That’s kinda why I said “if it’s a gaming-only computer”. Nobara is the best and simplest out-of-the-box experience for gaming. Do everything through the GUI, treat it like an appliance-ish. Updates, packages, it’s all got its own GUI.
My gaming PC runs a mix of Debian testing with some stuff pulled in from sid and some stuff from experimental (just Mesa, really), plus a Xanmod kernel which updates frequently (I’m not convinced the patches make much difference).
I did all this because I’m a long time Debian user (going almost 3 decades) and I wanted the computer for a bit more than gaming. It’s not without its issues though, and I find myself frequently tinkering and troubleshooting.
I still have a Nobara partition that I can boot into, update and trust that it will be game-ready without fuss.
Most likely you need a newer version of Mesa.
If this is a gaming only computer and you don’t want to go off fussing with installing packages from other sources and maintaining a hybrid system, just install Nobara Linux.
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