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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by kentonv on Thursday January 01, 2026 @07:52PM (#46460091)
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.
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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by tapoxi on Thursday January 01, 2026 @07:58PM (#46460139)
You're right because the games run in containers anyway, steam-runtime.
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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by sznio on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:02AM (#46462870)
I'm hopeful that's been fixed by now, but when I switched to Linux a year ago I started with Debian, and had a lot of issues with input latency for games on Wayland. Switched to Fedora which was two KDE versions ahead and never had that issue again.
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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by joe200 on Friday January 02, 2026 @06:04AM (#46463620)
Because you used Debian stable (which is mostly for servers). Try Debian Testing. And don't get fooled by its name "testing" - it is because Debian community reserved "stable" for Debian stable. Debian testing is also stable :-)
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