Re:Best Linux Distros for Gaming in 2017
by Jedd on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @03:56AM
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Would Debian be a smarter choice? Ubuntu's based on Debian GNU/Linux, and hardware support tends to come downstream from there. Steam based their OS on Debian, not Ubuntu. Do you know of any issues installing the .deb onto Debian?
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Installing proprietary drivers is harder and pretty much all game devs test only with Ubuntu so you might get issues due to slightly different versions of some libraries.
Ubuntu is the distro everyone is targeting so for seamless experience you kinda need to stick with it.
(That doesn't mean other distros won't work tho.)
Debian is ideologically opposed to things like closed source drivers that ubuntu makes easy. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it just makes it not a good choice for casual users and especially gamers.
I haven't tried installing it in Debian, I only have it installed as a GUI-less server, but in theory it should be fine.
The reason I mention Ubuntu is that the community is just much larger than that of Debian and there is more of a chance of someone already having solved any issues you may run into.