I’m on arch currently (with an RX 7600 and R5 3600) and its a good experience, but I find myself wanting many of the .deb packages available on Debian, and trawling the AUR makes me nervous
would Debian testing give me a good gaming experience? I run all of my packages off of flatpak anyway, and would continue to do so on Debian
I used to run debian testing, but as the branch name implies you will experience the occasional break. If you’re doing straight gaming, Arch seems like the distro to be on. I game and work (dev stuff) on my machines so I run pop_os (with xanmod kernel).
honestly arch has treated me well, its just that I’m having a certified arch moment trying to get a VPN working and thought about how much easier it is on other distros that dont throw you to the terminal dogs
Mostly he’s going to have problems on native packages, but if he uses flatpak, it’s not so many problems to deal with
I run Sid and use flatpak for steam and minigalaxy. No issues here.
Aur is not as scary as it seens. But I don’t really have any good advice for gaming.