Actually we did very little PC games. Some, sure, but not much. My roommate and I had the most machines - 8 between the two of us, including two laptops - were only very nerds who had tons of projects. I was a computer science student, who was electrical engineering. I always had my Linux file server, another computer running Windows that has worked bitch like downloading files or playing movies, while I did the actual work on the host computer, etc, and my roommate uses a similar settings to experiment with new things or distribute computational load.