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Last edited by Jared on 27 July 2020 at 5:58 pm UTC
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This Morning and it was explainning how POP os 19.04 was such native to Games and Steam
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Yes
thats exactly what i meant
I never had any Luck with KDE
i just dont know i tried installing 2 times and it just did not work for me
i liked very much openbox
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Recent packages will contain fixes, new features and performance improvements etc.
For easier setup you can also use programs like Lutris on these rolling release systems, so I don't see any advantage in "stable" distros.
The only difference is probably the system setup itself.
That can be a bit easier on "stable" distros, but this is also not always given.
Some people seem to hate tweaking configs so much, that even a one-liner is too much.
That said even on Arch it is fairly easy to setup everything, for example: just install the gpu driver packages (in my case: nvidia) and your gpu works.
This is a common misconception from people that don't use Ubuntu or one of its derivatives.
The kernel and Mesa get regular updates through the Hardware Enablement stack. The Nvidia drivers get updated through the Stable Release Updates, the same as browsers and such. All packages get security patches and bugfixes backported over the course of the support period. Steam updates itself, obviously.
If you want software with newer features, there are PPAs, snaps, flatpaks, and appimages.
Gaming rigs aren't desperate for bleeding-edge LibreOffice.
People that want to use a rolling-release distro should definitely do so, but it is absolutely not the case that people that want to game must use a rolling-release distro.