I am a full time Linux user since February of 2013. I went from Linux Mint to openSUSE and have now settled on Manjaro Linux which is an absolute joy to use, especially for gaming!

Debian is my main OS. I'm not really interested in purchasing binary only Linux games however. I prefer Window's powerful backwards compatibility for that sort of thing.

*raises hand*

Actually, you'd be surprised. Once a bit of software is supported under Wine, it tends to work from then on. There is the occasional regression, but as time goes by, the software they use to test for regressions gets more and more complete so those tend to happen less and less.

In other words, once a Windows game works on Linux, it tends to work from then on, MS does its best not to break older bits of software, but it's not always possible to avoid that without causing harm to the OS. Linux isn't so constrained as it can have a set of APIs and such just for individual applications.

Personally, I'd love to see GOG release DOSBox games using a simple wrapper. Even if it has to be just in the user's home directory.

I have a PC with Puppy Linux (Slacko) on it.. I use it to play games on DOSBox mainly. :)

Since it's a laptop from 2007, it's not the fastest computer, so I decided not to buy the latest Windows for it. I tried Puppy out, and it runs really fast and takes up very little hard drive space, leaving me plenty of room for DOS games :D

I started getting into VPSes about middle of last year. Briefly tried Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and I'm pretty much decided to stick with CentOS for now as several essential scripts and software are designed for that.

Learning's slow and frustrating, though. Linux is too modern and complex to be so command-line focused. Something simple like DOS works OK with CL -- Linux has wayyyyyyyyyy toooooooo muchhhhhhhh to memorize, and even the --help functions list too many things for me to comprehend anything. Much easier to Google and copy+paste.

Linux user of 11 years now, originally Red Hat, then SuSE, now Ubuntu since 2005.

I use Linux for everything except gaming, but I expect as WINE continues to mature I'll be relocating a lot of my gaming activities to Ubuntu as well this year. May also consider a relocation to Mint.

Not using Linux but voted for Linux games on GOG, and I advocate Linux games when I can. I like the idea of Linux, but moving to it would be more hassle than staying with Windows, so I'm unlikely to do it.

I've been a Linux user for years (can't remember for how long). It's my primary system but I still have a Windows installation on a second SSD for gaming.

Now, with more and more games coming natively to Linux and at the same time me only rarely playing games anymore, I hardly have a use for Windows and am planning on wiping it off of the second SSD and installing another Linux system there.

At home I occasionally use Mint Linux, just to keep a couple of older PCs that originally had Windows XP or even older as feasible net PCs (I feel a bit unsecure using them online with XP, at least with things like online banking or whatever; one of them did get seriously infected at one point with some "Security Sphere 2012" ransom-ware; it was a bitch to get rid of).

At work I use various other Linuxes, usually ones closer to Red Hat Linux (or even RHEL itself). Also certain smaller Linuxes meant for embedded systems, which I kinda dislike because e.g. some of their commands have reduced functionality or are even missing in order to reduce the size, so something that you expected to work does not work after all in them, as certain command doesn't include certain options or whatever. Infuriating, you learn those things by your mistakes.

At some point I also tried CentOS at home, mainly because it was closer to the RedHat family of Linuxes (which I use at work), and I was at a time on a Linux coiurse too where we used CentOS.

I haven't tried gaming on Linux much yet, mainly because at home Linux has been so far been running only on my older hardware (as a secure replacement for old Windows versions). Maybe at some point I will install it also to my newer PC. I have a few times tried WINE, at least Icewind Dale (GOG) seemed to run fine on it.

I recall also trying out e.g. Mandriva, Fedora etc. in the past, but they didn't stick. Especially Fedora, when I realized that it is merely a test (beta?) version of RHEL, so it will always be more or less buggy. CentOS is a much more sensible RHEL-lookalike.

Linux user for over 2... months. ;) Gaming issues aside, I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu and I'm not planning on switching to something else for now.

Currently 41 (42 posts) to last poll's 117.

Do we have fewer users, fewer motivated to repost, or do we still have a few users left out there?

No.1 Ubuntu 13.10 on my laptop I use for presentations plus some processing, blender to kill the time while "on the road" I wasn't willing to pay money for an OS if all I really want it to do is showing some pdf files. And I feel a bit safer out there with a Linux system.

No.2 My mother uses my old machine, also running Ubuntu. She likes to klick on things...

I used Linux exclusively from about 2005-2010. LFS for a couple years, openSUSE for a couple years, then Arch. I also dabbled with several others including Debian and Fedora.

Sometime around 2010 I went back to Windows due to some problems I was having with Linux. I still used Arch in a VM for some applications, and to keep in touch with current Linux. I also semi-regularly install several VMs with a variety of distros and an internal network to experiment with network services. Currently I've switched over to BSDs for the same purpose.

Just waiting for a good reason to switch back full-time. Steam, while not what I'm looking for, is a sign that the day is coming.

I'm going to dig this up one last time on the off chance that doing a poll around new years was bad timing.

As it looks now there are far fewer posters this time around. What that means, I don't really know