I remember trying all this on GNOME before finding the extension. But I’ll check again, thank you

Display & Monitor says Built in Screen. The brightness slider here doesn’t work either. What else can I check?

But Solus is rolling release.

Similar thoughts and after hopping a bit I’m liking Solus really well. It’s rolling release but what they call “curated” rolling release. They take a little bit of time to iron stuff out. There’s a weekly update cycle.

The installation is through live ISO and was pretty easy, took only a few minutes. They have a Plasma ISO too, since you mentioned wanting KDE.

As a plus, I’ve not once used the command prompt in the past couple of months since I installed (GNOME first and then since the last week, KDE). I’m not averse to commands but I do want something that I can recommend to my less techy anti-capitalist friends. My games have all been working fine too.

Edit to add: I think they’ve also mentioned that their aim is for a personal desktop.

Some stuff that works great with Lutris or Heroic on Fedora, just wouldn’t even start up on Debian. I tried a couple of things but nothing worked. I thought it might be a new parts issue stable is 2 years old at this point.

I’m going to see if I can first try kernel+mesa backports (after trying the games again just on stable). If that doesn’t work I might give testing a go.

I want to know what kind of setup would avoid issues with games. I know I can run Debian with KDE from the installer. I had issues with games on plain stable so I wanted to know what can be done

I will try that, thank you. Are those just two packages I need to get from backports or are there dependencies and stuff that will come up?