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Watched a video about Debian and now I am not sure is the best for me. (lemmy.world)
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I have just watched this video and in it 2 things are said that made my Linux newbie heart sink:

  • Debian 13 is not going to get the latest versions of Nvidia drivers and there are better distros for us.
  • Debian in general is not meant to run on the latest hardware.

I am on a regularly upgraded desktop tower gaming PC and currently I have an Nvidia card and an Intel CPU (which, I know, even just because of the mobo chipset is not a great choice).

In this conditions and wanting to invest even more in gaming and new hardware in the future, what should I run on, instead of LMDE 6?

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[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

For fastest hardware support, you will want a rolling distribution like Arch (requires a do-it-yourself attitude) or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (complete out of box, but some quirks, like missing codecs requires manual work). Fedora also has decent new hardware support, not rolling so not as good, but same problem as OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. You can also consider derivitives like CachyOS (Arch, but has a nice installer).

Ubuntu and Linux Mint have OK new hardware support. Twice a year they release new "hardware enablement upgrades" to bring new support.

And worst is Debian. They don't do hardware ennoblement upgrades at all. It's something you have to do yourself by using backports. They bring new hardware enablement by default with new releases every 2 years.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

+1 for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

I had noob problems with so many distros, and Tumbleweed gave me the least problems getting started. Good GUI based control with Discover and YAST. OpenSUSE really doesn't seem to get recommended enough.

I follow the channel OP linked and he's had a similarly positive opinion of Tumbleweed (2 years ago).

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Debian stable is not the same as Debian testing or Debian unstable.

You want to run bleeding edge hardware, you'll need to run bleeding edge software, which you'll find in Debian unstable.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Debian unstable and Debian testing aren't meant for daily use, I'm not sure why you're even bringing them up.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] imecth@fedia.io 1 points 10 hours ago

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable

Debian Unstable (also known by its codename "Sid") is not a release, but rather the development version of the Debian distribution containing the latest packages that have been introduced into Debian. It is not a "rolling release", as no release-like quality assurance and integration testing is done on it.

You need some amount of testing because packages do break, the 2 week testing window on arch is really important in making sure your pc can at least boot.