Title pretty much says it all. I’ve been using ubuntu as my daily driver for the last 5 years or so and honestly, I’ve had a wonderful experience with it.

That said, with the way things are going, I feel like its only a matter of time before Canonical pulls the rug out so I’d like to at least get my feet wet with something other than Ubuntu and Debian seems like the logical choice.

I mainly use my machines for gaming, self hosting, programming, and weird networking projects/automation testing.

I’ve heard gaming on debian isnt as ‘out of the box’ as it is with Ubuntu. So I’m hoping somone with more experience can share some tips on what I should be looking out for or point me to some good guides. Thanks yall.

EDIT: I fucking love this community. Thank you all for your replies. I appreciate you taking the time to help me out.

  • Espi@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Fedora is fantastic, but I’m a little shaken about Redhat, which is downstream of Fedora and a big supported.

    Also, Fedora is a bit annoying with codecs and non-free software in general. They are extremely anal about not infringing copyright.

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      10 months ago

      I’ve done my share of distro hopping and I must agree with Pantherina@feddit.de.

      Fedora has the near perfect balance of being stable and always up to date. I found the codecs and non-free software to be a non-issue. You enable the RPM Fusion repos and install then like anything else.