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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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[–] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should definitely just use what you like. If you're going with Debian, maybe go with stable instead of sid. Your games will work. Distros that are being labeled as "gaming" just have some things added for convenience, saving steps after installation. Hopping around is not necessarily a bad thing, either. I've used different ones over the years from different branches. It's good to know how they work. I can pacman. I can apt. I can dnf. I even used to apt-get and yum.

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

I’m on the same boat. I’ve hopped around a lot (for servers and for desktop). My original post was really to gauge how many people actually use straight Debian for a gaming use case. Apparently, quite a few! So that’s great news.