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!
Debian is fine, but not that great if you wanna game, it’s packages are kinda old and that matters a lot of you wanna game on linux, as the scene is rapidly evolving, even as we speak. It will work, you just might have issues with certain packages being to old and games not running as well as they should… If you want a gaming 1st distro, try nobara or something with newer packages, like EndeavorOS.
Another thing that matters a lot when it comes to gaming on linux is the desktop environment and display server. It’s a big topic and I’m gonna get hated on, no matter what I recommend here, but my personal recommendation is to use the KDE Plasma desktop with the Wayland session. Again, it’s a big topic and you should look up the pros and cons of using Wayland or X11 for gaming, I recommend using Wayland to avoid certain headaches with X11 and to have a generally more usable system while gaming…