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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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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Works fine for me, mostly.

You go zypper inr and it should install what is essential. The rest are in the repos, but you'll have to make a bit of search due to weird naming conventions. Luckily, zypper search exists.

Overall, it's be much less painful than Debian, but significantly more involved compared to gaming distros like Bazzite, CachyOS, and Nobara.