I have considered trying Linux to revive some old hardware, namely a low spec tablet, but never ended up trying it out. A few co-workers really promoted it to me, though they stressed the importance of learning command line, which I don't have the time and desire to learn right now, with a family, full time work, and going to college.

I appreciate the giveaway! I missed getting this game when it was first removed from the gog catalog and regretted missing it since. I'm in for:

XIII

Braussie, they informed you wrong. You don't really need to understand how to work Linux. Just run it like you would Windows pretty much. You might need some help getting certain programs or drivers/hardware working right, so get that help. As far as which distro to get. Hard to say. Ubuntu is the most popular and thus the easiest to find help on.

There are also software centers that allow you to easily install stuff listed there, but the selection can be inadequate and the entries out of date.

Make sure /home is on a different partition than base. And if you want to have both Linux and Windows installed, you might consider installing them on different drives (and maybe not having Linux drive on when installing windows)

You might consider using a LVM. Also using NTFS for a neutral third drive for mutual storage.

I'd like to enter for these games. Thank you!

- Blade Runner
- Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
- State of Mind
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition Deluxe
- TANGLEWOOD
- UnderRail
- Dead Space
- Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
- Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition
- Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
- FEAR Platinum

Thanks adamhm for the giveaway. There are a lot of nice games, I would like to participate for the following.

The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion
Hitman Blood Money + Absolution
Fallout New Vegas
Blade Runner
Underrail
Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun

Thank you, adamhm, for your incessant work in spreading Linux around the gamers' community.
Many thanks to you and sunshinecorp for the giveaway too. Not in.

Merry Christmas and happy new year! Happy holidays!

I kept Win 7 on my HDD, I will get rid of it in the next weeks or days.
I put Win 10 on my SSD.
And I installed Manjaro in VM to try out. Yeah that's not Mint, but I can try out Mint too.

I'm in for:
XIII
SWAT 4: Gold Edition
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection
Jazz Jackrabbit Collection

Thanks for the giveaway!

I'm in please.

Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
Blade Runner
Dead Space
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Hitman: Blood Money + Hitman: Absolution
SWAT 4: Gold Edition

Merry Christmas adamhm!

Merry Christmas to you, Adam, and thanks for the giveaway!
I'll be in for Blade Runner. That's it, just Blade Runner.

For those wondering:

The deadline for this giveaway is Wednesday 25th December at 20:00 UTC, or:

Wednesday 25th December at 3 PM EST if you are in the USA.

Hey, adamhm, thank you for mentioning GameHub. It works great! And it includes your Linux Wrappers for that extra quality. And thank you for your involvement in the Linux community as well as for your generous contributions.

If possible I would like to be in for:
- UnderRail
- Saints Row: The Third - The Full Package
- Blade Runner
- Tropico 3 Gold Edition

Happy holidays, everyone!

Thanks a lot Adam for this new big giveaway !
As a very happy Linux user myself since many years I can only second you in encouraging others to switch to it. I also appreciate greatly your involvement in making playing under Linux easier.

I am in for the following games in decreasing order of preference:
- Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
- Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition
- FEAR Platinum
- Hitman: Blood Money + Hitman: Absolution
- STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
- Blade Runner
- Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

(Waving hands)

Thank you for the giveaway adamhm, and Merry Christmas!

I've wanted to try Linux for a while but i think it was your many Linux themed giveaways that got me to finally try Linux a couple of months ago. It's been going pretty well so far. Although as far as gaming is concerned, I've only played games with native Linux ports so far. I haven't tried running anything with Wine yet because I'm a bit worried about issues i might run into and I'm not sure how big the performance hit is going to be. I might try running some games via Wine soon. Though i need to spend some time to learn a bit about how exactly to use Wine.

I'd like to be in for these games:

> Arma: Cold War Assault + Arma: Gold Edition + Arma 2: Combined Operations
> UnderRail
> Blade Runner
> Anno 1404: Gold Edition
> Dead Space
> Call of Juarez
> Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
> Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
> Driftmoon
> SteamWorld Heist + DLC
> Jazz Jackrabbit Collection
> Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection
> Tropico 3 Gold Edition
> Deadly Premonition
> Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
> Dust: An Elysian Tail
> Hotline Miami
> Kona
> State of Mind
> TANGLEWOOD
That's what i did when i installed Linux for the first time a while ago. I don't want to lose access to certain Windows only programs i might need to use and games that may not run on Wine or don't have native Linux ports. No problems so far.

I use windows extensively at work, but not for game playing.

What would bring me to dual-booting linux at home would be an postive answer to the following quesiton.

Can Linux (with WINE) do a better job at playing old games than Windows?


GOG advertises Tomb Raider 2 as explicitly unsupported on Windows 10. I'm unsure exactly why, but given the hoops I've had to jump through to get other games to work in Win 10 it might be something unfixable.

Will I have better luck playing Tomb Raider 2 under WINE?



Thanks for the giveaway, but I'll be sitting this one out.