I dual boot, between Win XP and Linux Mint. I have to load up Windows for a lot of the games though.

Hello ThermioN, in my computer Adobe Flash runs fine but it was hard to install. First of all your Ubuntu version is 64 bit or 32 bit?

If you don't know how to look this go to the Ubuntu console and write:
uname -m

If the answer is
i686: you have the 32 bit version
x86_64: you have installed the 64 bit version.

Your statement about Banshee is correct but absurd just erase it and install rhythmbox . I did that.

Try disabling hardware acceleration, which Adobe seems to have made the default in recent builds and is rather buggy.

Longtime OpenSUSE user here.

I'll use FreeBSD, which ain't Linux, praise be to the Daemons (or Debian or Ubuntu Server, if it has to be Linux) for server and appliance (text console only, no desktop) setups.

But for a big workstation with a KDE desktop and everything including the kitchen sink installed and kept up to date, gimme OpenSUSE.

Ubuntu 11.04. And don't forget Android. I have CyanogenMod 7 running on my NookColor.

Don't forget, if you're reading this thread and you have an Android phone, you have linux.

It's better to try another solution before that.

It's also better to name/describe/link to these other solutions rather than vaguely alluding to them :P

Disabling hardware acceleration was the only way I could get Flash to behave and stop showing where it shouldn't.

Did you install flash player using the console?

For the 64 bit version (see above) write this

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-installer
then
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash
then
sudo apt-get update
then
sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer

I have a GOG.mix where I report about the games how they run with Linux - with tips to get something working that doesn't work out of the box or tell which games I didn't get tun run, so far: Linux (Wine, native DOSbox).

Many games run out of the box with wine. Some need to have some wine tweaking (wine config) and I run all the DOSBox games with the Lionux native DOSBox and a custom shell script.

One important thing for Linux newbies: Linux file/path names are case sensitive. For this reason, Magic Carpet didn't work with the default dosboxMC.conf. I had to figure out the correct path and file name cases and adjust them in the config file.

Yes..

Linux as in the kernel. It lacks a *nix userland. :(

Been using Kubuntu for a couple years, but only started using it as my primary OS recently. Switched to Lubuntu this year and am considering a move to Debian.

You have terminal in most cases, or at least with a root. Good enough for me. And as the topic was 'Linux Users', and Linux is nothing more than a kernel, Android is valid.

I have finally found a way how to fix two bash related bugs in Ubuntu 11.04:

History may not work because a) there's no ~/.bash_history file at all or b) you don't have sufficient privileges to alter the file. Auto-Completion may only work if you comment every line in the auto-completion section in ~/.bashrc and /etc/bash.bashrc.

Another Slackware user here. Slack with Fluxbox on my ancient laptop and my netbook, with KDE 4 on my main desktop. (Yeah, I do like KDE 4, despite its shaky start. And on Slackware it really does run smoothly.)

I still game primarily on Windows, but I'm slowly transitioning over, and any game I make is for Linux first. :D