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Switching to Debian on my gaming pc (lemmy.one)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone - I have been wanting to ditch windows on my gaming pc for a while now, and since I have recently finished a large project, I now have the free time to switch. I am relatively comfortable with Debian having used it for a while on my web server as well as school laptop, but I am concerned about using it on my gaming computer since I have heard stock Debian is not the greatest for gaming. All of my other daily driver programs I know will work, so I am mainly concerned with the gaming aspect.

In the case that you don't recommend Debian for my gaming computer, do you have an OS that you would recommend?

I appreciate any insight!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (12 children)

I’m using Debian testing + a few packages from experimental (Mesa) and xanmod or liquorix kernel.

It’s been a great experience. Stable as expected, performant as anything else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (11 children)

You probably have your reason to run Debian testing but I read somewhere that testing is somehow a bad idea as desktop environment !

If somehing is stuck and being updated in sid, and bugs are still happening, you could be stuck for month without the correct update in testing.

Sorry if it's not clear, but I read it somewhere in the official debian documentation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Debian testing is insanely robust. I am currently not running it (testing) because I use it for work, but my past experience has been excellent.

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