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Is anyone using Debian Sid for gaming? (self.linux_gaming)

submitted 1 year ago by lal309 to c/linux_gaming

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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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[–] lal309 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you say “check everything works” what do you mean?

[–] Narann 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Testing goes stabler and stabler with time. Then testing move to release and the previous untesting (sid) move to testing. It's a that moment that you can have surprise. This is the moment where I often wait one month or two, apply the updates and check my os is working as before, meaning running my day to day applications and game and see if things work. The only problem I had once was shader cache. I removed few things in .cache and I was good.

[–] lal309 1 points 1 year ago

Ah okay got ya