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Is anyone using Debian Sid for gaming? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by lal309@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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Well I’m hopping around… again. I thought I had a good stable setup going but then something happens upstream that goes against what I want/believe in (looking at you RedHat) and I’m back on the hunt again.

I thought about trying out a Debian based distro but then I thought “why don’t I just use Debian itself (Sid, not stable/Bookworm)”.

Most if not all gaming software have a way to be installed on Debian so I don’t think that could be an issue.

Is anyone else using Sid? Am I missing something by not going with a gaming focused distro??

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[–] Narann@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't use Sid, but testing, it's working almost flawlessly. Each release (once every 2 years, I guess), I take few hours to check everything work; remove shader cache, etc.

My setup, right now (dirty, for authenticity) :

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

deb https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

# bullseye-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
# see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

# add by me
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics:/darktable/Debian_Testing/ /
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/lutris.gpg] https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_Testing/ ./
# Uncomment these lines to try the beta version of the Steam launcher
#deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ beta steam
#deb-src [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ beta steam
deb [arch=amd64,i386] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam 
deb-src [arch=amd64,i386] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam 

# Uncomment these lines to try the beta version of the Steam launcher
# deb [arch=amd64,i386] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ beta steam 
# deb-src [arch=amd64,i386] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ beta steam 


deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
deb-src [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
deb [ signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/vscodium-archive-keyring.gpg ] https://download.vscodium.com/debs/ vscodium main

I play a lot, we just played Grounded with friend yesterday.

Hope this helps.

[–] lal309@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

When you say “check everything works” what do you mean?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Instead of relying on testing directly, consider using named releases (in this case, trixie for testing). Then stay on the official release for a couple months as testing stabilizes and then go to the next testing release.

I did that in the past and it worked really well. Testing gets a lot of churn right after a release as packages get rapidly upgraded, so I find it's usually better to wait a bit.