Hello everyone - I have been wanting to ditch windows on my gaming pc for a while now, and since I have recently finished a large project, I now have the free time to switch. I am relatively comfortable with Debian having used it for a while on my web server as well as school laptop, but I am concerned about using it on my gaming computer since I have heard stock Debian is not the greatest for gaming. All of my other daily driver programs I know will work, so I am mainly concerned with the gaming aspect.

In the case that you don’t recommend Debian for my gaming computer, do you have an OS that you would recommend?

I appreciate any insight!

  • @Pantherina@feddit.de
    1•7 months ago

    Debian is very manual in like everything. But Linux Mint uses Cinnamon which uses X11 for a loong time and that is pretty bad for anything modern with Graphics Cards

    • rem26_art
      1•7 months ago

      True, but there’s always the option of installing KDE or something else with Wayland support

      • @Pantherina@feddit.de
        1•7 months ago

        What does Linux mint have what debian doesnt? I can only think of the deb firefox and the timeshift backups which are both really neat

        • @dragnet@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1•7 months ago

          Just convenience in the form of focusing on a user-friendly out of the box experience, really. That’s enough for me to use it over Debian on desktop, though I like Debian for servers.

          • @Pantherina@feddit.de
            1•7 months ago

            But Debian for servers is also a pain.

            • no hardened ssh config
            • apparmor by default?
            • no automatic updates which is bogus