A few days ago I published my Debian setup for gaming. Let me know if anything in there doesn’t make sense or could be improved!
Nice approach
I take that as my fallback solution when my Nobara installation’s stability problems overwhelm me again. Maybe switching OS at some point.
However, you just covered the most important / critical part: the basics. The rest of the setup must still have been some tedious work.
This is prety much it actually.
I did do a lot more stuff but only things specific to my personal setup, like having the games on a separate Btrfs partition which can be mounted from other OSs, that kind of stuff.
Assumin all one wants to do is install a few games from Steam, once the setup I described is done, everything is an
apt install steamaway.
nice. this gives me the incentive to continue down that path. already have one TB SSD for if, not hard to add a second
This is fantastic! I recently installed Debian after not having tried it for years, and was wondering what the best way to get things such as newer versions of Mesa is.
In your article you brought up alternative Kernel options, from what I’ve always been told these kernels don’t really make a massive difference than the regular kernel. Do you have any experience with the ones you mentioned, and if so did either have an actual impact for you?
Additionally, since I’ve only recently started using AMD cards (took me a bit to scrape up the money to move over from Nvidia, but it has been done thankfully) are there any details on what the additional firmware components add on? I have a 6700 XT so I’m not sure if that counts as being new enough to need them (I suspect it doesn’t but figured I’d check).
I run a bog standard bookworm + kde. Only needed to update kernel from backports when I replaced my aging 1060 with an rx6750xt for more recent amdgpu firmware. Games run just fine. Solid as a rock.
Awesome stuff! I’m running KDE as well - can’t wait for Plasma 6 to start hitting the repos to get HDR on CP2077.
I have an even newer GPU so a more current kernel was needed. I went with
testingbecause I prefer to follow a more up-to-date system, and it’s almost as solid asstableso I don’t see many downsides. I wouldn’t do it on a server but on the desktop I can easily work around or fix whatever minor nags appear.I really wanted to get Mesa from
experimentalthough as it follows upstream pretty closely (just a few days lag usually), andtestingbeing generally closer to it probably helps. Or not, I haven’t really tested that assumption. :D
