Loved the ending, can't believe I gave those guys 5 years of my life. The pay was good, thats all I can say was good.
I take it you have heard of crossover office and WineX ? They are both built on WINE, but crossover allows more native windows apps to run on Linux, and WineX allows DirectX games to run on linux
check them out if you havent already, downside is they are not free
