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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (8 children)

I've been gaming on Debian (granted, with the backports kernel). What am I missing? Everything works and I've had zero issues.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago*

    The present-day Linux kernel tree (not the Debian guys) actually has a target to build a Debian kernel package (make bindeb-pkg) straight out of git if you want, so you can pretty readily get a packaged kernel out of the Linux kernel git repo, as long as you can come up with a viable build config for it (probably starting from a recent Debian kernel's config). I have run off Debian-packaged kernels built that way before, if you want to play on the really bleeding edge.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Yep, been gaming on Ubuntu for decades. Zero issue. Occasionally have to do a thing, but it's Linux, so you know; everything is always do able.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    maybe youve always been using 2 year or older hardware *shrug

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Debian and Ubuntu get packages and kernels upwards of 6 months late. If you run newer hardware, you need the most up to date drivers/kernel. Fedora and Arch just offer more bleeding/cutting edge releases.

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