Perfect analogy.

Also why I don't understand people who swear by Linux.

Linux has had a GUI for more than a decade now.

I've always found it funny while going through school, I learn the Windows GUI and in my job always end up using the Windows command line. I learned Linux via the command line, but always end up using the GUI at work :P

People swear by Linux because it's vastly superior in many ways. Security, stability, configurability, performance, etc. However, it's also vastly inferior in one way, which happens to be the most important thing to 95% of users; ease of use.

On-topic: I don't use any add-ons. I had used some in the past, but I found my most beloved ones becoming unusable after certain patches. Having to update them or re-enable after every patch was annoying too. I quit using them about the time WoW seemed to be getting patched on a weekly basis. I'm thinking of checking them out again though, as I hear they have come a long way.

Linux is actually as easy if not easier than Windows to install and use now. The major problem is compatibility with games, and some obscure hardware.

@Felwrathe
Check this Linux GUI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ImW0-MgR8I

Vista what?

And if you read what the others were saying, we don't NEED it either, we just prefer it. Sometimes it's nice to just see the game and not the crappy interface that you get out of the box.

Good for you BuzzLightforge.

Just because you do good without addons doesn't mean you couldn't do better with them !

When you make blanket statements, you sound like a fool.

I never understood the people who consider addons a "crutch" (or, better yet, "cheating") and how they rationalize it when Blizzard, in their infinite wisdom, integrates an addon into the basic UI. I can only assume you refuse to turn them on, insisting still that you don't need a crutch. No Scrolling Combat Text for you!! All that easily accessible information is just *too* gosh darn helpful! Maybe you should turn off all the options in the user interface, and set your graphics down to the bare minimum-- I mean, you don't want all that extra stuff help "crutch" you up in the BG's. :P

And, in my opinion only, a tank who doesn't use a threat meter is a liability.

I, too, would consider myself a semi-pro addon enthusiast, and the only addon that I use that I can say arguably makes the game "easier" is Healbot-- because I couldn't imagine healing without it.

For everything else, it's new bars (Bongos2) or quest help (Cartographer + Questhelper) or the like. I'd probably triple my fps in windows if I did without, but since I run from Linux, I get pretty good fps as it is. (for my crappy laptop, anyway!)

If I need something more, I write a macro. (I'm particularly proud of my druid macros) :) Oh, wait.. are those a crutch too? :P :P

ah your absolutely perfect, Nice to meet you Mr J. Christ, Truthfully its east to spout nonsense from behind a computer screen. I don't believe a word of it till given proof.

sorry but that basic bull, since it take far more than just you to pull off what you claim.

Please not the careful wording or Rerolls post,

When he dps's , when he tanks, and when he heals, Of course the fact he never plays the game to above level 10 because at that point it get to hard and he actually has to start doing all of the above is why he phrased it that way. thats why he is a reroll addict he is addicted to rerolling ever time the game gets a bit hard.

You do know you can switch off the feature that unlocks the map?
But cartographer has way more features than that - like gatherer functionality, seeing where guildmates are in the world, stored waypoints, etc

Way before gatherer people had routes they followed for gathering. After awhile you just memorize where you have found things and stay on the route.