You know what’s not a good idea? Changing your laptop’s OS before leaving on vacation and thinking, "eh, WoW works fine under Wine, I don’t have to worry about silly things like testing. And this OS seems to be running fine – I can’t think why I’d need to bring my flash drive to install a replacement." So yeah, after posting about how awesome the rep gain bonus for the holiday was, and how I was planning to take advantage of it, and after in my head planning out a series of nice relaxing Dire Maul runs while my turkey digested… well, let’s just say none of that happened.
Spoiler alert for anyone thinking about it: Acer Aspire One AOD-150 + Kubuntu + Wine + WoW = a non-working WoW setup.
Wednesday night, after fiddling with it and failing pretty much all day, I gave in and finally bought a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium at the reduced education cost – it had been previously running the Windows 7 RC, it needed a legitimate OS anyhow. By midday Thursday I was reinstalling Windows onto my netbook using my mom’s new $700 Pentax camera, plus the 16 GB SDHC card from my DSi, as a cobbled-together USB drive. Oh, and I booted the Win7 DVD using UNetbootin, because my setup wasn’t epic enough yet.
So after maybe an hour or so, I had a fully-functioning netbook with its own proper OS again, and it would’ve been entirely capable of running WoW had I remembered to evacuate my WoW setup from Kubuntu. Whoops.
Oh, hey, no biggie, I’ll watch Persona: Trinity Soul instead. … Wait, you mean I left that on the Kubuntu drive as well? Damn it! Oh well, I can just download them from home.
Wait, what do you mean it’s going to take a bajillion hours to download from home? Oh hell, now I have to find new things to do. Good thing I planned for this eventuality and brought Persona 3 FES and Persona 4 home with me. So I spent pretty much the rest of my vacation playing those two, as indicated on my Backloggery.
Which led to me and Cas discussing Persona 4 on Twitter and concluding that even though she has the best followup in the game, Chie Satonaka cannot Galactic Punt Ameno-sagiri.
No matter what the picture that goes with this post may tell you.
Hope everyone had a good, or at least tolerable, holiday, and it’s good to be back. 
My first thought regarding that picture, without reading anything, was "Hey, someone is kicking the Death Star away"
That is not as far off base as you might think.
Here's what it really looks like:
<img src="http://thestoppableforce.net/images/Amenosagiri.jpg" />
I could never get into Trinity Soul and I gave up after like 6 episodes… does it get any better? Also, that pic STILL makes me giggle. Hee!
I have a Dell Mini 10v with which I'm really tempted to dual-boot Ubuntu. I'm not sure how well WoW would work on it, but FFXI just HOVERS between unplayable and loltastic (and it barely works on Wine anyways).
I honestly can't tell you! I downloaded it because I heard about it after playing P3FES, forgot about it entirely, and then it came up again recently at Persona MUSH. I'll let you know once I get a little further into it.
As for the Mini – the hardware is comparable to the Acer, at least as far as the graphics card goes, so I can tell you WoW will work in Windows (with all the graphics settings cranked down as far as they can go, anyway), and likely will not work at all under Ubuntu – even Cedega doesn't support the type of Intel Media Accelerator built in to most netbooks.