Not necessarily. I know I would much prefer to be able to game under Linux. Unfortunately there are problems with WINE for gaming. It's always %99 there but with some major flaw that ruins it. And the performance might have some issues. But for someone who only plays WoW it's fine.The main thing is that WINE will improve, so the %99 turns into %100 and the performance is about the same as under windows. It is already happening, for example Borderlands which was only recently released, was almost completely fine with one a few graphical glitches. There's already plenty of work on DX10.Also for older games WINE might become the only way to play them. I doubt Windows 8 will have a Windows XP compatibility mode. So if you want to pull out a copy of Dragon Age in 15 years time you might only be able to play on Linux.Performance might always be slightly behind, but if your playing an older game it won't matter. Newer stuff might not be that far behind. Things like just in time compilers come along and allow for running script code at near native speeds, maybe we will see something like that for WINE. Maybe someone will figure out a way to get DX running natively on the cards without an OpenGL wrapping layer or a way to thread binary code.Personally I would love to see some virtualization that works with the graphics cards so I can just boot a lite Windows install in the background.