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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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[–] Yepoleb@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Sid for gaming and it has always worked perfectly. I am very happy with it.

[–] lal309@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does your /etc/is-release say for code name? I installed bookworm and then pointed apt to unstable as instructed in the Debian Wiki but when I did the full-upgrade (also as instructed in the wiki) now it says code name= trixie. Not a big deal, it’s just kinda strange. Maybe it’s supposed to as technically Trixie is the “unstable” at the moment. Idk. Just curious.

[–] Yepoleb@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I also have VERSION_CODENAME=trixie. Never been an issue so far.

[–] waffless@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ive gamed on just about every distro i've tried but i currently run debian sid its fine, linux is linux for the most part. kernel is recent enough so youre not gonna have to do any workarounds or anything.

[–] iloverocks@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Most of the time it isn't about the kernel what is causing gaming problems it is most of the time other packages. I had problems with a few games on KDE neon what uses a ubuntu lts system as its base

[–] iloverocks@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I don't know why so many are talking about Debian with distrobox I'm currently testing with bedrock Linux with a hijacked nobara for gaming and GNOME things. I also fetched a arch strata for anything else like window compositor waybar librewolf etc