[shadowoflight]

> Then after I spent a day getting it all working I'd be staring at my computer and it wouldn't take more than an hour or two to think "Ok, that's cool but I want to play a game" or something else that I couldn't do in linux.

Hah, for me, this was when I started getting deep into WINE and also some of the games available for Linux (SuperTux, that one game where you shoot a ball and it sticks to other balls and if enough of them are the same color they disappear, and some DOOM port).

[marcodiego]

> that one game where you shoot a ball and it sticks to other balls and if enough of them are the same color they disappear

Frozen bubble.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

I remember making a Rox AppDir of that. It was written in Python[0] IIRC and I had to modify a few lines to account for relative paths. I miss Rox...

[0] I misremembered, it was actually Perl.

[shadowoflight]

Thank you! I knew the name had something to do with ice, but the name eluded me.

[joshstrange]

I did the same for sure, played every native linux game there was but at the time most of the game I played were rough under wine. CS: Source, TF2, L4D, and WoW were all pretty hard to get reliably running especially compared to their windows performance (note, this was 2007-2009 range). I still remember a youtube video showing WoW running on Wine and they had Compiz so you could see WoW running then they switched (using the rotating cube transition) to another desktop. The video claimed it was getting higher FPS on Linux+Wine vs Windows so I of course dropped everything to try it.... I did not have similar results.

[shadowoflight]

Heh, my time with Linux was before then, I think - but only by a couple of years. I do recall having some fun experimenting with StarCraft and NFS: Hot Pursuit (the og 1998 version, not the 2010 remake) under Wine, though.