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First of all, this is merely a wrapper, not an actual port of the game. You could have done the very same thing ArenaNet did by using one of the various wrappers available out there. It has limited success and most people are noting significant FPS hits using the wrapper compared to running it on bootcamp.
So if you want to run it on Linux, I suggest you do exactly what ArenaNet did, take one of the wrappers out there that allow you to play Windows games under your OS and use that. THAT IS ALL ARENANET DID with this Mac Beta Client. They did not rewrite that game for the Mac.
I wouldn’t have an issue if Arena.net OFFICALLY supported wine as they did with Cider (be it cider an older branch off of wine on a different licensing agreement.) The latest build of Wine 1.5.13 now supports the raw input needed by GW2 to rotate the camera, however the awesominium browser used by GW2 became broken, even with the patches, after the OS X beta updates, so there is no way to use the trade center currently, even after trying to import the native libraries from XP SP3. So yeah, if they support OS X, they should support Linux. Linux has a brighter future of the 3, considering the practices Microsoft and Apple are now employing.