I don't know how to do anything, or what Linux is?

[OutOfAmmo907]

Hi, I built a computer last week, and found out that after a clean fresh install, my hard drive took a poop and just busted. I bought a new one, but I do not have a copy of windows 7. Me being a computer fanatic, wants to look into other operating systems. I thought "Linux! It is free! It is Linux!" And I am planning on putting Linux as my main OS from now on, or until I can get Windows, but if I like linux, I might stick with it. My computer specs are:
AMD FX 6300 3.5GHz 6-core processor
8GB DDR3 1600MHz Crucil Ballistix Sport Desktop Memory
Gigabyte Radeon HD 7850 2GB DDR5
MSi 970A-G43 Motherboard
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 64MB Cache 7200RPM Internal Computer Hard Drive
Corsair CX430W 80+ Bronze Power Supply
NZXT Source 210 Black Case

My main question is, is Rift compatible with Linux, if so, do I need Wine or whatever it was to download and play Rift? I have been playing Rift for a bit, and the main reason I built a PC, was to play Rift at good settings, good frames during Raids and Warfronts ETC. Please help me out, thanks!

 

[skittle]

Unfortunately at this time Rift does not have a native Linux client.
This means your only option to get it running under Linux is to use WINE.
What is WINE? http://www.winehq.org/about/

Fortunately Rift works very well under WINE 1.6+
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=22884

Unfortunately you will need to install wine 1.6 or 1.7 manually as Ubuntu still uses wine 1.4.
You can accomplish with 4 commands:

# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install wine1.7
# sudo apt-get install winetricks

please use latest Ubuntu 13.10 or equivalent distribution to avoid problems with your hardware (missing drives.. etc)since it is very new