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Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop Gaming Performance Comparison

Using KDE Plasma led to another performance dip for Reaction Quake 3.

Smokin' Guns also experienced a performance drop on KDE Plasma 4.9.98 while the other desktops ran close to the same speed.

The SuperTuxKart game didn't see any change in performance between the seven tested desktops on Ubuntu 13.04 x86_64.