Been kicking it with Linux a bit more since I’ve gotten my DAC working perfectly. Last night’s stress test was Serious Sam 3, which was pretty laggy in some places compared to my Windows 7 install of it. TF2 was more optimized but still had a bit of trouble on 2Fort near the water ONLY if other people were nearby, after awhile it would subside at least.
Also got my mp3 player working under this. I did find out why I wasn’t getting any sound under World Of Goo. I noticed I had the same problem under other programs like VLC Media Player. Turns out they were stuck on the audio codec for my Sound Blaster XFi and they weren’t using the USB Dual Pre. Changed that and it worked perfectly. So now I’m gaming, blogging, reading and listening to 80’s death metal under Ubuntu with KDE workspace.