Playing windows games on a linux laptop

So for X-mas I will be getting a new laptop. I want to put a Linux distro (most likely untubu) on it. But the only reason I am hesitant to doing so is that I love to play different online games, but I hate windows, and most of the games are just for that OS. Ive seen some solutions to the problem (http://www.transgaming.com/products_linux.php , http://www.winehq.org/) but I have no idea if they work well, or even work for that matter. Also, witch Linux distro should I go with? I just want something that will be easy to use (meaning almost no programming required) and will work well with a fast laptop. This is the laptop I am planning to get: http://www.cyberpowersystem.com/system/ntbkx648000.asp?v=d . Thanks for any help.

ATI's linux drivers support is beyond crap, so I wouldn't recommend installing linux on it to play windows games.

also, lol linux.

I wouldn't recommend playing Windows games on Linux. Depending on the game, it will either work badly or not at all. More and more games are being ported to Linux though, so you might find your favourites have Linux versions available. Pretty much anything from id and Atari gets a Linux version these days, so you're sorted if it's FPS you need. If not, well you're free to spend days at a time dicking about with Wine. You could also warez Cedega (the closed-source ripoff of Wine).

Oh and as for distros, I've found that Ubuntu is very sexy on a laptop.

I hate windows (am i cool, now?)

Why not dual boot?  I know XP doesn't exactly like to be dual booted, but if you set it up right, you'd be perfectly fine.

Wine doesn't emulate Direct3d very well

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That's where Cedega (formerly WineX) does: implements, much more maturely, DirectX.  It's a subscription-based software, but CVS updates are free (and you can get the entire thing from the CVS reposity for free too).