“One glaring issue I’ve had since my transition to Linux is
video games. Being a Nintendo (consoles) and Sierra (PC) kid, I’ve
gravitated to consoles more lately, but the occasional PC game has
kept my interest solidly enough to keep Windows around on a spare
drive. I tried WineX (CVS) in the past, and had great success with
Diablo II, but didn’t bother to try any ‘new’ games with it.“I tend to play LAN-based games of BattleField 1942/Vietnam and
the Rainbow Six variety, but since I am bringing my machine to
someone’s house to play these, choosing ‘Windows’ in GRUB is no big
deal. It’s that whole ‘rebooting to play at home’ part that I
didn’t like, plus the waste of space that the XP install took
up…”