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My view of this situation.
Client/site/attitude differences (in no particular order).
I run Linux, so am used to Open Source projects.
I value stability and security.
Using an alpha or early beta? Much too risky unless you're a tester.
Wowinterface seems more "Linux friendly" than Curse.
Procedures here seem more "sane".
The Curse client does not have a Linux version.
I've found more broken md5sums on Curse than here. Windows is malware friendly, hence why this is an issue for me. I need Wine to run WOW, which is almost as vulnerable as Windows.
Windows does not play nice, hence the need for something like Java to provide platform independence.
No such thing as "standalone". All software needs something to "stand" on.
Versioning issues have already been explained by Dolby. Strange situation, rarely seems to happen with Linux apps.
Because of the above, my personal preference is to only use something from Curse because my guild requires it (like DBM).
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