Installed Ubuntu 15.10 on a hard drive, set to dual boot. I updated it completely and then installed Steam. Downloaded Borderlands 2, a little more demanding than Silent Hunter 4, and ran it. I couldn't tell the difference in how fast it ran from Windows. It runs absolutely magnificently and I couldn't be happier. Getting back with the Synaptic Package Manager was like coming home again after several months away.
Ubuntu runs like a scalded dog compared to Windows on my machine. Now comes the nuts and bolts about running Silent Hunter 4, which has no Linux version like Borderlands 2. We'll see how it goes! So far this is great and the first time I've done serious gaming under Linux. I'm totally stoked how well Borderlands 2 ran considering all the naysayers saying that without Directx, Ubuntu would be more than twice as slow. So much for that fallacy.
Can't wait for the next step.
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