Thanks, those websites are great.  To be honest, it's surprised me I'm even considering games. After all, I only replaced XP to see if LXLE could breathe life into my dead netbook- I wasn't sure what I'd do with it.

Turns out I've not used the recently bought windows 8 family PC since!  I've realised I can do everything my PC can do but much more enjoyably with LXLE

I like professionally put together 90's style games that don't take much of my time.  Stuff like chicken invaders is perfect for me!   And I've had a second go at reinstalling playonlinux - this time the winetricks menu has appeared and works brilliantly.  I also like familiar 90's classic strategy games, and now I have access to plenty

Whatever OS I use, with these specs I'm looking at low-end resource gaming....and linux caters extremely well.    Now that steam supports linux...the only gaming I can't do with my netbook....could be fine if I installed LXLE 64 bit on my desktop....

I'm very tempted to do that, but a bit nervous ( I'm still only half way through paying for it, and it wasn't cheap!)

I'm married with 3 teenagers.   My wife used the new PC once and didn't like it (she now has an ipad and loves it).  Two of my kids don't like it either, leaving one who loves it because he is a steam addict!

My own take on Windows8 is that they tried to push a touchscreen/tablet OS design onto a traditional desktop environment with a  mouse...and nobody tested it!

It's a shame about the secure boot thing with windows 8 - I'd love to be able to dual boot, but having googled it, I'm not confident enough I'd get it right

My last thought on LXLE - this forum is quiet...because LXLE just works! Hardly anyone needs help!

Well done, and many thanks again

I'm working my way through them thanks...and so far they are all great games.  They are slick and professional, and work great on the netbook.  I'm also pleased to have found Open Sonic!

My first attempts at gaming weren't so good. The software centre is slow. Synaptic seems much quicker, but it seems old fashioned - and I found it hard to get a feel for what you are downloading before you install it.  You can download a screenshot, although that didnt work for me.   I think that's why I prefer the two websites you shared

Some of the games I installed didn't then appear in the games menu.  I like shooters.....I've discovered that I can get Geki2 to work by typing that name into the terrninal.   I've tried the menu editor but I couldn't figure out how to get Geki2 in there properly.   And the game is windowed.  When a game has no configeration options.....is there a way to force full screen ?  There are probably several games I've installed but can't remember what they were called that aren't in the menus....

But yes, now I've spent more time looking into gaming, it's clear there is more than enough to keep me happy.  I've even managed to get my simcity3000 going with playonlinux......