Well I’m hopping around… again. I thought I had a good stable setup going but then something happens upstream that goes against what I want/believe in (looking at you RedHat) and I’m back on the hunt again.

I thought about trying out a Debian based distro but then I thought “why don’t I just use Debian itself (Sid, not stable/Bookworm)”.

Most if not all gaming software have a way to be installed on Debian so I don’t think that could be an issue.

Is anyone else using Sid? Am I missing something by not going with a gaming focused distro??

  • @lal309OPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I’m going to give stable a try and see how far I get with gaming and go from there. I’ve never run straight Debian as a desktop it’s always been on servers so my experience there is limited.

    I’m curious as to the update script you are talking about. Care to point me to an example? Wouldn’t flatpak update do the trick for everything running in flatpaks? And apt update/upgrade for the rest?

    • Yote.zipEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Wouldn’t flatpak update do the trick for everything running in flatpaks? And apt update/upgrade for the rest?

      Yeah exactly. An update script just runs all these updates in a single command

      this is what mine looks like (apparently lemmy does not like &&'s so take care with the & bits): 
      debupdate() {
  echo -e "##======================== Nala upgrades ============================##"
  sudo deb-get update 1> /dev/null # fetch deb-get repos ahead of time just for timing purposes
  sudo nala upgrade # nala is better than apt

  echo -e "##======================== Flatpak upgrades =========================##"
  flatpak update

  echo -e "##======================== deb-get upgrades =========================##"
  sudo deb-get upgrade

  echo -e "##======================== Rust upgrades ============================##"
  export CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_LTO=true
  export RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native"
  rustup update && \
  cargo install-update -a # this is a custom cargo package: https://crates.io/crates/cargo-update - take care as this doesn't inherently recompile with the same flags you originally installed with

  echo -e "##======================== Homebrew upgrades ========================##"
  brew update && \
  brew upgrade

  echo -e "##======================== yt-dlp upgrades ==========================##" # I let yt-dlp manage itself
  $HOME/Applications/yt-dlp/yt-dlp -U

  echo -e "##======================== Antidote upgrades ========================##" # antidote is a zsh plugin manager
  antidote update
  sudo -u root zsh -ci 'antidote update'

  echo -e "##======================== Upgrades Finished ========================##"
}
      • @lal309OPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Ah okay fair enough! Thanks for sticking to the conversation. I will rebase everything to stable and goes that a try for awhile!