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Heroic launcher takes care of both GOG and Epic, no worries.
I don't know kubuntu that well, just be aware that certain graphics cards will require a more bleeding edge distro. People have been swearing by Bazzite, CachyOS and Nobara lately.
I use Arch btw
Oh fuck, looks like I won't be going Linux for gaming anytime soon. Sound Blaster AE-9, almost 400€ soundcard with all the upgrades on OPAMPS that I absolutely love. Doesn't work AT ALL so I had to pair BT earbuds so I even have sound. Radeon Software. Doesn't even exist in Linux. Like, it's just not even there. Which means features like AFMF, Radeon Chill, frame limiting, all that I use in Windows for my RX 9070 XT, just doesn't exist. AT ALL. Marvel Rivals, doesn't just work "out of the box". So far this has absolutely not been a fun experience and given that soundcard situation and graphic card control panel or shall I say its lack of that's inherently "that's just how it is on Linux", yeah well, it seems this will never change. And I can blame Creative for being ass with drivers which is their unique shtick, but to not have features for my Radeon that make Radeon unique and why I love it, that's just unacceptable and makes it entirely useless.
I'll stick with Windows on this one and Linux on all my other systems where I love Linux since I don't need anything advance, it just works fine out of the box there. But for this PC, just entirely useless.
EDIT: What in the fuck is this? Steam needs fucking 5 minutes to run and it's literally stalling my entire system to a halt so that I can't do ANYTHING with it during that time. Oh, you clicked Library, lets stall for another 15 seconds for no fucking reason and I still can't see the fucking library, it's just black rectangle. I'm running a god damn 5800X3D with 64GB RAM and Kubuntu is installed on a dedicated fast SSD. This is just unacceptable.
I don't know what's going on with your steam install to take this much time to log you in, but it looks like your Linux install is left with some dangling parts.
First, we need to be clear if we're talking about Torvald's Linux vs Microsoft's Windows... or a bunch of company that don't give a fuck about you.
Sound boards, GPU and all this insane amount of hardware runs on Linux better than any Microsoft thing may ever hope to. Your issue with your sound card is not Linux... it's called "Creative".
There are way to develop sound cards and have them working on day -1 (even a day before it's release)... and way to put trick and trinkets in the binary blob without documenting anything (or, more precisely, keeping purposely hidden, since you always need source code to make binaries blob). In this case the Linux community rip and tear every detail by their own: the time took is never Linux or Linux's community but, put more plainly, just the company who took your money and said to you " oh! So you want to run this thing on your Linux install? Well, what about: fuck you! Is that OK?"
Yeah, well, AMD has great support and it doesn't even have the control panel for Linux and I can't use Radeon Chill or AFMF at all. It's just not even there. A 900€ graphic card I can't really utilize fully. I know Creative is being Creative, but this is a very high end soundcard that I wouldn't replace for anything.
The Linux install was as clean as one could get as I just installed it. As expected, I just don't have the time or nerves to deal with any of this BS. I just want to play games when I come from work and that's that. I still love Linux on all my multimedia devices all over my house that work perfectly and I wouldn't ever use Windows on those again. But for this one, I'm just gonna stick with Windows as much as I hate Microsoft's BS.
Some day in the future I might own a SteamDeck or even re-try Linux as my main OS, but that time just isn't now yet.
If you pick hardware/features from company that don't support your OS of choice, I don't see this to happened, not just in future, but ever. Just picture someone buying software/hardware for Sony's FreeBSD (PlayStation) and expecting it to work on Windows: this doesn't make any sense.
Linux is an insane exception to this because it's the Linux community of engineers who reverse engineered. It's not about wait for "Linux has to be ready", but be sure the money you thrown at your hardware are well spent.
If AMD company suddenly shut down, your hardware on Windows is just an unsecured brick which in few years become useless. On Linux it will be always supported, bug fixed and updated thanks to OpenSource drivers.