0.0.12.02.0 beta unstable" and such stuff that just hinders any really power being developed. Ubuntu would not boot up on certain CPUs with the internal graphic unit enabled, so even for booting up your Linux you have to Google and add parameters on your own. Do you really sell this as outstanding?

> I used Linux in the past, especially during the Netbook era. I also tried OSX in 2008 and Leopard was nice. But now I am here, rather a slave of Windows than a bunch o' freaks in Linux boards that are even more condescending than Asuras when you ask a question or the Gilded Cage of OSX.

You used an alternative operating system in ~2008, you did not like it and here you are now, in 2018, telling us how bad it is. Again, you have no idea what you are talking about. Driver and other issues have been eliminated since the time you used it. Calling Linux users "_a bunch o' freaks_" does not really prove your point either.

You are acting as if we wanted to you start using Linux. No, we would like our favourite game to be supported on our favourite operating system. Is that too much to ask? We do not care about you.

> @"Laila Lightness.8742" said:

> Why cant anet drop windows support and focus on linux

Now that is just silly.

> @"GreyWolf.8670" said:

> > @"fatihso.7258" said:

> > All I see in this forum is whining about a lot of work, less resources. If linux that sucky, how did Gaijin introduced a native linux client for War Thunder? Wasnt that also alot of work? Did they really need to make it happen?

>

> Never heard of War Thunder. Perhaps that's part of the reason?

I have never heard of a game, it must be bad...

Also, if you have never heard of the game and yet it has a Linux port, doesn't that really prove a game does not need your approval, nor a huge amount of players asking for it? Especially for a game like GW2, which already has native MAC support with the same graphics API Linux can use?

Just to let you know, I have created a guild for users of unix-like operating systems - _[unix] Penguins And The Like_

The aim is to gather (not only) Linux users to help each other with troubleshooting, share useful information or just to have a good time. I have a mumble server ready as well, for those who like to speak while playing. It is open for anybody really, but if you use Linux, BSD, Hurd, or anything Unix-like, it is a big bonus. All current members are from Europe.

If you wish to join, and I hope you do, let me know ingame :)

I am not sharing the mumble server address here, for obvious reasons. You can find it in MOTD after joining the guild.