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Switching to Debian on my gaming pc
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this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2023
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Debian is great for gaming just takes a little work. I run Debian sid and that has its pros and cons but I do it to have super updated packages and to help report bugs. But running stable with a mix of flatpaks and backports works great as well.
Debian is great since it's just super vanilla packages from upstream for you to make it the way you want it.
Thanks for your comment! I am going to try stable for a while and see how it goes... worst case I can switch to a different distro.
if stable gets too stale (heh) for you, you can always move to sid
this is where im at. installed stable a few weeks ago while its relatively fresh. ready to upgrade to sid if i ever need more than flatpak