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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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I switched from arch to Debian bookworm for my work/gaming pc, and I have no regrets. Same amount of time setting up as arch, because of the newer kernel on bookworm you don’t have many prerequisites to install. Was gaming within an hour or two. That was six months ago, and things don’t break all the time like arch, where they would fix graphics drivers, but doing so would bork the sound. I play everything from factorio to cyberpunk, no issues. Only thing I can not get running for the life of me on windows or Linux is forza motorsports.
I don’t think distro matters as much anymore with modern Linux. There are enough tutorials out there on most of them, should be easy to get setup on almost anything.
From Arch to Debian, that's a 180° on stability. But to be honest, I'm using arch for 2 months now and everything seems very stable. I had no problems, yet.
I never had an issue with system stability with Arch. It was just tiring every day making sure everything was up to date. Updates would break little things, like audio or some wine dependencies and I would just have to deal till I ran updates the next day. Meanwhile with Debian, the only issue I have ran into was with lutris and battle.net, and that turned out to just be a problem with mangohud.