In many cases it can. But it depends on a lot of things.

I remember giving my little sister a USB stick with Linux + Wine on it to play diablo 2, because it didn't run well on her Windows.

A big giveaway for a nice reason, thank you!
Personally, I've been alternating between Windows 7 and occasionally Kubuntu.

I'd like to enter for:

Arma: Cold War Assault + Arma: Gold Edition + Arma 2: Combined Operations
SWAT 4: Gold Edition
Blade Runner
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
XIII
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition Deluxe
Rayman Origins
Jazz Jackrabbit Collection
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection
UnderRail
Dust: An Elysian Tail
Dead Space
State of Mind

Merry Christmas!

Merry christmas / Happy holidays to all of you and thank you adamhm for this amazing giveaway ! :D

Personally I have no experience with Linux but I was thinking about installing Lubuntu on my old Windows XP Laptop.

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I'm in for:

> Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition
> Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
> Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
> The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition Deluxe
> UnderRail
> Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
> Kona
> Stories: The Path of Destinies

It really depends on the old game. Dos box works pretty well under Wine or Windows, at least some of the time.

Otherwise, you can run older versions of windows in a virtual machine on top of Linux (or whatever)

Sometimes games works better on wine (I once encountered this rare case but I forgot the name of the game) , sometimes more or less the same as on windows (old game such as deus ex or Thief falls in this category), sometimes worse but still playable just fine (skyrim, dishonored) , sometimes a game just won't run or run in unplayable state (gods eater) . Really depends on the game.

On tomb raider 2, I check protondb to see if the game will run on proton (proton is basically wine released and sponsored by valve) and over there people say to play it using wine since it works better. So I guess you can play tomb raider 2 on Linux using wine

There are various resources that'll give you an idea of how well a game will work under wine. Here on gog, we have The "Judas does this run in Wine" thread v1.173, where our very own adamhm reported back in 2016 that Tomb Raider 2 works pretty much "Perfect".

There's also the WineHQ App DB, where the results are less encouraging, as the game get only a "Bronze" rating due to issues with keyboard keys being "sticky". It might be that that's a regression, and that by using an older Wine version, you'll get the nearly perfect experience adamhm described. It might also be that there's an external factor that causes that particular issue, and that you'll either have it or you won't.

So, no sure thing, but worth a try.

Thanks for Your giveaway.I have a linux in my second laptop.This is Deepin.

I am in for:

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition Deluxe


Thanks :)

Merry Christmas adamhm !  Thank you for promoting Linux, helping other members and being so generous !  :-)

If you don't mind, I'd like to be in for the following games :

 ▪  Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
 ▪  State of Mind

Why not try some of my Wine wrappers and see how they perform?

Also with the 19.3 update my guide now includes a list with a variety of options for using Wine/Proton that also don't require any Wine knowledge :)

In many cases Wine does work better with older games. Some games work better in Wine due to using old APIs that Microsoft has deprecated and subsequently removed or broken, in other cases they run better because of things like graphics driver differences between Windows & Linux.

In the case of TR2 in particular, I just had a quick look at it using GOGWrap (my generic Wine/Proton wrapper script) with Proton 4.11-11 and it looks like it works fine, more or less. When using the setup tool the main window needs to be moved out of the way (as it did the last time I tested it), but other than that there doesn't seem to be any issues so far.

Thank you all for answeing my questions.

I'd like to enter for:

> Consortium: Master Edition

Thank you for your continuous Linux support and another great giveaway, adamhm!

I'm in for:

> Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
> The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition Deluxe
> Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition
> Blade Runner
> Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
> UnderRail
> SteamWorld Heist + DLC
> SWAT 4: Gold Edition

The giveaway is now closed, winners will be chosen & keys sent out as soon as I can

Thanks again adamhm for SteamWorld Heist and congrats to all the winners !

Thank you very much for Jazz Jackrabbit, adamhm. Congrats to other winners, and Merry Christmas all!