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I'm ditching Ubuntu. Thinking of switching to Debian.

Has anyone used this, or something similar to set up their Debian gaming setup?

This got me thinking. Do I need to install anything special to Debian 13 to be able to play games? Or can I play them with a normal Debian out of the box?

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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If you’re using Nvidia graphics I suggest this piece of documentation for driver installation.

Essentially if you’re running Debian 13 (Trixie) then run these commands;

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security contrib non-free main non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie-updates non-free-firmware non-free contrib main

sudo apt update -y
sudo apt full-upgrade -y

sudo apt install linux-headers-generic nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-driver
nvidia-cuda-dev nvidia-cuda-toolkit

sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt autoremove -y
sudo reboot

Optional for RTX graphics cards, this enables the ray-tracing engine.

sudo apt install libnvoptix1

Just remember to disable secureboot if you haven’t already, otherwise the driver module will fail to start when you boot your computer likely throwing the kernel into a panic.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How easy is it to get HDR and VRR support working?

From a KDE Plasma desktop, the version provided is still to old, I found. It's not yet available.

But even on Kubuntu 25.10, enabling HDR crashes the whole system.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I’m going to preface and say that I don’t personally use HDR/VRR and have not attempted to use it on my system.

From what I know a couple of conditions need to be met to achieve this, tailor your setup towards Wayland opposed to X11, if you’re unfamiliar with the differences here’s a comprehensive run-down, you’ll need to follow those steps above I mentioned in regards to installing the Nvidia drivers as well as enable certain configuration options.

For a desktop environment i’m personally more familiar with KDE and know that they ship Plasma 6 with partial HDR support in Wayland desktops, granted Plasma 6 released in 2024 so support is likely to be more accessible now.

Not too sure if much else needs to be configured but to my knowledge that’s the gist of it.

Oh cool!!! Thank you!