I'm in #
Shadow Warrior (2013)
Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Victor Vran
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Satellite Reign
Hard West Collector's Edition
Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power

I was toying with the 12 series of ubuntu some years ago, on a 2007 laptop. It was okish.
I always came back to windows7, mostly because of office and pdf_editor, I found that none of the alternative offices are 100% compatible with office2007, there were problems in reading the format, pagination, tables etc.

I believe that until W7 microsoft was mostly benign, decent even. But after that, w8 was an interface mess and w10 is spying, even malwareing the user. Unacceptable.
So this means that my switch from w7 to linux will be complete, it's only a matter of time, as late as starting 2020 I'll be linux 100%. Maybe even sooner, who knows. Hopefully, until then, linux will have a solid alternative to office and pdf_edit, and mostly all the games (new and old) will have linux installers too.

Thanks adamhm for another classy giveaway! and, ofc, gl all :)

I'm already a Linux user, first tried it in the 90s but it wasn't until a few years ago that I started using it as my main and virtually only OS.

I'd like to be in for this games:
Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition
Hard West Collector's Edition
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind GOTY Edition
Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Victor Vran
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary + Star Trek: Judgment Rites
Transistor

Thanks for the giveaway!

Thanks for promoting Linux gaming in such a generous way adamhm, +1!

I'll enter with my ranked wishlist entries later, first I want to share a little bit of my new experiences with Linux and their install alongside Windows.

If you want to install Linux without any hassle an you don't have any external media(flash drives, external HDDs, CDs, DVDs, etc.) to extract the .iso archives you can use this small utility called <span class="bold">Unetbootin</span> to use your existing HDD partition with installed windows on it!.

So it works basically the following way - when placed the executable in C:\ (where you windows 7, as in my case was installed) and run it, you first choose which Linux distro you want to try out, that the software will automatically download (from the nearest mirror), extract and prepare for dual boot alongside you existing windows install. Aftar that you choose, what medium you want for the install, in that case choose HDD, and you can safely choose C:\ (actually that was the only option available to me). What will do the program is to download the needed Linux files, to extract them in a subforlder under C:\ and modify the build-in Windows boot loader to include an entry called Unetbootin. When everything is done, you will be asked to restart your PC, after which you'll see the aforementioned boot entry and upon selecting it your Linux install or Live distro will boot-in from where you can install Linux on other partition on your hard drive, or even resize you existing Windows partition to free up space for a new partition (although I recommend doing that inside Windows with the build in windows tools). After the Linux install you will restart and enter first in the newly created Linux bootloader and presented the choice of booting either Linux or Windows(loader), choose the later and you'll get to the now familiar modified windows bootloader, choose windows and when under win activate again the Unetbootin executable, which upon that will inform you that there is a n existing installation of Unetbootin and will ask you do you want to remove it, click yes and the program will delete all files it created - Linux files need for the installation and the modified windows bootloader (it will not delete your new Linux install neither its bootloader). An here you go after reboot you will be greeted with the Linux bootloader that will ask you where you want to go in Linux or Windows - ta dam!

It worth to note that I've tried to install that way last Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu and failed, actually the Ubuntu Live install managed to format my free HDD partition with ext4, but the install hanged up in the middle (while other live distro functions continued to work flawlessly and blazing fast (i5 3530m, 4GB ram)).
But the Linux Mint distro installed from the first try without any hassle (had to do it twice though - remember to place the Linux bootloader on the main HDD entry (the HDD name), not any of the sda partitions) :).

The only downside is the UnetbotIn doesn't give you a choice for a graphical window manager - Linux Mint comes with Cinnamon, probably the default one.

YAY! I feel a god vibe with Linux promotion. It suits the needs of a lot of unsatisfated folks with their current OS that usually don't know Linux benefits. Thanks adamhm!

I've been a Linux user for about 6 months and wonder why I refused to give a chance earlier... I tried Ubuntu, Fedora, Archlinux and Mint. I sticked to Mint Mate for the easy of use and lighweight on computer resources, and can't recommend it enough.

Running for Hard West, Shadowrun: Dragonfall and Transistor

You can use crtl + alt + backspace in Mint desktop enviroments.

I'll try for this one :
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary + Star Trek: Judgment Rites

They each have their own advantages & disadvantages. All of the ones offered with Mint are good, although the Cinnamon & MATE editions are the main ones. I preferred KDE, but then I decided to have a look at KDE 5 recently & really don't like the direction it's headed, which is why I decided to switch to Cinnamon.

What do you find complicated about it? It really isn't that complicated, at least not much more so than Windows. When I started using Mint 3 years ago I had no prior Linux experience & had used only DOS/Windows for the ~20 years before that.

Although I do think that as Windows is so widely used and has been for so long, that for many people using it/working around all its quirks has become almost second nature (especially for those that have grown up knowing nothing else but Windows) & anything different seems a lot harder as a result.

Still, if you're not interested in using it that's fine... I'm not going to try to pressure anyone into it.

Hey, thanks for the Giveaway. +1

I've transitioned my family away from XP (yeah... we were still running that) and now they mostly use Lubuntu. Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to figure out the new Windows Boot Loader, so right now I've only got Windows 10 on my laptop.

I'm in for Morrowind: GOTY edition

Yeah, that Cinnamon looked pretty good. I think it resembles Gnome a little bit.

It's nice to see such a fine selection of games available for Linux.

In for:

Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Door Kickers
Retro City Rampage

I'm in for Transistor.
Thanks!

Been mentioned up above and I agree on that Windows 7 has been good to me and I haven't felt a need to change yet. My family is also used to it and with the kids growing up, it does what we want it to do, learning, entertaining, gaming, etc.
That said, I wouldn't be opposed to using Linux but now is probably not the time for us.

If I could enter for a game it would be Pillars of Eternity Hero Edition.
Thank you for letting us outsiders also enter for your giveaway.

Thank you for this giveaway .

I'm in for :


The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind GOTY Edition
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Mark of the Ninja Special Edition
Shadowrun: Hong Kong

adamhm does it again!

I love what you're doing, it's very generous of you.

I hope more people try Linux, not just because of this giveaway but for what the OS can offer.

Not in, already have too many I still have yet to play. Trying it out won't cost you anything, it's free and you can even run a Live desktop CD/USB without touching your existing system. And you don't need to know how to code to be able to use Linux, my mother is not a coder and she uses for her daily tasks (not joking).

Prior to switching to Linux a little over 1 year ago, I didn't know much about the OS besides installing it and using the basic applications that came with it, mind you I used Windows for over 23 years before that. I don't know how to code either and I still managed to keep Linux as my only OS for the past whole year.

As for games, there's plenty of them and if you tolerate Steam you'll find some great AAA ones too. Wine is also a great piece of software to play Windows games so you don't have to give up your entire Windows library.

It's not as bad as you're making it sound, of course if you have specific games or school software that don't run on Linux/Wine, then I can understand.

A similar "beginner's guide" for Windows (and probably for OSX too) would be about the same.

Also it could be worse. Imagine having to learn how to use Windows 95 with this horror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc

(also as I said in the OP you don't need to try/use Linux to enter)