Let me preface this tip by saying I am not at all a gamer. However, I have seen many posts on the PCMech forums here with people wanting to run Linux, but still play their Windows games. A dual boot seems to be the answer, but for those dedicated to getting Windows games to work in Linux, check out this article on Linux.com called ‘Play Windows games on Linux with PlayOnLinux‘.

From reading the article, PlayOnLinux is a script which interfaces with the popular Wine software. You can download scripts from PlayOnLinux’s web site for the particular game you are wanting to play which “configures” Wine accordingly. The list game scripts is pretty extensive.

Gamers looking to make Linux their “full time” OS should give this a try.