It was hard to write this review because once I got some games installed in Cedega, I didn't want to stop playing them. I was pretty disappointed by Cedega at first because the games I really wanted to play -- the old Final Fantasy PC games and the FF11 MMORPG -- wouldn't work, and even with my feeble votes going toward them, there's no hope of playing them on GNU/Linux in the near future.

  I find myself wondering just how much more work it would take to completely emulate the Windows 9X environment. Will that work continue in the face of a Windows Vista release next month, with new games focusing their development on newer editions of DirectX and the Windows API? I hope so, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting to find out.

  The bottom line is that Cedega will work with enough Windows games that it's worth paying $5 a month for, particularly if you like playing games like World of Warcraft, FlatOut, and a host of others (check out the compatibility list to see if your favorite games are supported), but can't stand Windows. At this point in my computing life, I consider GNU/Linux a necessity for desktop computing, so products like Cedega and CrossOver Office are also a necessity if I absolutely need some program that doesn't have a GNU/Linux port. I like Cedega so much that I bought my own user account beyond the month I was given for the review. I don't at all mind supporting TransGaming's work to bring Windows games to GNU/Linux.