Hello everyone - I have been wanting to ditch windows on my gaming pc for a while now, and since I have recently finished a large project, I now have the free time to switch. I am relatively comfortable with Debian having used it for a while on my web server as well as school laptop, but I am concerned about using it on my gaming computer since I have heard stock Debian is not the greatest for gaming. All of my other daily driver programs I know will work, so I am mainly concerned with the gaming aspect.
In the case that you don’t recommend Debian for my gaming computer, do you have an OS that you would recommend?
I appreciate any insight!
I’m in a similar boat as you and my current plan is to switch to PopOS. They are Ubuntu/Debian based so you will be familiar with it, and they also are a distro that is more focused on gaming, so you will have an easier time with video card drivers.
The only issue that I have with pop OS is that it seems unnecessarily slow at times.
I’m running a Lenovo legion 5 with a 10750x, 32 gigs of ram, and a 2060 in it and sometimes it would feel a full second between when I click the button and when something happens.
Fedora was a little bit better about that, but I don’t use that because of the weird politics surrounding Fedora right now.
Now I’m on a mint cinnamon and it’s actually pretty good, although I have yet to try playing any games from steam on it.
The other issues I have is that Fedora would keep my Bluetooth speakers connected between reboots but both pop OS and Linux cinnamon require that I manually reconnect every time.
I was in a similar boat to you, but then I installed pop and just gave it a go. Stuck it on a separate hd for now but with everything setup and working I’m very happy with it.