Sort of new to the whole Linux gaming thing, I have been frustrated with Micro and wish Apple was a little more open with their hardware choices. That being said my main machine runs all 3 with the latest addition being Ubuntu w/ KDE or I guess KUBUNTU. I use a multi-monitor solution and the Unity Bar was driving me nuts in the middle although there were several things I liked about Unity that I think does better than KDE.

As far as gaming on Linux. I wanted to see if I could game for a year (minus my MMOs since I didn't really want to go down the Wine Road) without too much trouble. It's been a fun experiment going on about 4 months now or so. I find that I flip to either OSX or Win7 less and less. With my last reboot was only to patch and play a little LOTRO, before that it had been over a month ago.
There were many things that sparked this idea, but one of them was SteamOS and the idea of gaming without DX (which I know Micro will require everyone to update to 9 comes to have access to DX12.) OpenGL has made some great strides over the last few years and wanted to see how it was progressing hands on compared to DX11. Now I have had to jump through a few hoops to get some things to work, but it's been fun and relearning computing has been exciting since I have haven't really had to do any of that since my Amiga days. I know that is isn't for everyone, but since I'm an IT Professional by trade it's been exciting to get through those hoops. Now I'm even considering trying out Wine to see what else I can get to work ;-)

Sorry little lengthy...sum up
1. Frustrated with Micro and their lack of PC Game Support (The Company not Windows although frustrated with Windows too for other reasons ex. Win8).
2. Wanted to try more Open Source Stuff.
3. Have enjoyed my experimenting and continue to do so.
4. Linux is Solid and open hardware...no BSDs.

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