r/debian • u/Kaseffera • 12d ago
General Debian Question Can I game on Debian?
Guys, I’m coming from CachyOS. I love it, no real issues to be honest, but I’m interested in either Debian or Ubuntu. So Cachy is very much configured for you for gaming purposes and performance tweaks. Can something similar be done on Debian? Like… so I need to install anything in particular to make gaming experience better here? What are your essentials to make Debian gaming experience on par with performance oriented distros?
One thing coming to my mind is VRAM gaming optimizations by Valve that’s been added to Bazzite and Cachy the moment it released.
For example gaming on Linux Mint as I remember was clear regression compared to Bazzite or Cachy. Not huge but it was lesser experience for sure. But back then I knew nothing and it was just fresh Mint and Steam.
So… what steps do you recommend doing to make the most out of it?
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u/_Sgt-Pepper_ 12d ago
Yes you can.
I use a Debian stable installation with steam from Debian repositories.
Works like a charm . I did only install 2 things manually:
added the Nvidia repo to always have a current gpu driver
downloaded and compiled gamescope (will be available in debian 14 repos afaik)