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Switching to Debian on my gaming pc (lemmy.one)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm in a similar boat as you and my current plan is to switch to PopOS. They are Ubuntu/Debian based so you will be familiar with it, and they also are a distro that is more focused on gaming, so you will have an easier time with video card drivers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The only issue that I have with pop OS is that it seems unnecessarily slow at times.

I'm running a Lenovo legion 5 with a 10750x, 32 gigs of ram, and a 2060 in it and sometimes it would feel a full second between when I click the button and when something happens.

Fedora was a little bit better about that, but I don't use that because of the weird politics surrounding Fedora right now.

Now I'm on a mint cinnamon and it's actually pretty good, although I have yet to try playing any games from steam on it.

The other issues I have is that Fedora would keep my Bluetooth speakers connected between reboots but both pop OS and Linux cinnamon require that I manually reconnect every time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I was in a similar boat to you, but then I installed pop and just gave it a go. Stuck it on a separate hd for now but with everything setup and working I'm very happy with it.