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Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We're talking about two different versions of Debian here.

Normally, Debian means Debian Stable, a branch actually meant for the end users. The latest Debian version in that regard is Debian 13 (Trixie), which was released on the 9th of August and will be mostly unchanged for the coming 2 years. This thing is super stable and rock solid, and is what Debian is famous for.

PikaOS is based on another branch, Debian Unstable (Sid), which is meant exclusively for developers to test out how well their newest packages work together. Critical bugs are a normal expected occurrence here. One update may bork your desktop, the other can introduce massive security vulnerabilities, etc. It is the first line of testing, after which there's another branch (called, well, Debian Testing), and only then after scrupulous testing it gets to Stable.

So, what you are using is not the stable and reliable Debian as most people know it, but something on top of a dynamite house. It's a very, very bleeding and bloody edge software you got there, and while I believe the PikaOS devs do their best to react to massive bug reports, they are unlikely to verify all packages could work well together. I'd expect at least some annoying unfixable issues here and there.