What's your background?

It's a scan of a World Map created in 1808. I'm a bit of a map dork, so I have a few dozen old maps that I rotate through.

There's a huge collection of old maps available on the internet at www.davidrumsey.com. You can download high resolution scans of them. I have a 36"x90" plot of this one on my wall in my office at home.

My desktop. Antergos with Cinnamon (both panels are on autohide).

It's pretty much a fresh install (like, right before GOG's Linux launch, conveniently) and I've spent more time than I cared to faffing about trying to find themes to my liking (in other words, something bloody consistent and not partially broken). I think I'm likely to take one of the window manager themes I've downloaded from Gnome-Look and just rework it into something I can bear. :|

Still unimpressed even if that was the first time you clicked it. ;)

Then you're making progress if you died on a different event. Especially, if it was a different death.
I know. I was being sarcastic.

Poisoned and then stabbed.

I've died a few more times since then too.

And it actually was the first time I had run it.

Cheers!

Finally removed the training wheels (Virtual Machine) and set up my Linux OS on a real hard drive, I like to manually install my packages, drivers and apps so it's a lot of work "and slight headaches", but on the other hand it has also been a very pleasant experience. On the way I learned a lot and it reminded me how fun using a terminal/prompt was back in the old 486 days. I don't think I'll be touching Windows again anytime soon.

A new desktop screenie to celebrate. :D

Congratulations! By the way, do you have a good experience with GW2 in Wine? When I tried it (some long time ago) it was simply horrible and close to unplayable performance wise.

Lol. No screenshot hotkey on Lubuntu. Ah well.

It runs *ok* but not the best, in cities like Divinity's Reach goes down to 20-25 fps, explorable areas hold fairly well 30-40fps. Don't expect any good fps in crowded events though.

I'm running it on an i5 CPU with a Geforce GTX 760, Wine v1.7.22 if it's any help. The Wine version also helps, when I ran v1.6.2 it was much worse so make sure to update that too. Also since the game is CPU bound, having a fast processor may help.

I see, thanks. Are you using Wine with CSMT?

By "crowded events" you mean when the world bosses pull in a full-on zerg? Because those events make my GTX 690 weep on Windows. O________O

I've tried GW2 using PlayOnLinux myself for all of fifteen minutes before I realised that the somewhat naff framerate I was getting in Vigil Keep alone (when Lion's Arch got blown up a few months back) made me dread the framerates I'd get if I'd even stepped a centimetre toward a world boss event. :|

No sorry, I had to google it to know what you meant by CSMT. Thanks for bringing it up however, I see that on it's homepage there's even a Wine build just for GW2.

TBH I don't play the game much anymore but I'll check the CSMT when I get a chance. I just went ahead and tried the 'WINEDEBUG=-all' command with the game, didn't see much difference.

And here's mine...

Running Linux Mint 17 with Cinnamon.

KDE+openbox on Debian