Question Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) vs Fedora / Arch for gaming

[Indus]

I've been using Linux Mint for like 3 years now.. and I switched over to their Debian Edition as it's a lot more stable, polished and hassle free. A lot of things that give problems under Ubuntu based Linux Mint work just fine under the Debian based Linux Mint.

I still used Windows 10 for gaming but since its security updates are ending in October.. I wanted to find a new operating system.

A lot of people have recommended Fedora since it's much faster with patches.. so I'm curious.. anyone have good experiences with it or should I just stay with Debian linux mint since I'm very comfortable with it.

Any feedback/ suggestions would be most appreciated.

 

[lxskllr]

LMDE tracks debian stable, right? If so, packages will tend to be out of date. Might be important for the latest hardware. or game centric packages. Faster and/or rolling releases will be more up to date, and have more fun new bugs to troubleshoot.

I like debian, and have run debian stable forever now. I spent a couple years running debian testing, and it was more work than I want to put into a computer system, so I went back to stable. If it were me, and I particularly wanted to game, I'd run debian stable(or LMDE in your case), and see how it goes. If something fails, check online, and see if others have gotten it to work. If they've gotten it to work, see if you can make it work in mint. You can, cause end of the day, linux is linux, but it might be more effort than is sensible, and you may want to switch distros.

What *I* would look at is opensuse tumbleweed. I'm not saying it's any better than anything else, but it's where my interest is. Try some faster releasing distros in a vm, and see what you think.

 

[Indus]

LMDE tracks debian stable, right? If so, packages will tend to be out of date. Might be important for the latest hardware. or game centric packages. Faster and/or rolling releases will be more up to date, and have more fun new bugs to troubleshoot.

I like debian, and have run debian stable forever now. I spent a couple years running debian testing, and it was more work than I want to put into a computer system, so I went back to stable. If it were me, and I particularly wanted to game, I'd run debian stable(or LMDE in your case), and see how it goes. If something fails, check online, and see if others have gotten it to work. If they've gotten it to work, see if you can make it work in mint. You can, cause end of the day, linux is linux, but it might be more effort than is sensible, and you may want to switch distros.

What *I* would look at is opensuse tumbleweed. I'm not saying it's any better than anything else, but it's where my interest is. Try some faster releasing distros in a vm, and see what you think.

Yes LMDE tracks debian stable.

LMDE 6 is based on Debian 12.. so when Debian 13 is out later this year, a month or two after LMDE 7 will be out.. and it's a straight and easy upgrade.

My wife loves the stability and simplicity of LMDE. Her one gripe is all program updates need passwords.. but I just made her password short so we've gotten over that. But it's nice that she doesn't have to worry about computer viruses.. she hated that in Windows and her computer had some funky ones.. like 1 that ate all her ram and slowed the computer down to a crawl. It would take an hour to boot up.. but the hardware seemed to be just fine.

No issues with LMDE!

Debian stable JUST WORKS!

LMDE's advantage is it's cinnamon skin and it comes pre-installed with many drivers and stuff you would have to normally look for in Debian as normal Debian Stable is very clean!



I've messed around with Fedora in VM and find Fedora Cinnamon buggy with Steam games. I've had better luck with Fedora KDE Plasma but still I'm not 100% sold on it.. as I've only tried it out in VM.

 

[Zepp]

one of the most recommended distros for gamers on various communities I follow including reddit is Bazzite followed by Nobara, both of which are based on Fedora. I also see a fair amount of CatchyOS (arch based) recommended as well. more up to date distros with latest kernel drivers tend to be better for gaming focused PCs.

To me the Fedora-based semi-rolling seems like the perfect balance of up to date and stability. Been using it on my primary machine for 4 months now and just put it on my surface GO tablet. But I also have a 2nd SSD with windows installed to boot over to if I just cant get a game to run right.

 

[Indus]

one of the most recommended distros for gamers on various communities I follow including reddit is Bazzite followed by Nobara, both of which are based on Fedora. I also see a fair amount of CatchyOS (arch based) recommended as well. more up to date distros with latest kernel drivers tend to be better for gaming focused PCs.

To me the Fedora-based semi-rolling seems like the perfect balance of up to date and stability. Been using it on my primary machine for 4 months now and just put it on my surface GO tablet. But I also have a 2nd SSD with windows installed to boot over to if I just cant get a game to run right.

Messed around with it a bit in VM.. not bad at all.

Looks very similar to fedora KDE but with steam preinstalled.