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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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[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Debian is what you put on your grandma's Facebook machine

To put it in a less elitist way: you can put it on a family PC for light entertainment or for things like homework for kids

To be perfectly clear: most people use their PC as a glorified Facebook machine.

(it also doesn't have to be Facebook but the concept is the same)

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Debian is what you put on a system you want to work forever with minimal maintenance. Whether that be your Grandma's computer or my headless server.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't Debian the FOSS-only one? Or am I misremembering?

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I'm sure one can have their install that way but mine isn't.

[–] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm gaming perfectly fine on my Debian machine. Only one single time in years I had a problem with some custom tailored script from someone that linked as minimum a dependency that was newer than the version served in apt

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This. My main rig runs arch and I do my heavy gaming there, but for travel I have a laptop running Debian, it has no problem running Steam and games via Proton. I've also done some light coding, even a bit of 3D modeling. It's not basic, it's bulletproof.