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Watched a video about Debian and now I am not sure is the best for me. (lemmy.world)
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I have just watched this video and in it 2 things are said that made my Linux newbie heart sink:

  • Debian 13 is not going to get the latest versions of Nvidia drivers and there are better distros for us.
  • Debian in general is not meant to run on the latest hardware.

I am on a regularly upgraded desktop tower gaming PC and currently I have an Nvidia card and an Intel CPU (which, I know, even just because of the mobo chipset is not a great choice).

In this conditions and wanting to invest even more in gaming and new hardware in the future, what should I run on, instead of LMDE 6?

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you want something stable but up-to-date, Fedora is a very good option. Plus it has a bunch of "Spins". The two main ones are Gnome and KDE Plasma, but there is a bunch more, and they're all officially supported.

Then there's also Arch. Arch should not be considered stable, but anecdotally I've not heard many problems with it in the past few years, so you'd probably be fine. I'd go with EndeavourOS or CatchyOS if you want Arch without the tedious setup process.

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Stable doesn’t mean “won’t crash”, or that there’s any guarantee that there are less problems. It just means that there won’t be any big changes during the distro’s lifecycle.

That might mean it crashes less since you won’t see much in terms of new features, or it might mean you have to live with a very annoying bug for a few years because the package maintainers didn’t want to back port the fix for whatever reason.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Just remember to check archlinux.org before system updates.