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I'm pretty sure you CAN play Counterstrike on Linux. Half-Life works through Wine. The opening menus are screwed-up looking and a little slow, but the game itself works flawlessly. Just fire it up through Wine and join a Counterstrike game. I used to play Team Fortress Classic on Linux all the time.
Oh, and by the way dhamsaic, none of your screenshot links worked for me. What's up?
For web browing in Linux, I love Konqueror. It loads so freaking fast! Another great thing about Konqueror -- you know how when you want to type in a new url into the address bar, you have to move your mouse to highlight the address that's already there, and delete it, then click in the little address space to change cursor focus, and then type your url? Well, with Konqueror, you just have this little 'X' icon next to the address bar. Click it, and the address field is automatically emptied and the cursor focus is switched to the address bar, complete with blinking cursor. One left mouse-click, and you've done all of the above. Okay, I know you're thinking, "So freaking what? Come on juju, are you really that lazy??" Well, quite frankly, yes! It's less mouse movements, less clicks, and less button-presses. Click one icon and start typing the url. I love that feature! :]
Another great Konqueror feature is that you can set allow or deny rules for java, javscript, and cookies for specific domains. So, you could turn java or javascript or cookies off for all sites, but allow them for your bank (or vice versa). Also, you can leave javascript on but turn javascript popups off. Really useful for porn or warez sites (not that i visit those). :]
For e-mail, I use kmail. A lot of people seem to be searching for the "perfect e-mail client". I don't really get this -- what exactly are people's exorbiant e-mail needs? It either receives your e-mail or it doesn't, right? Anyway, kmail loads fairly quickly as long as the kde libs are already loaded, and it's similar enough to Outlook that I can make my way around it pretty easily.
oh oh..and gaim is not only a good aim client..it's an awesome one. It has plugins for irc, icq, msn, yahoo, and several other im protocols that i have no clue about. The newest version even does aol buddy icons.
Anyway.. unless you're playing games or composing Word 2000 documents (staroffice reads Word 97 documents), there's no reason you can't be using Linux as your desktop. Other than the fact that it's hard to learn, of course. :]
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