I’m on arch currently (with an RX 7600 and R5 3600) and its a good experience, but I find myself wanting many of the .deb packages available on Debian, and trawling the AUR makes me nervous

would Debian testing give me a good gaming experience? I run all of my packages off of flatpak anyway, and would continue to do so on Debian

  • dark_stang@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I used to run debian testing, but as the branch name implies you will experience the occasional break. If you’re doing straight gaming, Arch seems like the distro to be on. I game and work (dev stuff) on my machines so I run pop_os (with xanmod kernel).

    • Mair@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      honestly arch has treated me well, its just that I’m having a certified arch moment trying to get a VPN working and thought about how much easier it is on other distros that dont throw you to the terminal dogs

      • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        How is that any easier on Debian to get a VPN going? Usually it’s exactly the same, just the package name is different (if even that)

    • Kristof12@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Mostly he’s going to have problems on native packages, but if he uses flatpak, it’s not so many problems to deal with

    • Evening Newbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Pop is great for gaming, and part of the reason I picked it was so I’d have access to more software packages. No regrets.