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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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Idk how well Debian stable would work, but Debian Sid might be a bit easier to work with in terms of games with it being more on the bleeding edge.
There's also Linux Mint Debian if you want to stay in the Debian universe, but you'd get more of the ease of use of Mint.
Me personally, I'm using Fedora for gaming and I haven't really had many issues with it. If you're feeling adventurous, you could try Fedora or Nobara, which is a more gaming focused spinoff of Fedora
Debian is very manual in like everything. But Linux Mint uses Cinnamon which uses X11 for a loong time and that is pretty bad for anything modern with Graphics Cards
True, but there's always the option of installing KDE or something else with Wayland support
What does Linux mint have what debian doesnt? I can only think of the deb firefox and the timeshift backups which are both really neat
Just convenience in the form of focusing on a user-friendly out of the box experience, really. That's enough for me to use it over Debian on desktop, though I like Debian for servers.
But Debian for servers is also a pain.