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Is anyone using Debian Sid for gaming? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by lal309@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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Well I’m hopping around… again. I thought I had a good stable setup going but then something happens upstream that goes against what I want/believe in (looking at you RedHat) and I’m back on the hunt again.

I thought about trying out a Debian based distro but then I thought “why don’t I just use Debian itself (Sid, not stable/Bookworm)”.

Most if not all gaming software have a way to be installed on Debian so I don’t think that could be an issue.

Is anyone else using Sid? Am I missing something by not going with a gaming focused distro??

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, Mint has a Debian-based version that I've heard great things about. It would probably have lots of the legwork done for you (getting flatpak, etc).

[–] lal309@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Very true! But I’ll stick with base for now. As I mentioned to someone else, I just don’t want to keep running into the endless loop of a distro doing something that affects downstream and then I’m affected by it too and blah blah.