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[–] seralth@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ubuntu literally has never in it's history been a good gaming distro. It use to just be a popular one. But all of the Deb/apt distros have never been "good choices"

Arch and Gentoo were always the better options. And it's really only recently that the rest become reasonable options.

Gaming has historically been best on absolutely bleeding edge distros with a bunch of hacky community patches and fixes.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

As I said, it was a good distro that could do gaming and still be used as a stable daily driver workstation without needing to dual boot.