I’m ditching Ubuntu. Thinking of switching to Debian.

Has anyone used this, or something similar to set up their Debian gaming setup?

This got me thinking. Do I need to install anything special to Debian 13 to be able to play games? Or can I play them with a normal Debian out of the box?

  • Allero@lemmy.today
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    15 hours ago

    I’m quite concerned that it’s based on Debian sid of all things. Doesn’t it break once in a while?

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      6 hours ago

      Not that I’ve noticed, but isn’t that part of the territory? Like do latest Nvidia graphics drivers not sometimes break on Windows? My experience is that they certainly do. If you want perfect tried and tested stability, you have to sacrifice the ability to run the latest games using the latest features. This is a tradeoff you have to make. Which would be better? I’d run stable on servers, and latest on desktop, which is… what we’re doing here, right?

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        12 hours ago

        Honestly, even testing has its issues. For one, security updates are not applied to Debian Testing in a timely manner. They first appear in Stable, and then in Testing.

        Maybe people need to accept that sid and testing are made for developers, not end users.