Distro for linux PC in living room

[humbug]

hello

I will be building a PC in an HTPC case that will be connected to a receiver + home theater + 4K TV via HDMI. I will be using this for playing local media files (movies, TV series, music) as well as streaming media from the Internet. Also I want steam installed to occasionally play a game with a controller from the couch so would like to be up to date with graphics drivers.

The CPU will be ivy bridge i7 3770k, Z77 mobo and 8GB RAM (cause I already have these), will purchase some AMD graphics card for it.

Would appreciate your recommendations and experiences regarding suitable distros for this purpose.

[ROKO__]

Debian is very bad choise, specialy for gaming on linux.

[ROKO__]

so that have been on ubuntu, maybe tomorow i will try on gentoo.
And please stop flaming I know that you are debian fanboy.
And if i am a beginner how i install gentoo ?
There is something releated to Debian, Ubuntu systems, for this terrible lag, framedrop and sluttering, or even in mesa. I cannot be sure. And specially for input lag.

[ROKO__]

i just test ofcourse with ubuntu 16.10 and Debian 8. But i wouldn't gonna use them, they lacks flexability.
And specially Debian lacks a lot of software which is available in ubuntu for example. I can test your suggestion on seperate partition, but as i said no flexability in Debian, and this is not stable distribution with unstable and testing packages. Gentoo Unstable is a bit stable than Debian Stable.

[ROKO__]

yeah thats good. i do reports too.
But forum conversation is good too, for users expiriance.
If you discover some issue, you can ask at the forum.

[ROKO__]

Debian testing is just testing version, its not rolling release. Rolling Release is Arch Linux or Gentoo or Exherbo.
So probably i would gonna try this evening, when i'm at home.

[ROKO__]

No offense please!
I am linux user since 2006, and former developer of linux distribution.
And i don't care about your opinion, and even more for Debian. For me Debian is nothing.
But i respect hard work of team. And thats why we have a thousand of distributions.
So there is freedom for everybody.
Don't be rude and arogant.

[towo2099]

Speaking with debianxfce is a big waste of time.
He is a troll and moron who thinks, only his opinion is the truth.

[ROKO__]

i see, and i remember that.

[ROKO__]

i don't think so there is any improvement in amdgpu against radeon driver.