cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100
Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.
As far as my novice knowledge understands, this isn’t a fixable “issue”. But I’d love to use Debian as my main OS for everything, but I know there’s gonna be issues with Steam/GOG games and GPU drivers. My patience and tolerance with “daily drivers” is much lower than my servers, so as far as I know that pretty much limits me to Mint (which isn’t as cool)
I ran Debian as my main OS for years around 2005-2010 or so. If you run the testing branch it gets you pretty new stuff. Just don’t run the testing branch for a few months after they do a stable release as that’s when all the big breaking changes take place. Also, Trixie is still relatively new and has a new enough kernel to make most GPU stuff work well. If you need a newer kernel it’s not too difficult to build a new one and use that so you can get fresher amdgpu modules, for example.
There’s also Ubuntu.
What about trying a non-Debian distro that “just works?” The only main difference is package managers, and some files being in a different place (excluding home directory).