A Linux User in a Windows World

So most of you know that I’m playing EVE-Online on my machine and have been doing that on my Linux since I moved over over a year ago now. And it has been interesting and more or less very good.

When moving over to the new machine i installed Wine version 0.9.58 as this version worked and had almost no bugs. I have been trying new versions on and off when they come out but so far I haven’t found a newer version that was OK and worked well. So I stayed on 0.9.58. I have the Premium Graphics working and I can run 2 clients at the same time without the machine being to tired.

I did lock the version with both the synaptic package manager (package >> lock version) to lock it for synaptic but I also had to do a dpkg command to lock the adept package manager:

echo wine hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections

This was necessary for me so that the automatic updater would NOT update wine, but it was complaining all the time that there was a new release out there.

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So the new version of eve is over us. Will this work on Linux and will my client survive? It always a nice question as running the official client before was impossible on my laptop and the only way to run it was via wine. It run perfectly, usually. But sometimes it broke during patches and it took some time to fix wine to get it to work.

So while the eve system was down I spent some time trying to sync over all data from my old laptop to the new one.

First thing was to get all the installed applications installed the same way on the new machine. I found some references out on the net on how to dump the installed applications on the old machine to a file and then use that to install the same applications on the new one. So i tried that and it almost worked. Not quite.

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So the weekend has been a very hot one in Sweden. The temperature has been over 30 degrees and thats very much by Swedish standards and when one is not quite prepared for it it gets very hot.

We have been moving from the house to the apartment for the last month and the only real thing left now is to finish off the garden so its in hand over state. And thats what we have been doing during the weekend.

But there has been small times when we haven’t moved or carried things. And I decided to test the wine and premium graphics to see if I could get it to work. From what I have read on the forum the wine version of EVE runs without any big problems.

So i copied all the .wine directory over form my old laptop and used that as a start – that way I also would retain my old setting in the EVE client and thats very useful.

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More work on the new laptop. As I got my new nvidia card to work and its looks OK so far as I can see it, I need to do some testing. I have been playing EVE-Online now for quite some time and on the old laptop I could not play the official client and had to run it via wine. That worked very well and I do want to continue doing that, but that will require some more install and transfer of data form the old laptop, so lets get the official one and do a quick test to see what the new graphics card can do.

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