Nobody (or at least very few) puts Debian or Ubuntu LTS on their “Top 5 Gaming Distro” listicles
I would absolutely put Ubuntu LTS at the number one spot by a country mile. I just want to play games. I don’t want to spend hours tinkering or installing untested bleeding edge software in the hope of getting 2 more FPS. I did a lot of that 20 years ago because I am a hardcore nerd, but nowadays I want well-tested software that means everything works well out of the box.
I see problems coming up in this sub time and again that look like “I’m using libfrobnizzle-2.9.9-alpha7 and all of my colours are inverted”, where people respond like “lol you noob; that’s ancient history, it’s almost a week old - libfrobnizzle-2.9.9-alpha9-pre6.1 came out 17 seconds ago, just upgrade”. Meanwhile libfrobnizzle-2.8.42 works perfectly.
I would absolutely put Ubuntu LTS at the number one spot by a country mile. I just want to play games. I don’t want to spend hours tinkering or installing untested bleeding edge software in the hope of getting 2 more FPS. I did a lot of that 20 years ago because I am a hardcore nerd, but nowadays I want well-tested software that means everything works well out of the box.
I see problems coming up in this sub time and again that look like “I’m using libfrobnizzle-2.9.9-alpha7 and all of my colours are inverted”, where people respond like “lol you noob; that’s ancient history, it’s almost a week old - libfrobnizzle-2.9.9-alpha9-pre6.1 came out 17 seconds ago, just upgrade”. Meanwhile libfrobnizzle-2.8.42 works perfectly.