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GitHub - Lunarboar/debian-gaming-suite: Universal gaming optimisation for all Debian-based Distros — AMD, NVIDIA, Intel Arc (github.com)
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I'm ditching Ubuntu. Thinking of switching to Debian.

Has anyone used this, or something similar to set up their Debian gaming setup?

This got me thinking. Do I need to install anything special to Debian 13 to be able to play games? Or can I play them with a normal Debian out of the box?

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[–] Quantumantics@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you're okay with something other than vanilla Debian, give Linux Mint Debian Edition a look. I used it for years without significant hiccups playing a wide variety of games. I switched to Bazzite after testing it out and liking the immutable aspects of it (though as another commenter mentioned, there is some pain involved in the learning curve), but I still keep LMDE around on my old gaming rig and on a couple other computers of mine.

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks, but I want a KDE desktop.

[–] Quantumantics@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, they have KDE in their repo, it's just not the out-of-box default.