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    [–] zewm@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Nah. I’m a gamer and need something with more up to date packages. I can’t rely on Debian / Ubuntu base.

    Fedora and Arch base are my go to.

    [–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I'm a gamer too and i'm not sure what is about that, everything seems fine on the 6.12 kernel LMDE is on.

    [–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

    Ditto. Also a gamer on Linux Mint and never once had a problem.

    [–] librekitty@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    bazzite?

    [–] zewm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

    I used Bazzite for a bit and I like the direction of the project. I’m still not happy with where Flatpak is and so I switched to CachyOS for now.

    [–] blah3166@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I've been gaming on Debian (granted, with the backports kernel). What am I missing? Everything works and I've had zero issues.

    [–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    The present-day Linux kernel tree (not the Debian guys) actually has a target to build a Debian kernel package (make bindeb-pkg) straight out of git if you want, so you can pretty readily get a packaged kernel out of the Linux kernel git repo, as long as you can come up with a viable build config for it (probably starting from a recent Debian kernel's config). I have run off Debian-packaged kernels built that way before, if you want to play on the really bleeding edge.

    [–] highball@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Yep, been gaming on Ubuntu for decades. Zero issue. Occasionally have to do a thing, but it's Linux, so you know; everything is always do able.

    [–] texture@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    maybe youve always been using 2 year or older hardware *shrug

    [–] highball@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Or maybe I just run the mainline kernel in the cases I need it.

    [–] texture@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

    i'll admit it, i was partially memeing

    [–] zewm@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Debian and Ubuntu get packages and kernels upwards of 6 months late. If you run newer hardware, you need the most up to date drivers/kernel. Fedora and Arch just offer more bleeding/cutting edge releases.

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 week ago

    Sid, or even experimental staging can solve that.

    Ceres, if on Devuan instead of Debian.

    Thus more newness available in Debianland too.

    [–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago

    I'm using Kubuntu LTS and I'm gaming just fine.