The AppDB is mainly used to report compatibility and usually lacks any form of tutorial, step-by-step guide or any tips unless you dig through the comments and get lucky.

Another issue with the AppDB is how out of date a lot of the test results have become. I have added my own within the past year but I play very few games and probably don't make much of an impact.

Additionally the AppDB doesn't always encompass GOG's catalogue. Some maintainers have added "GoG Version" but it's still a minority.

So, in light of this, having a GOG specific Wiki (not only reporting wine compatibility) would be more appropriate in my opinion.

What are your thoughts?

You'd be surprised: http://postimage.org/image/vyvdr6sxx/ (This is in floating mode, not forgetting all of the potentially views (top left corner))

My thoughts? Contribute to the GOG Wiki.

EDIT: Sorry, my bad. You already pointed the site out.

Over the course of the weekend and yesterday my latest adventures included installing and trying out Windowmaker, Enlightenment, LXDE, Xfce and last but not least KDE in addition to having already tried Gnome 3 on Linux Mint and Unity on Ubuntu. Everything new I tried was added to the Linux Mint install on the laptop which I happily found was very simple to do with the software manager app.

I've had a lot less trouble on the laptop than I was having before. I think some of the problems were user created as I was not used to its keyboard and was inadvertently hitting key combos as I typed very quickly that resulted in the cursor jumping around unexpectedly, etc. I also haven't seen much in the way of crashes after Unity which I'm thinking could have been video chipset/driver related. Anyway, things are much more stable than when I began which is nice. Testing with Live CDs on the desktop PC revealed everything I had tested was quite stable which was also very nice to see.

KDE seems faster than Gnome on the laptop and having gotten to know it better, I've come to like it more. I can see a place in the world for Gnome's simplicity as mentioned above but I liked the looks and customization possibilities of KDE much more. Both LXDE and Xfce look like excellent choices for lower spec hardware or blistering fast performance on newer hardware. I liked the appearance of LXDE better out of the box. It reminds me a little of Win XP in its appearance. On the other hand, the basic setup of Xfce, which reminds me a little of OS X although plainer in appearance, is pretty cool too.

The Window managers Windowmaker and Enlightenment were fun to check out but too light for my tastes. Windowmaker for me was just a curiosity because I used to use it off and on many moons ago now so I wanted to see it again. Enlightenment is impressive for how much they manage using so little resources. It's a great alternative for a low spec machine certainly.

In the end I've decided if I do put Linux on my desktop, KDE would be the DE I'd be using there. For the laptop which I've now gummed up with installing so many environments and all their apps the jury is still out. It actually runs KDE just fine but I am tempted to go with LXDE or Xfce to eek out every last bit of performance I can there.

I love variety and am a little tempted to run multiple environments on the desktop if I go with Linux but I am just being crazy. KDE with its activities would let me setup customized environments for gaming, etc. and there's no real need for any other environment. I just like the change of pace switching around brings I guess. Maybe I will get my fill of that by running something different on the laptop.

Just out of curiosity, how many of you run multiple DE's on your Linux install and for what purpose do you choose to run more than one?

Would you count Emacs as an environment? I usually run that in a tty alongside whatever GUI I'm running. Its great for text editing/programming (of course) but I also use it as a terminal, web browser, email client, IRC client, calendar etc. etc...

You're so hardcore Dominic! ha ha
I forgot to thank you earlier for the info about the ArchWiki. I have that bookmarked for future reference now. It does look very nice and helpful.

Only one desktop environment: Xfce. I have no need for multiple desktop environments/window manager and I like Xfce best anyway.

At one point I thought that Xfce was more in my way than it was helpful and tried a tiling window manager (former scrotwm, now spectrwm and subtle). But I quickly realised that they were even more in my way or that I didn't like the way they operate or maybe that a tiling WM simply wasn't exactly what I was looking for and I switched back to Xfce.

The only thing I'm missing in Xfce is an easy (as in: already implemented in Xfce) way to move windows like terminals around with the keyboard instead of the mouse, like it's done in subtle. Other than that I have no reason to complain, nor to try something different.