I’m looking for a distro that will be able to get the most out of my graphics on an MSI Katana laptop.

Right now I have Debian Bookworm running the Nvidia binary driver, and the graphics lags a bit compared to when this laptop had Windows 11 on it.

I’m playing Final Fantasy XIV, and doing web browsing on it.

I’d like to stay with something Debian based and running Gnome. Ubuntu is not ideal because I have trust issues with Canonical since the Amazon ad debacle back in the late 00s.

Can y’all give suggestions for a distribution that might work better, or some tweaks that might optimize the performance on Debian?

Should I just wait for Trixie and see if that give better performance?

I’m just spitballing for ideas here. Thanks in advance for any advice.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
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    9 hours ago

    I’d like to stay with something Debian based and running Gnome. Ubuntu is not ideal because I have trust issues with Canonical since the Amazon ad debacle back in the late 00s.

    My time has come. This is precisely the use case for PikaOS.

    Their Gnome implementation is top notch, imo, and they are a gaming distro based on Debian (not Ubuntu), using a lot of the same package optimizations as CachyOS and many of the fixes and tweaks from Nobara while still having that Debian base.

    If you want a great gaming experience using Debian, you should do yourself a favor and at least try it out in a VM. Be sure to get the Nvidia version.

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      8 hours ago

      This is what I was looking for! I’ll check it out tonight. Thanks!