Wow! Seriously, wow! That is a massive list of games to give away!

I've had a real on again/off again relationship with WINE over the years. I love WINE, and what it can do, but eventually I get frustrated jumping through hoops to get some game running, or worse, keeping a game running after an update to WINE, and I'll swear off WINE for a while. Inevitably, I wind up running WINE again. Currently WINE and I are on again. I found my CD to Midtown Madness 2, and introduced my 6yo to the joys of virtual San Francisco! I swear MM2 is running better in WINE than it ever did in Windows (other than the opening cinematic, which refuses to play). Someone seriously needs to get into recreating the Midtown Madness series. The largely non-violent open world driving sim in real-world locations is really awesome!

More exciting than WINE these days is the open source re-implementation engines that are popping up. Things like:
OpenRW - GTAIII Engine
CorsixTH - Theme Hospital Engine
OpenMW - Morrowind Engine
OpenAge - Age of Empires II Engine
OpenTomb - Tomb Raider 1-5 Engine
Some of these are pretty darn complete. OpenMW and CorsixTH are both very good.

Thank you very much for the great giveaway! I'll be in for:

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Tyranny
The Saboteur
Homeworld Remastered Collection
Game of Thrones
Human Fall Flat
Dungeons II

Great giveaway Adam!
You surely love Linux :)

Thanks for the giveaway! That's quite a massive list you got there!

Managed to find three I'm especially interested in, thus (in order of preference), I'm in for:
- Shovel Knight
- This Is The Police
- Layers of Fear + Inheritance DLC

That's fine.

I tested Morrowind in Wine, but as I said in its report only very briefly - OpenMW is very good now and unless you want to use certain mods it's better to use OpenMW to play Morrowind now IMO. The proprietary Nvidia drivers are easy to install on Mint and Ubuntu, and offer the best compatibility. Just add the [url=https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa]graphics drivers PPA[/url] first so you can get the latest drivers, then open the driver manager and install them from there.

You don't have to install it or make any permanent system changes to try it out - you can use something like VirtualBox to install it into a virtual machine, or you can make a bootable USB drive with it.

There are lots of Linux distros that offer different features to suit different uses. The distro I recommend, Linux Mint, is geared towards being a general desktop OS and it's great for everyday stuff, games etc. and easy to use. One of the main reasons for the giveaway is to show this :)

Anyway you don't have to use or try Linux to enter the giveaway, so if there's anything you want feel free to enter :)


Use PlayOnLinux... it lets you install many different Wine versions simultaneously so you can use specific versions for each game if necessary, so if a regression causes something to break in a new version of Wine you can still play it using an older version instead. As for the hoops, just keep notes about what's needed to get something to run the first time so you don't have to figure it all out again later on. Also check the Wine thread here/reports on the AppDB/etc. first to see if anyone else has it figured out already so you don't need to.

Thanks for this massive and great GA! I'm in for :
Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition + The White March - Expansion Pass
Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Satellite Reign
Dungeons 2 + DLC
Risen 3: Titan Lords - Complete Edition
Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series
Lords of Xulima Deluxe Edition
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Aragami
Titan Quest - Anniversary Edition
Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Dead Space
The Wolf Among Us
Simcity 4 Deluxe Edition
X3: Reunion + X3: Terran War Pack
FEAR Platinum + FEAR 2: Project Origin + Reborn
STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl
Deadly Premonition Director's Cut
Two Worlds Epic Edition

Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Thanks for the huge generosity.

I'm interested, in order of preference, in the following games:

> Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
> Shadowrun: Hong Kong
> Tyranny - Commander Edition
> Divinity: Dragon Commander Imperial Edition
> Starbound
> Shovel Knight
> Transistor
> Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Ultimate Edition
> Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
> STALKER Call of Pripyat
> Slain: Back From Hell

Other than that, thank you, thank you, thank you! :D :D :D

About Linux: I have an interest in trying Valve's version of it, but I find it hard to believe I'll be trying it anytime soon, because I don't have an old machine I could spare experimenting on right now.

