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| ▲ | argsnd 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I find that Fedora hits the right balance of stability while being up to date for anything desktop and specifically gaming focused, Debian has different priorities and packages can be a bit too old. And it’s less of a faff than Arch. |
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| ▲ | eru an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Archlinux can be a pretty good choice for gaming. Not necessarily because of anything Archlinux does: most distros can do anything, if you configure them. No, just because the Steamdeck's distro is built on Arch, and so you can piggyback on what they are doing. | |
| ▲ | kentonv 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Eh, aside from GPU drivers -- which I download directly from nvidia anyway -- I don't feel like gaming is much affected by the distro packages being a couple years old. We pretty much just run Steam, Discord, and Chrome on these things, and those all have their own update schedule independent of the distro. | | |
| ▲ | tapoxi 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | You're right because the games run in containers anyway, steam-runtime. |
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| ▲ | LeoPanthera 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| But you use it for games, right? So I figured you'd pick one based on how well it runs Steam. (And maybe for GPU drivers.) |
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| ▲ | kentonv 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Steam supports Debian well. I download the nvidia drivers directly from nvidia. Their installer script is actually pretty decent and then I don't have to worry about whether the distro packages are up-to-date. |
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