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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

    I'm curious what do people here consider "old" since that's the top complaint about Debian? It's never more than a year or two behind "bleeding edge" distros. When I think "old", I'm thinking 10, 15 years ago. That's considered "old" in the Windows world, but I guess that's super ancient geological history in the Linux world.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    @TimeSquirrel @RmDebArc_5 @nottheengineer @SomeBoyo @dustyData For gaming one year is old, you want the latest drivers in order to achieve maximum performance ( * or at least increase your chances to ).
    For office or media consumption maybe one year isn't old at all.

    Thats what I believe

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    As not a gamer, I keep forgetting about games and that people also use computers to play them.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

    @TimeSquirrel @RmDebArc_5 @nottheengineer @SomeBoyo @dustyData Imo gaming is the only reason to use bleeding edge distros. Otherwise is risky, your system could break with every update.
    Even though I said that I also use Arch for uni stuff, but I have everything backed on my own server and in the case of system failure I can simply reinstall arch and mount my network drive again

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Nevermind "maximum performance", back when Elden Ring came out I needed a fresh version of mesa to get it to run at all. That was on Ubuntu, but I doubt Debian would have been any better. At least it was an easy fix to get fresher mesa from a PPA.