What are some significant differences to expect when switching to an alternative, and can that affect gaming compatibility and performance?
What are some significant differences to expect when switching to an alternative, and can that affect gaming compatibility and performance?
If you are asking about “gaming compatibility” you should not switch to a non-systemd distro. You will end up going through extra hoops for zero benefit.
What kind of extra hoops? Or maybe it’s the type of games?
Asking because I switched to Devuan on my gaming PC and I didn’t need to do anything specific for games to work (Steam and Lutris).
The only exception is The Last Caretaker (UE5) that requires more recent NVIDIA drivers than those in the Debian repos, but that has nothing to do with systemd, it’s Debian/Devuan being conservative with updates to guarantee stability.