Just switched to Ubuntu...

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I had a lot of problems with XP on my laptop, so I decided to try out Linux for the first time on one of my own machines. I picked Ubuntu, and at first I really liked it. In fact, I still love the look and feel of it, and the snappiness!

However, this weekend I went over to a friend's house for some good ole' fashion LANing and had some troubles. After about four hours of trying to use WINE and PlayOnLinux I gave up trying to play any games. All of; Battle for Middle Earth, Age of Empires 2 and expansion, and Genesis; would install fine but would not run! Running them would cause the splash logo to come up, then suddenly I'd get an error and the splash would disappear.

I've read countless instructions, followed many, and had no success! Any advice before I switch back to Windows?!

 

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If you want to play games designed for WINDOWS perhaps you should use WINDOWS?

I might be misreading this, but that seems pretty negative. Not sure how well founded that is as my first line was "I had a lot of problems with XP" showing that I used to game with Windows, and my last line "Any advice before I switch back to Windows" shows that I've obviously thought of "playing WINDOWS games on WINDOWS" ...

I was only hoping that veteraned linuxers could show me where I was going wrong.

Okay then, dual-booting it is. However, how come so few games are designed to run on both Windows and Linux? Linux seems pretty prominent nowadays?! Also, could anyone give me a short list, or link to such a list, of games that are compatible with Linux?

Dearly sincerely.

 

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Thanks SteveOB. Very neat and concise explanation for myself ^_^

One last question; for programming (Java/C/C++/DM/e.t.c) would you recommend Linux or Windows?