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Watched a video about Debian and now I am not sure is the best for me. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by biofaust@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@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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[–] kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

If you want newer stuff the non-stable branches of Debian are perfectly usable.

Testing (the upcoming release) should be your first stop. But even Unstable works just as well as most other distros. There might be the occasional issue, but anything serious is generally fixed quickly.

Debian stable is intended for use cases where an update must never change anything that could cause any problem. For the average desktop it's perfectly fine to have things change or to be mildly inconvenienced every now and then.