I want to make Debian work, please help (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by absurdity_of_it_all@lemmy.ml to c/debian@lemmy.ml

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I've been using Fedora for the past few months and Pop OS for some months before that.

Debian was my first choice after Pop because of ideological reasons - non corporate structure mainly. But I couldn't get games to work properly (my PC is only 7-8 months old). So I've been trying Fedora, but the more I learn about Red Hat and it's involvement, it's harder to stick to the distro.

What would be a good way to setup Debian (and KDE, because apparently GNOME is also Red Hat's, although I do like the environment) so that it works well for my use case? The two year old DE and app versions does bother me but I guess I can learn to live with it. Do I try testing? Do I use backports?

PC specs: Ryzen 5 5600 Processor, RX 7600 GPU

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[-] keithduthie@mastodon.nz 5 points 1 year ago

@absurdity_of_it_all Have you tried installing the kernel and mesa packages from backports?

[-] absurdity_of_it_all@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I will try that, thank you. Are those just two packages I need to get from backports or are there dependencies and stuff that will come up?

[-] keithduthie@mastodon.nz 1 points 1 year ago

@absurdity_of_it_all You'll want to add the backports repo, and install the relevant packages from there. https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

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