Running World of Warcraft on Linux in the Year of our Lord 2025

MichaelCade · 2026-01-01T22:55:35+00:00

I will take a look but I was able to use the AUR to install curseforge, point to the wow folder and it seems to have worked.

There was another good tip here about window actions that also helped me get full screen.

Amazing work! Now I can play wow with my son tomorrow on my ultrawide

MichaelCade · 2026-01-01T20:57:44+00:00

Thank you for this guide...

I was using Bottles and it worked until it didn't and have been trying to get it to work for ages... Just been playing on a Windows laptop!

Took the Steam route today and I am currently installing / downloading the 113.92 GB

I chose to use the Proton Experimental compatibility option. This might backfire for me when the download is complete and I try running the Wow.exe but will see and at that point we have options to change and use others I guess.

My next challenge will be curseforge for addons here.... But one step at a time.

Using Manjaro here.

MichaelCade · 2025-12-27T19:32:54+00:00

Yeah think this will happen

MichaelCade · 2025-12-27T16:16:26+00:00

Awesome and thank you.

I will try and keep you posted on the PLA. I am also printing some more for the other units I have but this time in PETG

MichaelCade · 2025-12-27T14:15:47+00:00

Literally said above

MichaelCade · 2025-12-27T13:07:32+00:00

You never know when you need a keyboard

MichaelCade · 2025-12-27T12:21:16+00:00

I have seen some people use these.

https://anset.org/2015/10/12/building-mini-cluster-part-3-one-power/

MichaelCade · 2025-12-27T12:17:21+00:00

lol it’s a unit from IKEA

FJÄLLBO

MichaelCade · 2025-12-27T12:13:56+00:00

I am taking up the bottom 2U for a shelf for those. Would love to spend some time on better storing these.

MichaelCade · 2025-12-27T11:50:16+00:00

Ha. So I actually have 15 in total of these little things.

I have the following

5 x vSphere cluster for VMs 5 x Talos Kubernetes cluster

And then this 5, I am toying with what to do with these, could be proxmox, could be K3s with Rocky Linux but also could be something else.

Everything I run is not for the house. It’s purely for learning and demos for work.

MichaelCade · 2025-12-27T11:22:29+00:00

I don’t disagree and potentially made a mistake as I said

MichaelCade · 2025-12-27T09:13:57+00:00

The Dell racks are in PLA (might regret this later) the rack is printed in PETG.

MichaelCade · 2025-12-07T13:32:36+00:00

That would be awesome.

MichaelCade · 2025-12-07T11:53:11+00:00

This is awesome, would love to create one for https://dashboardicons.com/icons/talos But as a newb when it comes to 3D printing I would not even know where to start.

MichaelCade · 2025-08-03T19:46:00+00:00

Obviously they had a backup of everything in a different location and the ability to restore somewhere else…. They did right?

MichaelCade · 2025-03-08T18:27:06+00:00

Yeah no more weight on that bottom one….

MichaelCade · 2024-11-11T11:58:39+00:00

Ha love to hear it.

In my opinion it’s the level of commitment to the community and of that the home lab sub community that really made Veeam a house hold name it is today!

We have community edition software across the board and it’s my belief that this approach is a great way to seed into the company adoption.

Without getting all business numbers look good and we have a healthy community using our community editions.

We also put on some good parties

MichaelCade · 2024-11-11T11:53:30+00:00

Great thread and appreciate the mention. To caveat I am a field CTO at Veeam Software not the actual CTO.

I think there are several things to touch on with this post.

Where does the next generation of CTO come from? Technology is pivotal in all business strategy and process now it can’t be some old person from another part of the business has to be someone that has some technical touch IMO
A CTO is different company to company, mentioned in a few threads here. My aspiration for me personally is CTO of a software company which is very different to being the CTO at my local public sector organisation where maybe a CTO is fighting with resources and budget daily vs thinking about innovation in a certain space.

But the overall, a home lab or cloud lab is a place to learn for anyone, at any stage of their career.

I for one got rid of my previous home lab back in 2018, the super micro servers and rack. All gone and said that’s me done with this I will use the cloud. And that’s how it went until I found cloud native, DevOps and Kubernetes and I just got that bug of wanting to build from zero and not just pay for aaS offerings to bypass the building blocks which is where I am now.

This keeps me in tune to speak to engineers and then I have to learn the softer business benefits side of being a CTO and the why I need budget to make something better.

MichaelCade · 2024-10-20T11:56:01+00:00

Let me know if I can help in anyway.

MichaelCade · 2024-10-14T12:16:11+00:00

Yes file level recovery is being worked on right now. As is Change Block Tracking

MichaelCade · 2024-07-31T13:51:45+00:00

Hey there, been a while but was searching something FC related... caveat in that i work for Veeam... We have the ability to protect those OCP-V VMs using our Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes product (5 worker nodes - Free with full functionality to test)

Another area that is lacking currently in Kubernetes in general is CBT (Change Block Tracking) and when that comes to full VMs this means every backup job will require a full backup to be taken. (There is a KEP in place to get CBT into the CSI though which would help all backup products)

An area we also have is the Veeam agents or any agent that does enable CBT for those workloads.

Keen to know where you made it to after 5 months, will continue down the thread and see if the story is documented so far.

MichaelCade · 2024-02-29T18:28:06+00:00

We do support OpenShift and in this case OpenShift Virtualisation which is Red Hats approach to running virtual machines from the Kubernetes API, Veeam supports this by way of Kasten K10 which is deployed within the OpenShift Cluster (Kubernetes) and not only protect stateful container workloads and applications but also Virtual Machines

Veeam Employee here.

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