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Have you considered using VNC or PuTTY/Xming to remotely run applications in your Windows environment? If you want to keep it all on one machine you could even use VMs. Build a media center, web server or even certain game servers. Find tasks that you do and automate them. It\'s coming. Forget rumors, hear it straight from Valve. It\'s really up to the engine developers. Though with more and more titles appearing on the iOS and Android platforms, we\'re already seeing a significant uptake in some form of OpenGL usage.

Once you realize how much time you can save by automating stuff, bash scripting is amazing. Using the screen utility you can even run a program in the background and have another script send commands to it - I did that a lot when automating backups on my old Minecraft server. With some simple code (and a bunch of friends building stuff) I put together this timelapse: @Accelerando: How about actually learning something instead of derailing the subject? Ydoow\'s talking about using shell scripting to make launching a program in Linux easier. You can do the same thing in OS X (it is a kind of UNIX at heart) or similar things with batch files/PowerShell in Windows.