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Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you want to play games, then Debian isn't that good of a choice because of the outdated packages. I'd suggest getting a new SSD though. Your HDD is already pretty old and slow and could potentially fail soon, so you might as well get some fresh storage. Makes it easy to test distros too until you found something satisfactory, at which point you can transfer over your old data and eventually format your old HDD into some sort of backup drive I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Linux Mint is a pretty solid option for a desktop OS. And it feels quite a bit like Debian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can play games on Debian if you install Steam from Flatpak. It installs everything it needs (drivers, Proton etc.) and just works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What about your kernel?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You don't need the latest kernel for games to work, a recent one will do.

Debian uses LTS kernel versions, which have very good support. Debian 12 runs kernel 6.1 which will be supported until the end of 2027.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

If you're using AMD you do, because that's the majority of your gpu driver.