Thanks for your interest: Ubuntu is certainly a "lighter" system than OpenSUSE which is more complex, and it does most likely run on your laptop, too, as well as Steam which has Ubuntu as the most supported of Linux's systems. However, whether the Steam games will be running well depends largely on the graphic chip and its memory. For instance, I have MINT installed on my laptop (2.44GHz, 1GB RAM max) which I prefer to XP on this old machine, but running games via Steam is not too extraordinary due to the insufficient video RAM.
OpenSUSE (w/ KDE desktop) which I know from previous installments (11.4, 12.3) I prefer though it might not be the easiest Linux OS to begin with, and I installed it now parallelly on my well-resourced Windows 7 PC to be used as alternate system on boot (easy thing provided giving it an unpartitioned disk drive, and until you want to uninstall it again which usually ruins the booting routine...).
The good in all those Linux OS is that you can also be running them in Live mode or as demo before installing, and MINT even from inside Windows, so you can get an idea how it will look like.
Yup, I was just about buying some new MS points--but better so, at least one can properly judge the price of a game, and there won't be never used leftover points, either...
@truthtellah: Thank you: No, no Witcher 3, nor AC IV, and as concerns the honorable "worst US company" title I'd honestly prefer seeing neither EA, nor MS getting it attributed, it is just that I felt a lot of disgust concerning the Seattle giant these days, this is why I dared "guessing" here...
@psylah: Unfortunately yes, but nonetheless there is a lot of creativity and enthusiasm among young designers of video games. For instance, Mercury Steam just released Castlevania MoF on 3DS.
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