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I'm moving away from Windows and I'm looking for distro for coding and occasional gaming. If more context is needed please let me know.

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[–] KeBaBeeN@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Windows main here but occasionally use Debian, why do you think almost noone in this post recommend Debian? As far as I can tell it works great.

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

it's just my opinion, but I think because it's LTS and has a philosophy behind the OS that doesn't ring well with hardcore modding.

I kinda feel that Debian is sort of the "boomer OS" in the community; it just works, the way it works, it's the "easy route" (if it makes any sense). also, some people doesn't like APT or initd, I don't know what's up with nVidia drivers on Debian, or the support for any other super proprietary stuff.

you also don't always get the freshest of stuff with it.

I personally love Debian, but granted that I haven't tried out the whole Linux repertoire and I really don't need too exotic stuff in my life if it's about my main computer.

but to me, for developing, working, browsing the web, fuck around with documents, consuming media, networking etc etc., is more than perfect.

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

I think it's just too stable, doesn't get updates that often. That can be detrimental for gaming, leading to having to install up to date drivers yourself.