Nobody (or at least very few) puts Debian or Ubuntu LTS on their “Top 5 Gaming Distro” listicles, but literally every single one of them is putting Mint. When I installed Mint a couple months back, the kernel was on 5.2.x and I forget which version the mesa stack was on but it was very outdated as well.
Don’t get me wrong, Mint is awesome and I loved it while I used it. But if you just built a brand new machine and want to do some linux gaming, there are probably better choices.
Nobody (or at least very few) puts Debian or Ubuntu LTS on their “Top 5 Gaming Distro” listicles, but literally every single one of them is putting Mint. When I installed Mint a couple months back, the kernel was on 5.2.x and I forget which version the mesa stack was on but it was very outdated as well.
Don’t get me wrong, Mint is awesome and I loved it while I used it. But if you just built a brand new machine and want to do some linux gaming, there are probably better choices.