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GitHub - Lunarboar/debian-gaming-suite: Universal gaming optimisation for all Debian-based Distros — AMD, NVIDIA, Intel Arc (github.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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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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[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I use tumbleweed. Mostly just works. Sometimes, you have to go look for packages that are named differently than in other distros.

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[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca [S] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

That's kinda dumb though. Renaming packages differently I mean. Why would they do that?

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[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

It's not really renaming. It's just that the big distros have different naming conventions, and documentation often uses the names used either by Fedora/Redhat or Debian/Ubuntu.

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