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  • moody ( moody@lemmings.world ) 
    15·
    2 years ago

    Are there distros that are actually unsuitable for gaming, besides ones that are designed to be CLI-only or specific to antediluvian hardware?

    I feel like gaming-specific distros just include stuff that you could otherwise just manually add to any other distro and make it suitable.

    • HubertManne ( HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ) deleted by creator
      7·
      2 years ago

      I will say there is something to be said for out of the box experience. Im on zorin mainly because it has a lot out of the box. Granted its not a great gaming one necessarily as it is stability focused over bleeding edge but I could see ones where the gaming elements are ready right after install as being desirable.

      • moody ( moody@lemmings.world ) 
        4·
        2 years ago

        Agreed, I’ve been running gaming-focused distros mostly because of the convenience of everything being ready and set up, but I’ve never had any issues on a non-gaming distro to set it up for gaming either.

    • Mora ( Mora@pawb.social ) 
      3·
      2 years ago

      Depends on what you want to play. If you want to play current games with current hardware then current kernel and drivers help a lot. A base Debian would (if it even works) probably less FPS than an current gaming distro.

      • utopiah ( utopiah@lemmy.ml ) 
        2·
        2 years ago

        A base Debian would (if it even works) probably less FPS than an current gaming distro.

        Can you please elaborate on why? I’m running Debian stable with NVIDIA drivers and… it “just works”. I’m using Steam to get Proton and game content (e.g. was playing Elden Ring minutes ago). I didn’t tinker much so wondering what I could be missing.