[Ed P]

Gog also have a small selection of (mainly old) Linux games:

One or two (Witcher & GrimRock) are fairly new, but nearly all are of the RP/Adventure genre

 

[Ed P]

I’d be happy to donate as well.  I’d even allow Ads (provided they don’t slurp bandwidth). Some Ads have become so intrusive and slow that they have had to go on sites such as Gizmodo (35% of content and 11 of 16  superfluous domains – domain connection time is the killer).

Lee, talking of Ads – are you still doing wood-work? You showed some nice stuff on MM a year or two ago.

[Ed P]

I’m afraid it looks as though the failure of the Steam Machine has blighted the chances of games playing natively in Linux. Most of the majors now seem to have abandoned the Linux platform for cutting-edge games. I now tend to use a Windows 10 host then run Linux vms for Internet use, and Windows 7 or 10 vms for games. Although a bit of speed/frame rate is lost by doing this, I get the advantage of being able to snapshot or pause ANY game!

If you want to get into other alternatives to Linux you could try ReactOS. https://www.reactos.org/
At present this is a poor games machine but the development group have games playing as one of their objectives:
https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Games_ROS_Testing

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