After years of infrequent dabbling in Linux, And a large pile of Kubuntu Live Cd's and Dvd's. I noticed a blog stating that there was a new Linux Steam version, About a year after it's release i might add. So i decided that since it's winter, And am bored, I will try several Linux distro's and see if any of them suit me.
This turned out to be the top ten distro's meant for Linux gaming. And I kept finding distro's with broken functions, Or just a pain in the butt to use.
At the very end of my list was Kubuntu, Because i wanted to give the other ones a fair shake - Not including Ubuntu, Because i hate gnome.
So installation went very fast, And everything worked, Other than windows networking of course, Because Microcrap firewalled it.
Desktop alterations were very quick and easy. And i managed to find everything in the system settings, Except task scheduler, Which i had to add manually. Oh and a sound normalizer.
Then the big final test... Steam. Natively supported games ran right away, No matter which drive I ran them from. However non native supported games such as doom would close on launch.
Two days of setting up permissions, And using different drive formats on a second drive proved useless. And in the end i just dumped Doom into my Linux/steam folder, As a last ditch attempt, And it works!
Holy crap, I can't believe it. And with a twenty percent performance increase over Win 10. So evidently steams support for non native games has some kind of problem accessing external, Or extra drives.
But that problem in no way influences my opinion of Kubuntu. In fact, If my system were going to crash, It would have done it during that nightmare.
Overall, After everything I did this past week. I still have to say that Kubuntu is my favorite Linux distro. And I am very happy with version 19.10.
So the final test was to install it on all of my systems, Fully replacing Win 10. And it runs flawlessly. I even have a computer in my workshop running Kubuntu, I found replacements for the netflix client - electronplayer. And stremio to replace those windows store apps that let you watch movies. And a lot more.
So it's finally happened in 2020.
Windows 10 Spyware is finally gone. All of my games run great. And the only computer left is my wifes, And she's starting to see a huge performance difference between her computer and mine. So it won't be long before she finally learns to use Kubuntu.
Great job creating a solid distro guys, Even plasma is running great, Which was a deal breaker when it first came out.
Anyway, I am happy at last. Thank you.
This turned out to be the top ten distro's meant for Linux gaming. And I kept finding distro's with broken functions, Or just a pain in the butt to use.
At the very end of my list was Kubuntu, Because i wanted to give the other ones a fair shake - Not including Ubuntu, Because i hate gnome.
So installation went very fast, And everything worked, Other than windows networking of course, Because Microcrap firewalled it.
Desktop alterations were very quick and easy. And i managed to find everything in the system settings, Except task scheduler, Which i had to add manually. Oh and a sound normalizer.
Then the big final test... Steam. Natively supported games ran right away, No matter which drive I ran them from. However non native supported games such as doom would close on launch.
Two days of setting up permissions, And using different drive formats on a second drive proved useless. And in the end i just dumped Doom into my Linux/steam folder, As a last ditch attempt, And it works!
Holy crap, I can't believe it. And with a twenty percent performance increase over Win 10. So evidently steams support for non native games has some kind of problem accessing external, Or extra drives.
But that problem in no way influences my opinion of Kubuntu. In fact, If my system were going to crash, It would have done it during that nightmare.
Overall, After everything I did this past week. I still have to say that Kubuntu is my favorite Linux distro. And I am very happy with version 19.10.
So the final test was to install it on all of my systems, Fully replacing Win 10. And it runs flawlessly. I even have a computer in my workshop running Kubuntu, I found replacements for the netflix client - electronplayer. And stremio to replace those windows store apps that let you watch movies. And a lot more.
So it's finally happened in 2020.
Windows 10 Spyware is finally gone. All of my games run great. And the only computer left is my wifes, And she's starting to see a huge performance difference between her computer and mine. So it won't be long before she finally learns to use Kubuntu.
Great job creating a solid distro guys, Even plasma is running great, Which was a deal breaker when it first came out.
Anyway, I am happy at last. Thank you.
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