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[-] yessikg@fedia.io 12 points 13 hours ago

I don't get this obsession with always having the latest and greatest. I'm more of a "if it isn't broke don't fix it" kind of person

[-] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It turns out that there isn't one big break, there are many small cracks that have been patched. I was reading about 13% performance increase in benchmarks, which seems significant.

Ah, here it is: https://www.phoronix.com/review/debian-13-benchmarks

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 4 points 10 hours ago

More like "If it isn't as good as it could be, don't do anything to improve it."

[-] xav@programming.dev 4 points 11 hours ago

So I guess you're still using a PSTN modem ?

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago

"For now", is more like it.

This happens with every refresh ๐Ÿ˜‚ 6 months from now you'll be fighting to get Mesa updated or something.

[-] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago
[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

If you're asking for problems, I suppose you could do that, but they still aren't updated regularly. Slightly before testing releases hit. That's nowhere near where it needs to be for gaming desktops for most people.

[-] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 1 points 12 minutes ago

Backports are specifically tested for the purpose of being compatible with stable, so there should be no issues.

I can't really comment on what what gaming desktops need, I feel like you could absolutely play games without the latest drivers at all times, but I don't play any modern AAA games.

If you need bleeding edge software, then don't install Debian, for sure. Or go unstable with all the potential issues.

[-] GenChadT@programming.dev 1 points 18 hours ago

Ugh, too true. I'm using 13 now after a long hiatus of Windows only desktops and was shocked to find KDE had undergone yet another refresh.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 15 points 23 hours ago

What was stopping the person before? I've been using debian as my desktop for years.

[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 15 points 20 hours ago

Watching the video, the main reason is native up-to-date drivers, mostly for nvidia

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 hours ago

I'm not into videos, but yeah ok, the person had a particular obnoxious computer that they wanted to use, rather than something being wrong with debian. I always take linux compatibility into account when buying hardware in the first place.

[-] OrekiWoof@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 hours ago
[-] eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

You don't pick hardware to support you OS? Weird.

[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

Same: just built a frankenstein PC of spare parts gathered with the purpose of running Debian 13 on it because that's what I love. But I also recognise that I know my way around stuff when I need to troubleshoot...

[-] illusionist@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

With flatpak and distrobox, the underlying system and package manager does not matter too much anymore to the end user.

[-] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

bs-manager flatpak won't work, the AUR version does. That's more convincing than I'll ever need to go back to Arch.

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 8 points 12 hours ago

Some people prefer to have a game mod manager working immediately, others prefer their system working for years instead of failing to boot after an update.

[-] Miaou@jlai.lu 1 points 1 hour ago

And then those who want both use arch. I know we love our memes, but this one is really out of date.

this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2025
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