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by finghin 40 days ago
I recently noticed the bloat building and building. It came to the fore when I tried to install Kerbal Space Program on my T14s gen 2. I don’t really play video games, and I thought the incredibly slow performance and crashes were down to my hardware, since why would a 5 year old mid-range notebook be able to play this (probably badly optimised) 3D game?

As an afterthought I downloaded Steam and played on Debian. Worked out of the box. No crashes. Minimum of 30fps, most of the time around 50-60. It was more than playable, enough to be pretty fun.