Because Larian wouldn’t let them do that. It’s extremely rare for companies to legitimize and officially adopt a fanmade mod as a real product. Larian isn’t licensing the BG3 engine as a game toolkit so there’s no legal avenue for fans to do this.

They would need to make it a new IP with different tech and new assets, which is much much harder than what they’re doing now.

When I tried it, testing was on the same version of Nvidia drivers as stable so it didn’t solve my problem. It was possible to manually backport them, but it wasn’t straightforward to do.

It’s definitely a good thing if you’re interested and knowledgeable enough to build what you want. I was just arguing it’s not the best choice for a casual user because a lot things they’ll want won’t work out of the box.

Even updating to the next stable Debian version requires editing system files and running the command line.

Drivers can matter quite a bit if for example you’re on an Nvidia card and the Debian drivers are 2 years old. It happened to me and caused dlss to not work in some games. And with Nvidia you can’t just move to testing, you need to backport the driversc and that’s quite involved.

I run a Debian server and it’s amazing for that.

You don’t need to manage the exe files. Just install heroic launcher. You can access and install your whole GOG library from there, and you can configure each game with different versions of wine or proton, if you need to. It also integrates with Epic and you can easily add games to Steam as well if needed.

You can even sync the game saves with the GOG cloud, although last time I tried the save sync was a bit clunky.

Did she set it up herself?

Debian is not a good choice for beginners. It’s extremely bare bones compared to Ubuntu or Mint.

Drivers on Debian stable are also heavily outdated