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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

I'm ditching Ubuntu. Thinking of switching to Debian.

Has anyone used this, or something similar to set up their Debian gaming setup?

This got me thinking. Do I need to install anything special to Debian 13 to be able to play games? Or can I play them with a normal Debian out of the box?

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[-] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Go with Bazzite. Stable or LTS distros are more insecure than rolling release, and Debian has a history of leaving vulnerable packages not updated (eg. Chromium).

Debian/Ubuntu use AppArmor for very minimal mandatory access control policies. Fedora (which Bazzite is based on) uses SELinux, which is better.

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