Ed Kolis said:
... but on the plus side, no need to mess around with tricky DirectX WINE settings once SE5 comes out 
And I get to play X2: The Threat, which might keep me occupied, seeing as the last time I played it was on the old laptop where it barely ran...
Yeah, same thing happens to me. Linux was so clean, and the net was so well integrated into the operating system, and I don't use many commercial Windows programs, but still: I had to play my games. I just had to.