I found [Ubuntu Linux] easy to work with for the past couple months. Shortly after running Linux, it’s common to want to play games and run office on Linux. To run games on Linux there are three options: 1) Wine 2) Cross over games and 3) Cedega. [Wine] is a Windows emulator that is free and game setup is done by manual setup of config files. 2) [Cross over games] is a commercial product built on Wine that facilitates the manual process. [Cedega] is also a commercial product built on Wine; check the [game database] for supported game information. Cross-over initially created a product to emulate Windows so that MS Office could be installed on Linux and it looks like they want a piece of the gaming market as well. So far Cedega appears to work better for games. Cedega also comes bundled with “Spore Creature Creator” so obviously they are the better choice. Cedega doesn’t support MS Office as far as I know. I installed MS Office 2007 with CrossOver Office, but found MS Word 2007 crashes on startup and the product is still working on support for Office 2007 SP1.