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Is anyone using Debian Sid for gaming? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by lal309@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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Well I’m hopping around… again. I thought I had a good stable setup going but then something happens upstream that goes against what I want/believe in (looking at you RedHat) and I’m back on the hunt again.

I thought about trying out a Debian based distro but then I thought “why don’t I just use Debian itself (Sid, not stable/Bookworm)”.

Most if not all gaming software have a way to be installed on Debian so I don’t think that could be an issue.

Is anyone else using Sid? Am I missing something by not going with a gaming focused distro??

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[–] hogart@feddit.nu 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm as new on Linux as one can get. Installed Nobara a week ago on my laptop. Steam Deck got me to wanna try Linux on my PCs. Claims to install a lot of what I would need in its package. Seems to work so far. Not based on Debian tho.

[–] lal309@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was running Nobara and had a rock solid setup. My problem was more related to the upstream changes by RedHat. Haven’t tried SteamOS

[–] hogart@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are those? Just trying to dip my toes and understand small bits and taking it slow. Thanks in advance.

[–] lal309@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nobara is an rpm base distro so this link goes over the changes I’m referring to. Nothing wrong with Nobara, it’s just a matter of principles for me

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/