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What distro do you game on? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by qwestjest78@lemmy.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I just picked up a cheap older gaming PC with a GTX 1050 and and Intel I7 CPU. Trying to decide what distro to load on it for gaming. Curious that others experience is gaming on various distros.

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[–] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Debian. It wont win any awards for fastest release cycles but it's rock stable with great support for my Ryzen 2700 and 6700xt.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

Debain gamer here as well!

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

As a FreeBSD user just trying to game on Unix, I've blown up my Debian machine so many times. A couple of years ago, trying to get CUDA in Blender working AND have a recent enough driver for the Windows games I was playing on Proton was killing me. I don't remember what exactly but it seemed like every time I tried to change something, the whole fragile mess would bork itself.

[–] Nemoder@lemmy.ml 1 points 48 minutes ago

yeah, back when I used nvidia I had to run their driver installer or nothing would work right, and of course any little system update would bork everything until I ran the installer again. Thankfully everything with AMD just works now.