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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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[–] imecth@fedia.io 4 points 15 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 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] imecth@fedia.io 1 points 7 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.