GustavoM @ GustavoM @lemmy.world

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Distro with preinstalled packages =/= distro with exclusive features. The same packages available on "gaming distros" are available on any other "non-gaming" distro as well.

Opinions =/= facts. And the fact that every GNU/Linux distro is equally good for gaming and everything else stands true.

Why? Because all GNU/Linux distros are GNU/Linux at heart -- and can be (equally) customized and improved.

Or, in other words -- "Because it's not Windows lmao".

"Gee, folks are hating up on snapd! Hah, I know! Let's make our own .deb and --"

"...but .deb files does not provide isolation or any other sandboxing-related feature."

"OH, SHUT UP NERD!"

There is no such thing as a "gaming distro" -- all GNU/Linux distros are equally good for gaming and any other task.

I won't spoil the whole thing for you, but a couple system-related things can be "masked" (i.e disabled) ending up in a half-functional system (i.e lots of error messages, loading times increased due to it but still functional.).

I also cried internally when I saw Doom ("classic") running at my Linux distro for the first time.

Just you wait until you find out you can (almost) break the OS yet still make it work.

firejail

ufw

And docker if you are paranoid. (You can completely shut off the network of specific commands -- can't get any better (and safer) than that!).

Fair enough. Thank you for your input.

...and also, good ol' baby duck syndrome.

Even then, gaming was 100% doable/acceptable at that time. Even not (just) a year back, but a COUPLE years back.

bemenu, grim, openshot. thorium browser. And lynx for the occasional "Mom, cancel my meetings" moment.

Videogames (also) do get "older" so the "retro" bar tends to raise.

Curiosity, mostly. And Ubuntu giving away freebies.

Took me a couple years to get out of the "Why change a winning team?" mentality and my baby duck syndrome.

Nah, I'm 100% done with Windows. Even if good ol' Bill comes up with something that forces me to use Windows for whatever reason, Linux will always be in my routine thanks to single board computers.

If you have lower expectations, even a potato able to run (just) a web browser can be a "gaming PC"thanks to cloud gaming. Still, theres no such thing as a "best" distro for (something) -- all distros are equally good and able to do any sort of task.

I drink water. So does my wife. Haha

Arch on my "desktop PC", Armbian on my rpi 4, Dietpi soon (tm) on my Orange pi zero 3.

So... install a minimal distro image and the usual with the only caveat of being forced to type something that I want to run in the CLI instead of setting up hotkeys? Such challenge, much horror.

Yep. Did this on my orange pi zero 3 (which has no support on Linux) and it worked. :^)

This. Edit /etc/sources/apt, switch to sid, sudo apt update and you'll have "a better ubuntu."

Not really relevant, but I've got a "rule of thumb" for all security-related issues;

"If it doesn't nuke my PC, then I'm good. If it does, then I'm still good since backups and logs exist, and if it was related to the latest seucirty issue? Then I make a quick patch and/or update. Then back to 1."