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I've been thinking of giving Manjaro a try but has anyone here experienced issues gaming on non-Debian based systems? For instance, if you purchase a game from the Humble Indie bundle, sometimes their only format for the non-DRM version is a .deb package. I've also considered SolydX but I'm wary of the long-term support considering how relatively unpopular it is.
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Manjaro is your go-to solution as far as I'm concerned. It's 100% compatible with Arch, the Arch wiki is one of the greatest documentations available, putting pretty much all "user-friendly" distro to shame, and problems have been few and far between (as well as easily solved) in the year and a half I've been running Arch for gaming.
If you're not afraid of unpacking a deb if it's really needed and using common sense, it shouldn't be a problem.
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I mainly get my games from steam, so no problem of only getting deb files there. There is a way to convert .deb installers to rpm though: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/11/alien-command-examples/ I haven't tried it myself, but from what I've heard it works pretty well (and it's available from the fedora repos).
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http://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository
In general, I get the impression that Ubuntu/Debian users think the whole DEB versus other package formats thing is a lot more important and serious than it actually needs to be. The jump from a Debian to an RPM or to a pacman based system is actually ridiculously easy; you do not need to be as afraid of the outside world as a lot of people seem to be.
That being said, if you disliked a six month release cycle, you may not appreciate what is required to handle a rolling release - nothing too drastic, but you do need to keep on your toes and have a good understanding of how your system works. Not everyone would want to invest that much time in their computer, although as you can see here for many people it is in fact worth it.
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P.S. Xubuntu or Kubuntu still counts as Ubuntu, so you still don't have to put up with Unity-the-desktop-thingy. I always use Xubuntu for that fall-back game partition myself.
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Or was it just me? :|
Some pros:
1. No issues at all running any mainstream Steam games.
2. Anything I installed through the recommended package manager (pacman) worked fine.
3. Easy to setup NVidia drivers.
Then again, these are all things I can get with just about any Linux distro. The main advantage I saw over debian is that there are more and more up-to-date packages in the AUR and official pacman repos. For instance, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is still on 12.x in the Ubuntu repos. With Ubuntu/Mint I have to frequently get many of my game binaries directly from the source websites.
Issues I ran into:
1. Anything I installed through pacman worked fine. The same cannot be said about some of the games I play in the AUR that do not have a big community following but are important to me. For instance, Zandronum (doom source) kept seg-faulting on death. I made sure I had all dependent shared libraries and also ran it through gdb and it really looked as if it were a bug in Zandronum - possibly an incompatibility with the latest kernel. I had a similar issue with doomrl (rogue like) but found the bug related to their sound code and was able to circumvent the problems by disabling sound [in doomrl].
2. Could not play ZDaemon through wine - it kept crashing. Again this is probably related to the new-ness of my kernel/wine and not Arch/Manjaro but it does speak to the merits of using an older/stable kernel. Very little in terms of support online for this as ZDaemon has a relatively small following.
3. Unable to get ps3 media server to stream mkv files with subtitles to a ps3. It uses mencoder and I got it working with out subtitles. Unfortunately the error messages from the ps3 media server provide very little insight into what is going wrong so there is really no way to figure out if I am missing a codec of some sort, however I have no problem viewing the mkv files in SMPlayer.
4. Possibly an xfce issue, but occasionally the OS interpreted my mouse-wheel as being locked on the "up" position. This would happen occasionally (once every few hours) while on the desktop and the workaround is to unplug the mouse and plug it back in. I have a Razer Abyssus which does not have any Linux drivers.
I thought I wanted a cutting edge kernel and what I realized is what I really needed was stability. Most the games/apps I play or use are either 5+ years old or run in Unity engine. Even if I want to play something new like Serious Sam 3 you can do so with an old Mint/Ubuntu distro w/ the latest NVIdia drivers.