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Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop Gaming Performance Comparison

The OpenArena 0.8.8 results aren't really surprising now: the lightweight desktop environments led to the best performance, although it's a bit surprising Enlightenment wasn't running any faster.

Ditto.

There was little difference in the Prey id Tech 4 results aside from Unity running slower than the rest. Using the KDE Plasma 4.10 pre-release also led to a dip in the frame-rate.