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[–] chocrates@piefed.world 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Debian is stable meaning it has ancient packages. I'd try on a distro that tracks more recent packages

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

deb 13 was bleeding edge in June

[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Debian 13 was a new Debian release in June. Meaning the devs and sid/unstable users had done enough to determine that the sometimes 5 year old "new features" in the packages were stable.

I love Debian for it's stability. Makes it great in the homelab. The devs will back port security patches from upstream, but features (especially potentially breaking features) get years of testing before being implemented in the stable release. Even sid (their testing branch) is more stable than most other distros main branch.

But all of that means that the actual features in the packages released for Debian are ancient, especially by gaming standards.

Which is to say, Debian 13, at the time of release, had about as much bleeding edge as a stone sphere.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

Debian 13, at the time of release, had about as much bleeding edge as a stone sphere.

As a diehard Debian fan - how dare you call out my favorite distro so accurately!

Haha!

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

it had the very latest gnome and kde releases at the time it finished. I'm sure there are dozens of other packages for which this is true. by Debian standards it was anomalously current. I find it hard to believe there are serious gaps that make even 2025 games unplayable.

edit: speaking, of course, in comparison to other 2025 distros