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I have been here on Lemmy since Reddit killed Apollo (3rd party API fiasco), and for Linux I have been using it mainly for gaming since 2024 I believe?
I moved over to Linux when I saw how good the Steam Deck was running emulators and thought "Why the hell not try it out on my desktop?".
I started with openSUSE, but learned last year near Christmas that maybe it was a little too bleeding edge for a newbie like me who just wants to game as their only real use case for the gaming desktop.
I'm on Fedora now almost a year in, and am enjoying it more that it isn't as bleeding edge as SUSE, but still more updated than Debian for my more modern games that I like to try out.
How about you? If that's okay to ask? I realize a comment section on a meme page may not be the ideal place, but conversations are always welcome. :-]
Oh I've been self-hosting since 2009, switched to Linux in 2011, finally ditched Windows as a daily driver last year when I picked up a Legion Go and got it loaded up with steam OS.
I've distro-hopped quite a lot between then and now, but funny enough I ended up landing where I started when recommending a newbie friendly distro: mint with kde plasma. That's my desktop daily driver now. I've tried bleeding edge in many different flavors and always end up finding I can start from a stable baseline and customize the kernel and modules as needed. Now I've got all my favorite emulators and recompiled games working flawlessly, and I've started working on a decomp of my own for an old Windows 98 game. I've already successfully ported it and fixed a few runtime bugs, trying to get it fully stable before I start remastering it in godot.
Server-side, I tend to stick with either Debian or Rocky and build on top of those.