Wow, what a huge giveaway! And for a noble purpose too.

I'm using Linux for several years and I don't even have Windows at my main machine. All my gaming must is now solely on Linux for a two years now. Truth is that some games are not working even in Wine wrapper, but a lot of them do. In fact, majority of them is working just fine.

Biggest advantage of having Linux, for me, is having control over my system, unlike Windows or OSX which are dealing with user as with a kid who can break things and do not allow him to do anything. Absolute joke is Microsoft selling "professional version" of Windows, so user can have some settings. I rather keep my free OS which allows me everything from the start :)

Enough ranting on Microsoft, I'm in for the Anno pack. I wanted to try these Anno games for a long time.

Thank you very much, Tux will be pleased!

Generous giveaway! Thank you for doing this. I have a Linux VM (Lubuntu) I use on a near daily basis, and I like it fine. :)

I'm in for:

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
Lords of Xulima Deluxe Edition
Epistory - Typing Chronicles
Transistor
Kerbal Space Program

That's one heck of a crazy giveaway. Thanks for this and for all your work testing games in Wine.

I'd like to enter for:

Hard West Collector's Edition + Scars of Freedom
Tyranny - Commander Edition

A great undertaking indeed, adamhm! Thumbs up!

WOW. Epic giveaway. And they say Santa Claus isn't real :)

Not in (I've got a fair backlog) - just thought I'd mention I did use Linux (Mint) for a short while and I loved it, but then the comp gave up the ghost and I didn't get around to reinstalling it again :( I definitely plan to get back to Linux when I put together a new PC.

Wow, thank you for the opportunity to enter for some amazing games!

I'm in for:
Worms: Armageddon
Thief Pack
Monkey Island pack
Fallout Classics Bundle
Gothic pack
Heroes of Might and Magic Pack

I wouldn't recommend SteamOS unless you want a system with a console-like interface for the living room etc. You can make it work as a desktop system, but it'll be harder and take more effort than just starting out with the likes of Mint in the first place, especially when it comes to non-Steam games.

There's no need for an old machine to try most Linux distros on - you could install VirtualBox and set up a virtual machine, or you could make a bootable flash drive. Dual booting is quite easy to do as well, although I'd recommend experimenting in a virtual machine first if you're unsure about what you're doing.

Thank you for this great giveaway!
I'm in for:
Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition + The White March - Expansion Pass
Tyranny - Commander Edition
Wasteland 2 Director's Cut Digital Classic Edition
Risen 2 Gold

I have been linux user for four years now. I started with linux Mint and now I'm running linux Debian 8.5 Jessie on my pc and so far everything has worked great.

Wowzers!
You have, like, more than half of my wishlist in there (which, yup, consists entirely of Linux games or games which run well under wine); possibly as much as three quarters! (Are you some kind of crazy person?!) Massive kudos and +1s for all your continued work to promote Linux!

I'd like to be in for:
> Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition + The White March - Expansion Pass
> Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
> Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
> Transport Fever
> Tyranny - Commander Edition
> We Are The Dwarves
> Wasteland 2 Director's Cut Digital Classic Edition
> Infinifactory
> Star Ruler 2 + Wake of the Heralds
> Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
> X Rebirth: Home of Light Complete Edition
> The Bard's Tale
> Lords of Xulima Deluxe Edition
> Anno pack (1602, 1503, 1701, 1404)
> Baldur's Gate + Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Editions
> Divine Divinity + Beyond Divinity (I already own Divine Divinity, so if I'd win this, please gift that part to someone else)
> Monkey Island pack (The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition, Monkey Island 2 SE, Tales of Monkey Island)
> Thief Pack (Thief Gold, Thief II: The Metal Age, Thief III: Deadly Shadows) (I already own Thief III, so if I'd win this, please gift that part to someone else)
> Xenonauts