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Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] BeyondRuby@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I use CachyOS on my main rig but i have a home server with debian i also use to game on every now and again, it was a great experience (besides nvidia drivers ngl) i dont understand why people try to scare others away from gaming with it

[–] Waryle@jlai.lu 3 points 5 days ago

Because using the latest drivers (and thus kernels) is important to play recent games, to get performance and bug fixes.

Debian usually ships an older LTS kernel (6.12 right now, while the latest stable Linux kernel is 6.18), so you might hit more bugs and performance issues in Debian than in a less conservative distro.