Mike Oct 27, 2023

Ok #gaming #linux folks. If you were building a Linux gaming PC (mainly steam) what distro would you install?

ChimeraOS, Nobara, something else?

Show threadZazzoo 🇨🇦Oct 27, 2023

@codemonkeymike SteamOS is built on Debian so personally I'd go with Debian, though you'd probably have great results with pretty much any downstream Debian distro like Ubuntu - or Pop like @techaddressed mentioned, System76 made some nice UI tweaks in Pop.

Edit: ^^^^ Based on outdated information, see Robert's response.

Show threadRobert @ Tech AddressedOct 27, 2023
@zazzoo @codemonkeymike Steam OS is built on Arch actually but I've never had an Arch based system that didn't eventually become a nightmare.
Show threadZazzoo 🇨🇦
@techaddressed @codemonkeymike You're right, apologies for misinformation! They switched distros after I first played with it.
Oct 27, 2023 at 3:47amWeb
Show threadRobert @ Tech AddressedOct 27, 2023
@zazzoo @codemonkeymike honest mistake.
Show threadZazzoo 🇨🇦Oct 27, 2023
@techaddressed @codemonkeymike I'd still personally go with Debian. You're right about Arch.
Show threadMike Oct 27, 2023

@zazzoo @techaddressed yeah it's interesting they chose arch. But they made it immutable and control the packages. So it's not really arch anymore lol.

But yeah. Stable base, hard to beat Debian or pop etc

Show threadZazzoo 🇨🇦Oct 27, 2023
@codemonkeymike @techaddressed Back when I was playing with it, it wasn't so much stability of the base OS as much as the availability of an apt PPA that gave me automatic updates and kept all the system dependencies in order.