huh.

my laptop is old (2003), and i lived off the grid for a while, during which time it was often plugged into a generator that didn't give very a clean (or constant) quality feed. it now lasts for 12 minutes on a "full" charge, and won't even hold that charge for more than 48 hours of being unplugged and off.

having only tried TF2 via wine once about a year ago, i'd be inclined to agree with the AC. i got it running, and semi-playable, but the graphics were a little sluggish and stuttery - even on low settings, with directx adjustments and all the other tweaks recommended on winehq. it was enough of a performance hit to make me resigned to running a dual-boot system.

i'll check out playonlinux though, thanks for the link.

(hopes to god that it works, since my win7rc is expiring, i only own a copy of winXP 32bit, and having an entire second OS solely for the purpose of playing 2 or 3 games is getting old regardless...)

unceremoniously dumped in the woods.

YOU!

i'm willing to bet that she wouldn't describe those 5 minutes as "good."

bas doot

another vote for savage 2.

s2 games is also working on heroes of newerth, a dota clone/fork/somethingorother (currently in beta). it runs (on all low settings) on my pentium m 1.8ghz mobility radeon 9700 old laptop. much nicer on my new desktop, but playable on weaker hardware. in short, s2 games gives me hope for the future of linux gaming.

also:
world of goo (amazing)

http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080510052539217/Games.html
http://whdb.com/2008/top-25-linux-games-for-2008/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_gaming

fork it dude, let's go bowling.

when proselytizing for open source, you might want to avoid comparisons to slave-built structures.