i've always been one of those people telling noobs to stay away from debian when they ask which distros are good for gaming because i thought the outdated graphics drivers would make it a bad choice. i always thought it would lag behind other distros especially the rolling releases like arch. i decided on a whim to try it again on my gaming PC since it's one of the GOATs and tbh the constant updates in fedora were starting to fatigue me (and it's also one of the distros officially supported by the new Easy AntiCheat update coming soon, which is a big plus) and my jaw is actually on the floor. using proton stable, the FPS in pretty much all of my games is better than any other distro i've tried, and even better than windows in MANY cases from my testing. this is nuts. i think this entire time they've been cooking by holding packages in purgatory indefinitely and i've just been sleeping.

the downside is that i haven't been able to get HDR to work right since the kernel is literally a year old at this point, but if that's not important to you (it isn't really to me), i HIGHLY recommend this. especially if you have an AMD GPU like myself (i'm not sure of the state of nvidia drivers on debian so can't speak on them). my perspective has completely flipped. i'm officially a debian evangelist now.

edit: okay according to the comments maybe don't rush to hop to debian if you have an nvidia GPU but if you have AMD I still highly recommend it

The challenge was to stay on Nobara for one whole year and two weeks later, I failed by switching to Arch Linux. The punishment was the death chip, if you want to see me suffer, watch this… or don’t :) thank you

https://youtu.be/R-oQWU3G4Rs?is=QP7VC0g134FVn3WE

https://easyosinstall.wordpress.com/2026/10/27/1317/

I move to Linux about a year ago and since I'm daily driving Nobara Linux with KDE.

On an old dell laptop installed Mint. Works like a charm.

I have Raspberry Pi headless server with Debian. So I don't mind tinkering and not afraid of CLI. For example I had deleted my home directory by not paying attention. Lesson learned. :)

I'm sure I can do the hole Arch install too. If I wanted to.

I like to game in My Desktop. That's why I installed Nobara.

There are some issues lately with Nobara after updates on my system. some Apps stoped working, Video monitor starts disconnecting when gaming or fullscreen some videos. Also feels I need to do an update almost every day.

So I am undecided if I should try just plain Fedora and install all the gaming apps I need. or if I should hop to Pika OS.

Is it really anything special PikaOS ,Nobara or CachyOs do vs plain Fedora or Debian?

Also Not sure if I should try Gnome too.

Thoughts??

Recently i was wandering through my old stuff and found my old pc so i decided i want to load up linux on it and see how it turns out, Any Recommended distros for it?

I'm a CS student who work with rust. i often break my svsteme. Also I have an nvidia rtx 3050 and an intel i5. 1 will install librewolf, niri and waybar, so I need to know if my laptoop is good enough and if gentoo is the way?

Sofar so good! This Ryoku is incredibly beautiful but bugs here and there....

I made an Arch-based distro for people who like Arch but are tired of updates breaking things. cairn-updatedoesn’t use live mirrors. It points pacman at the Arch Linux Archive snapshot from 7 days earlier, so packages have had a week in Arch before you get them. Every Cairn machine on the same date has the same package set. cairn-update --now gets today’s packages when a security fix can’t wait.

Also: btrfs snapshots before and after every package change, bootable from GRUB; AppArmor, an nftables firewall and kernel hardening on by default; LTS kernel; KDE Plasma by default, other desktops in the installer.

Known limits: the installer is text-mode and uses the whole disk, and security fixes come 7 days late unless you use --now.

Site: https://aceyx3-sudo.github.io/cairn-site/
Source (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/AceyX3-sudo/cairn

It’s just me working on this and its new so any feedback is appreciated

I built an Arch-based distro for people who like Arch but are tired of updates breaking things. cairn-update doesn’t use live mirrors. It points pacman at the Arch Linux Archive snapshot from 7 days earlier, so packages have had a week in Arch before you get them. Every Cairn machine on the same date has the same package set. cairn-update --now gets today’s packages when a security fix can’t wait.

Also: btrfs snapshots before and after every package change, bootable from GRUB; AppArmor, an nftables firewall and kernel hardening on by default; LTS kernel; KDE Plasma by default, other desktops in the installer.

Known limits: the installer is text-mode and uses the whole disk, and security fixes come 7 days late unless you use --now.

Site: https://aceyx3-sudo.github.io/cairn-site/
Source (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/AceyX3-sudo/cairn

It’s a solo project and it’s new, so bug reports and blunt feedback are welcome.

Hey guys, I just happed to revive my old machine latitude E6400 back to life after trying many Linux distros for long hours or testing, then finally I came across bodhi Linux, you would be surprised 😳 thing runs pretty smoothly I don’t see it freezing so I added Libre Office Brave since it’s my best Browser and vlc. Am really glad that I bodhi Linux made it work.

I'm so satisfied with this Debian distro. I can do anything

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