“For now”, is more like it.
This happens with every refresh 😂 6 months from now you’ll be fighting to get Mesa updated or something.
Is that not in Backports?
If you’re asking for problems, I suppose you could do that, but they still aren’t updated regularly. Slightly before testing releases hit. That’s nowhere near where it needs to be for gaming desktops for most people.
Backports are specifically tested for the purpose of being compatible with stable, so there should be no issues.
I can’t really comment on what what gaming desktops need, I feel like you could absolutely play games without the latest drivers at all times, but I don’t play any modern AAA games.
If you need bleeding edge software, then don’t install Debian, for sure. Or go unstable with all the potential issues.
Ugh, too true. I’m using 13 now after a long hiatus of Windows only desktops and was shocked to find KDE had undergone yet another refresh.
With flatpak and distrobox, the underlying system and package manager does not matter too much anymore to the end user.
Assuming most end users for Debian even have monitors connected…
bs-manager flatpak won’t work, the AUR version does. That’s more convincing than I’ll ever need to go back to Arch.
Some people prefer to have a game mod manager working immediately, others prefer their system working for years instead of failing to boot after an update.
And then those who want both use arch. I know we love our memes, but this one is really out of date.
I don’t get this obsession with always having the latest and greatest. I’m more of a “if it isn’t broke don’t fix it” kind of person
It turns out that there isn’t one big break, there are many small cracks that have been patched. I was reading about 13% performance increase in benchmarks, which seems significant.
Ah, here it is: https://www.phoronix.com/review/debian-13-benchmarks
If you have an nvidia card, which is very common and can’t always be avoided, there is significant benefit in newer drivers, for one
More like “If it isn’t as good as it could be, don’t do anything to improve it.”
So I guess you’re still using a PSTN modem ?
