Boredom surfaced, I play games on Linux. There are whole bunch of little games on Ubuntu (thanks to the debian repositories). But for last year or so, games like barrage, lbreakout have been the 'regulars'. lbreakout2, especially, has a very good interface and gameplay.

Loki games (nonexistent now) has a ported version of SimCity 3000 Unlimited for Linux. The Windows version of it was very popular. I remember sitting hours together building a simulated City, laying a bit thick on finding solutions for the disasters and problems that surfaced on the simulation ;) Thank goodness, I never had my own computer then... otherwise, "hours" would easily have been "days" - such is the addictiveness of this game.

Recently, there have been a multitude of games that not only run efficiently on Linux, but are as good as the Windows versions. The last one I tried was a demo of Doom (the latest version I guess), and it worked real smooth. The same is with Quake, America Army Operations (all run pretty well on Linux). Ubuntu itself comes with a range of lovely arcade games (not by default, one has to download from its universe, multiverse repository). Maybe the coming days would really see Linux as a choice for desktop in day to day usage. :)