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recklessswing

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From: Türkiye

Registered: 2020-12-18

Posts: 125  

Devuan and gaming, any benefits?

I play older games such as Skyrim Special Edition, or ETS2 anyway. Or Doom Eternal, Civ5-6 sometimes. These games won't benefit from Archlinux or anything.

golinux

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 3,434  

Re: Devuan and gaming, any benefits?

Is there benefit to spending ANY time on gaming?

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EDX-0

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Registered: 2020-12-12

Posts: 115  

Re: Devuan and gaming, any benefits?

yes, it can be relaxing after hours of debugging your code cuz it doesn't work as intended.

brocashelm

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Registered: 2020-06-29

Posts: 133  

Re: Devuan and gaming, any benefits?

I recommend the following retro and indie game emulators (most can easily be installed with your package manager):

• DeSmuMe

• Dolphin Emulator

• DuckStation (download the last functional AppImage for Daedalus here)

• EasyRPG Player (use the official repository here)

• FCEUX

• I.K.E.M.E.N. GO / Ikemen GO (download the official binary here)

• Kega Fusion (download the DEB binary here)

• mGBA

• Mupen64Plus-Qt

• PCSX2 (use the 1.7.0 64-bit version from the official PPA)

• RPCS3 (download the AppImage here)

• Snes9x (download from their GitHub or use the 1.60 DEB binary that one of the project's maintainers Bearoso compiled)

jeudii.nqn

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From: Good question

Registered: 2025-05-31

Posts: 1  

Re: Devuan and gaming, any benefits?

Is there benefit to spending ANY time on gaming? wink

It is a good question. A really good question.

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greenjeans

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Registered: 2017-04-07

Posts: 923  

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Re: Devuan and gaming, any benefits?

Is there benefit to spending ANY time on gaming?

Yes. A number of them actually.

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swanson

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Registered: 2020-04-22

Posts: 117  

Re: Devuan and gaming, any benefits?

I've got Steam, Lutris and Playonlinux working with PC games. But of course, not all games/versions. Devuan seems to have good support for those and the underlying Wine. Been running this Devuan setup for years.

By the way, you are allowed to play as much as you want. But I also recommend Hiking and Biking as compliments.