In no way I do! I used Debian on my machines, and it’s a brilliant distro for its purpose. Which, to my mind, modern gaming is just not.
Debian will absolutely run games, though. The problem is, will it work well with newer titles, released after the respective Debian release? Elden Ring is 4 years old, after all. It was released in the Debian 11 era, and we’re on 13 now.
In any case, if you mostly play slightly dated games and don’t mind small performance drops due to older drivers, why not just stay on Debian Stable, like you do now? It will serve you just fine, and your system will be rock solid, unlike Sid. The performance gains from CachyOS kernel optimizations are normally not that big, and comparable to what you lose by not having the newest drivers. Just play on Trixie if it fits you :)
I mean, yeah, that’s exactly what I’m going to do is stay on stable. Or maybe in a year or two when Trixie gets a little too outdated, I’ll give Siduction a try. As far as Stable goes, I just think people tend to overreact about the packages being older. They’re older for a reason, and bleeding edge distros tend to break more for good reason - even if they have gone through some testing before deployment, you are still running a lot of software that’s basically in beta status. No amount of tests are going to catch every edge case. Even my Fedora laptop occasionally has weird stuff happen after updates sometimes.
But I was just musing about the idea manually giving Debian Cachy-like features. If somebody is recompiling their own kernels and rebuilding whole portions of their system, being on an unstable system isn’t going to be much of an issue. A person with that kind of skillset can handle them self.
edit: oh, also, I’m not going to be running anything strictly current on my machine anyway. My desktop uses a Ryzen 7 2700X and RX 590 - Final Fantasy 16 won’t even start on it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In no way I do! I used Debian on my machines, and it’s a brilliant distro for its purpose. Which, to my mind, modern gaming is just not.
Debian will absolutely run games, though. The problem is, will it work well with newer titles, released after the respective Debian release? Elden Ring is 4 years old, after all. It was released in the Debian 11 era, and we’re on 13 now.
In any case, if you mostly play slightly dated games and don’t mind small performance drops due to older drivers, why not just stay on Debian Stable, like you do now? It will serve you just fine, and your system will be rock solid, unlike Sid. The performance gains from CachyOS kernel optimizations are normally not that big, and comparable to what you lose by not having the newest drivers. Just play on Trixie if it fits you :)
I mean, yeah, that’s exactly what I’m going to do is stay on stable. Or maybe in a year or two when Trixie gets a little too outdated, I’ll give Siduction a try. As far as Stable goes, I just think people tend to overreact about the packages being older. They’re older for a reason, and bleeding edge distros tend to break more for good reason - even if they have gone through some testing before deployment, you are still running a lot of software that’s basically in beta status. No amount of tests are going to catch every edge case. Even my Fedora laptop occasionally has weird stuff happen after updates sometimes.
But I was just musing about the idea manually giving Debian Cachy-like features. If somebody is recompiling their own kernels and rebuilding whole portions of their system, being on an unstable system isn’t going to be much of an issue. A person with that kind of skillset can handle them self.
edit: oh, also, I’m not going to be running anything strictly current on my machine anyway. My desktop uses a Ryzen 7 2700X and RX 590 - Final Fantasy 16 won’t even start on it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