I’ve recently migrated from endeavour OS to debian for more stability (I updated my endeavour os and a huge graphical bug occurred, so I just gave up on arch based distros).
Then I installed steam following this tutorial https://wiki.debian.org/Steam#Installing_Steam, but I noticed that after playing Farlight 84 for a few minutes, the game would behave in 1 of these 2 ways:
- The game and steam closes.
- The whole OS freezes and the only solution is to restart the laptop.
I think it’s something ram related, but the game never closed nor crashed my whole system on endeavour os, so maybe is something about a graphical driver?
Here’s my neofetch output, please tell me if I need to provide some additional output:
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64
Host: 82X5 IdeaPad 1 15AMN7
Kernel: 6.1.0-17-amd64
Packages: 2158 (dpkg) Shell: bash 5.2.15
Resolution: 1366x768 DE: Plasma 5.27.5
WM: KWin
Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7520U with Radeon Graphics (8) @ 2.800GHz
GPU: AMD ATI 04:00.0 Mendocino
Memory: 2816MiB / 6663MiB
Debian isn’t the best choice if you’re a gamer. That kernel for instance (6.1) is ancient, you’re missing out on a ton of cool features and improvements which have been made since then. Your graphics stack (Mesa) is also likely to be outdated.
I’d recommend switching back to EndeavourOS, or if you’d like something more stable, try Nobara. Another alternative, if you favor stability, is Bazzite - which is an immutable OS with a built-in rollback feature, so if you find an update broke something you could just select the previous version of the image from GRUB and keep it pinned, until it’s fixed (you’ll still get app updates though via Distrobox, Flatpak etc).