{"id":283474,"date":"2026-06-29T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/drauger-os-7-8-aims-to-turn-ubuntu-into-a-gaming-linux-distro-with-kde-plasma\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:30:08","slug":"drauger-os-7-8-aims-to-turn-ubuntu-into-a-gaming-linux-distro-with-kde-plasma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/drauger-os-7-8-aims-to-turn-ubuntu-into-a-gaming-linux-distro-with-kde-plasma\/","title":{"rendered":"Drauger OS 7.8 aims to turn Ubuntu into a gaming Linux distro with KDE Plasma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/drauger-os-aims-to-turn-ubuntu-into-a-gaming-linux-distro-with-kde-plasma\/\">Drauger OS 7.8 aims to turn Ubuntu into a gaming Linux distro with KDE Plasma<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/drauger-os-aims-to-turn-ubuntu-into-a-gaming-linux-distro-with-kde-plasma\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/drauger-os-aims-to-turn-ubuntu-into-a-gaming-linux-distro-with-kde-plasma\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-29 01:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        Drauger OS 7.8 (Urgal) is an Ubuntu-based gaming spin focused on performance and gaming features.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Ships with Linux kernel 7.0 for improved performance and day-one NTSYNC support.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        KDE Plasma 6.5 on Wayland; Firefox as a Flatpak &#8211; more VRR\/HDR support and no &#8216;snappy&#8217; nonsense.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the coolest things about the Linux community is that, if someone wants to make a distro that achieves a very specific goal, they can roll up their sleeves and make it themselves. We&#8217;ve seen this in the past as developers build distros that put gaming first, but not all of them decided to use Ubuntu as the core.<\/p>\n<p>Well, as it turns out, there is a distro out there that uses Canonical&#8217;s operating system to create a gaming-based system, and while it&#8217;s still being fleshed out, it&#8217;s already looking interesting.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"drauger-os-7-8-adds-some-new-features-to-the-ubuntu-based-gaming-os\">\n                        Drauger OS 7.8 adds some new features to the Ubuntu-based gaming OS<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"plus-less-39-snappy-nonsense-39\">\n            Plus, less &#8216;snappy nonsense&#8217;<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>        Credit:\u00a0Drauger OS<\/p>\n<p>As spotted by Linuxiac, the developers of Drauger OS have announced a new version over on their official subreddit. Drauger OS 7.8, codename &#8216;Urgal&#8217;,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/drauger-os-aims-to-turn-ubuntu-into-a-gaming-linux-distro-with-kde-plasma\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drauger OS 7.8 aims to turn Ubuntu into a gaming Linux distro with KDE Plasma&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/06\/steam-hardware-survey-and-rtx-4070-ti-gaming-pc.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,79],"class_list":["post-283474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283476,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283474\/revisions\/283476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}