Hello everyone - I have been wanting to ditch windows on my gaming pc for a while now, and since I have recently finished a large project, I now have the free time to switch. I am relatively comfortable with Debian having used it for a while on my web server as well as school laptop, but I am concerned about using it on my gaming computer since I have heard stock Debian is not the greatest for gaming. All of my other daily driver programs I know will work, so I am mainly concerned with the gaming aspect.

In the case that you don’t recommend Debian for my gaming computer, do you have an OS that you would recommend?

I appreciate any insight!

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      9·
      11 months ago

      Pop OS works great for me. I’ve done a lot of testing with my steam (and other ) games. I’ve gotten 95% to work, most without a lot of effort. Proton db helps

      • Stillhart@lemm.ee
        5·
        11 months ago

        Ditto. I swapped to linux this summer and landed on Pop!_OS because my laptop has hybrid Nvidia graphics. Pop supports that really well because the company that makes Pop sells laptops with similar hybrid Nvidia graphics.

        So far almost every game I’ve tried on Pop has worked with no issue. Of the games that have had issues, EVERY ONE got working with the help of Proton db. (Note: All Steam games or games with native linux support.)

        Anyways, yeah I’m really not the biggest fan of Pop’s desktop environment, but it work really well for gaming so I’m leaving well enough alone.