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?
Fuck Arch. It’s a little fanboy distro with unstable packages and a user package repo full of infected packages. I’m never gonna touch it. When a distro has to have a dozen derivatives just to solve the problem of using the fucking thing just shows that it’s completely stupid. They push whatever new package they find and let the users deal with the fucking problems. Fuck that.
Debian is the most stable and secure distro with the largest package repo of any Linux distributions. Even third party software companies provides Debian packages. It’s also a community project that’s not backed or controlled by any corporation. They are professional and dedicated. I don’t care that it’s packages are a bit on the older side (2 years? so what?) At least I know I’m not getting infected or that my next update isn’t going to break my system.
I’m so fucking tired of people saying “JuSt UsE cAtChYoS oR bAzZiTe”. No! I don’t want to spend my evenings and weekends troubleshooting my fucking PC because an update failed. I don’t want to spend time reading forums and release note to ensure my next update isn’t going to fuck up everything. I’m already working IT at my day job. I don’t want to spend my free time doing the same fucking shit. I also don’t want a god damn immutable atomic OS. I want to install packages when I want without having to fucking reboot.
Sorry for lashing out, but I’m just tired of people thinking I’m stupid because I don’t use Catchy or Bazzite. I’ve been using Linux for 25 years. I’ve seen multiple distros come to life and then die a few years later. Arch started strong, but it’s become a clusterfuck and I can’t see it becoming anything serious in the future. Arch is great if you want to fuck around, but it’s terrible if you’re not a student with lots of free time who want any serious hassle-free desktop OS that just fucking works. And the immutable OSes probably have their uses, but they’re not for desktop PCs. (I’d totally see them working on portable devices like smartphones and tablets with flatpaks.)
Anyway,
/rant
I don’t know your particular use case. I dislike Ubuntu desktop because I used it between 2017-2019 and it was horrible, horrible experience.
I spent countless hours diagnosing and fixing because Canonical fucking broke Vulkan drivers on Ubuntu 17.10. I’m not mad that bug happened I’m mad because they didn’t bother to fix it until next major release half a year later.
Also they made wayland default in 2017. No vsync control, no Hidpi scaling, and bunch of other shit broken. On Ubuntu 18.04LTS their system 100% crashed when launching steam after updating kernel. I have still no idea why.
Fuck this company. I’m on rolling distro now. Ubuntu is the reason why Linux is so niche. Every new user is recommended that garbage and most of them must bounce straight back to Windows.
Right now I’m on Manjaro and I’m happy with it but I can see the issues with it.
I don’t use AUR. Maybe there are like two packages I installed from there. I think AUR is conceptually stupid, and I use official repos and flatpak whenever I can.
I’ve never encountered these problems with Ubuntu. And the Wayland as default?? They’ve only started imposing it now in 26.04. So I don’t know what you’re talking about.
If you use the *.10 non LTS you can expect trouble. They tell you so. I’ve only ever stuck to LTS versions and never had issues. It was the best distro around until now.
They made Wayland default in 17.10 and retracted it with next release. It was completely broken mess.
Huh. That’s a surprise. Like I said, I only ever used LTS versons so this didn’t affect me. But yeah that’s pretty shitty.