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Debian testing for gaming? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by Mair@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm on arch currently (with an RX 7600 and R5 3600) and its a good experience, but I find myself wanting many of the .deb packages available on Debian, and trawling the AUR makes me nervous

would Debian testing give me a good gaming experience? I run all of my packages off of flatpak anyway, and would continue to do so on Debian

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[–] dark_stang@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I used to run debian testing, but as the branch name implies you will experience the occasional break. If you're doing straight gaming, Arch seems like the distro to be on. I game and work (dev stuff) on my machines so I run pop_os (with xanmod kernel).

[–] Mair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

honestly arch has treated me well, its just that I'm having a certified arch moment trying to get a VPN working and thought about how much easier it is on other distros that dont throw you to the terminal dogs

[–] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How is that any easier on Debian to get a VPN going? Usually it's exactly the same, just the package name is different (if even that)

[–] Kristof12@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Mostly he's going to have problems on native packages, but if he uses flatpak, it's not so many problems to deal with

[–] EveningNewbs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Pop is great for gaming, and part of the reason I picked it was so I'd have access to more software packages. No regrets.