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That's fair but Debian is shipping you multi year old packages when you want the latest drivers and mesa for games.

Bazzite has those, and you can just jump into a Debian Distrobox for development.



Debian 13 has mesa 25 which seems to be the latest or very close to the latest and installing an updated kernel was trivial via backports.

People exaggerate the problems of using a stable distro.


>People exaggerate the problems of using a stable distro.

Stability isn't a problem, it's a feature. Companies trust Debian, Ubuntu LTS, etc. for their servers EXACTLY because the packages are old.

This isn't the case with desktop computers, where the latest optimizations are delivered weekly if not monthly, and may improve performance across the board.


Sorry, but Debian 13 was recently released. Just three months ago, you would have been stuck on Mesa 22.




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