Thanks for info... Guess I will stick with Microsoft for games. Personally I have been using Microsoft for almost 30 years since DOS 2.11 way way back, prior to that was Tandy's Disk Operating System on a Trash 80 with cassette loads...lol I have no problems with Microsoft, and have paid many thousands of dollars to them for licensing and OS over the years. The $ in place of the S was just to be funny, not to state that MS is evil..lol Just that it costs money, and I like Free better, ONLY AS LONG AS FREE IS LEGAL. I dont bother with crackedware etc. Not worth the risk of getting busted. Guess I wont be severing my dependency on Microsoft in the near future for OS's since I am a gamer and so I have to stick with what the gaming industry uses as their supported platforms.
Back in college I was surrounded by a large group who were all Linux is the ultimate OS and nothing is better. They urged me to go to a Linux show in Boston where you can bring a computer with you and they would put the next best distro on it for you to walk out with the ultimate OS in their eyes. I decided not to go because I didnt have a spare computer that was capable of the newest distro and had college projects that needed to be attended to on a full course load, plus working 2 jobs living on my own in my own home. So I didnt have the flexability and money they had to burn.
For the fact that I stayed the course of Windows 98SE into Windows XP Pro while they stayed the course of Linux and shunned my not switching to the ultimate OS in their eyes, I thought maybe I was being biased in not switching. Now I realize that Linux is great in what it is capable of, but still has lots of limitations in the gaming aspects, and that it really comes down to personal preference for OS as well as sticking with the OS that the creator if the game created it for than trying to run it emulated etc unless I want to run into troubles.
Today I use Linux for web surfing, e-mail, and as a tool to fix troubled Windows systems hard drives. I guess I will stick with Linux as a workstation and tool vs the #1 solution to all aspects of my computing needs, which I had originally assumed it could easily be using WINE.