Thanks for the kind words on your review! I'm glad your experience has been well! As for the package manager bits -- the two main reasons we switched to yumex-dnf + bauh instead of the normal software centers is for two main reasons: 1. i wanted to show a specific split difference between flatpaks and normal packages so that new users dont confuse the two, and 2. I found that at least with gnome-software it does not install 32 bit versions of packages (which are needed for things like wine or nvidia drivers). While the default software centers still remain for installation unfortunately people aren't keen on the defaults so we may switch back. Apart from that the distro has really reached a pretty good stable point. This year in general Nobara has gone through a lot of changes, I'm hoping now that most of the major kinks are worked out we'll have a solid release when 37 is ready.
Awesome thanks for the reply and clearing some of this up. We all appreciate it and all the work you do. Some fantastic stuff! Looking forward to future releases and watching everything grow and develop.
Do you think you could build a Debian based version? I’m currently running Debian, and it’ll be easier to switch from Debian to a Debian based distro instead of Debian to a Fedora based distro.
I love linux reviewers. "Finally, the perfect distro to never disrto hop again... Until I make a new video a month from now saying this again about a completely different distro!" It's the true mark of a RU-vid linux user!
>be tech channel reviewing a linux distro >absolutely no mention of how the terminal is, and/or if there's any cool utils that come with this specific distro >shows it's good for gaming Yeah, he probably would've been better off with macOS but then you can't flex about being linux user 😂
Ой, да ладно тебе, ахаахх, время меняется, на определённый промежуток времени свой "лучший дистрибутив". Всё тоже самое и с играми, то один шутер является лучшим для группы людей, они играют в него, то уходят в другой шутер, где больше механик, лучше поддержка, тут как бы ничего плохого нет.
what a time to be alive. I remember back when I was on Linux as my default machine struggling to get 1 or 2 games running. now you can build a gaming rig and use Linux as your. main OA and have enourmous game availability. I ordered a steam deck out of enthusiasm and I have been shocked at compatibility and that I could just switch to desktop a d. e running Linux. I've been using windows/macOS for the last few years. I think I may need to go into Linux again.
Indeed, I still remember spending a considerable amount of time reading about Linux OS and fiddling with its distros in the early-to-mid 2000s, but gaming compatibility issues alone eventually kept me just on Windows, even though I knew Linux distros could easily satisfy like 80% of my general PC computer needs. And to be fair, it's only now with Valve pushing its Arch based Steam OS 3.0 with its Proton compatibility layer that the idea of finally being able to do (Windows) gaming and general PC tasks on just 1 Linux distro is something that could very soon be a viable and widespread option...
This is the type of thing that Microsoft is trying to prevent. Once people realize that Linux runs as good and better than windows, they'll start losing market cap. You can run almost every windows program on Linux without much hassle, and the programs run BETTER
Gems running? I remember back in the time how happy I was when I managed to get X-Window working with resolution... 320x200 and 16 colours :) Good old times...
Nobara is absolutely awesome. While I use Manjaro as my daily driver for work or entertainment. I have this distro installed in my gaming/video editing rig, the work done by GE really shows!
@@alro7779 In theory it should but it's best to check Proton compatibility and try to run in on a VM or live to test. I managed to improve Monster Hunter World by switching to experimental and enabling Dx12, I have heard that for Scum you need to use an old Proton build 6.21-GE-2 but there's no multiplayer bc of the anti-cheat.
_the perfect Linux Distro_ - well... I'd Rather go with what Anthony Young from LTT said: Since Linux is so configurable and unlike Windows or Mac is not locked down it doesn't matter what distro you choose because you can change everything you want on any system. You end up picking a distro as base that is closest to your needs and configure it to your liking.
Yes you can do anything. If you're a huge nerd who thinks education sites and tutorials are too low level. These different distros add better GPU support or compatibility features with different APIs or hardwares. It's quite misleading when people say "you can change everything". That's like saying everyone can program an engine or "anyone can cook". Not everything can be added or changed so easily. Especially things that take entire companies and dedicated communities to just make sure it works. Try making Wine from scratch.
I've been using Nobara for the past few weeks on a very similar laptop and the experience has been great! Performance and stability is better than on PopOS.
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Looks like you have some problems with temperatures on your laptop. You have gpu usage less then 90% (in some cases much less), low fps and cpu temperature close to 100. So, looks like fps cpu limited and cpu have some throttling issue. Or is it because of streaming?
For newcomers, people not wanting to learn Linux in depth or someone who just want to go at it without all the hassles is great, I used fedora for half a year and was a great experience but I'm back to arch based
I heard great things about it so I tried it out for a while. After about a week I started missing Void and decided to return home to it. But Nobara was nice.
Nobara is good if you have hardware that needs specific kernel patches. (Like some controllers.) But for most people, you won’t need those and you’d be better off using Fedora because Nobara breaks important security features like SELinux and Secure Boot because of those patches.
Nobara does not "break" SELinux. It's shipped in passive mode which means it logs everything but does not block anything. You can easily set it to enabled/disabled/passive in /etc/selinux/config + reboot, and can view all of the logs in setroubleshootd. As for secureboot you would have the same problem with any other customized kernel, which most people commonly do anyway while gaming (zen, liquorix). People seem to really like fear mongering on SELinux because they don't know anything about it or how it works.
@@GloriousEggroll Thanks for clearing this out. Was a bit confused about the SELinux stuff there for a momoent. Also, is secure boot really that necessary on a personal computer that sits at home?
I set Selinux config in enforcing mode, right after fresh install of this great distro. And unless you have Nvidia GPU, secure boot option should not disturb you. Everything works fine, max FPS a little bit higher than on other distros, and lower fps is much better.I`m using KDE version and Nvidia drivers from repository breaks my Wayland session, so i installed it manually, directly from nvidia official site.
@@GloriousEggroll that's the thing. I don't consider a gaming rig a throw away machine. I think such things need to be communicated clearly, we fail very much at it in the Linux community. We can't have at the same time the message that Linux is more secure bla bla and at the same time lowering barriers because we want to run some non upstreamed patches. This is exactly why I would never play something like valorant that installs a kernel anti cheat on windows... That's just crazy. Most people run a multi usage machine, the ones that actually run custom kernels are a minority of a minority. They are Linux users that want something very specific. So I appreciate the work that you're doing, but I wouldn't run a machine with such changes (specially laptops). Even though, yes, I agree, we can live fine without secure boot and without selinux. I find it absolutely disgusting that we have to go to MS to get the bootloader signed... It should be an open foundation. But that's a different talk... There's much work to be done on that front. Thanks for the blog post, but nothing new under the sun. Hopefully more and more OEM's will start using coreboot instead of UEFI, one can dream...
I'm much more of an EndeavourOS fan but I've kept an eye on Nobara since GE first introduced it. I even used some stuff from his Nobara COPR when I was on Fedora and really enjoyed it. Nobara is definitely the next distro I'll hop to when I feel like using something else!
I came from Endeavour to it for my main machine. I'm probably strange saying this but I prefer pacman and yay to what it has. But that said, it does seem more stable, after I dealt with some opening installation issues. Endeavour wasn't bad stability wise but I had some random gtk issue a few months ago where certain apps wouldn't load child windows. That did auto-correct with new packages a few days later, but I had no idea how to resolve it while it was going on. I just had to not use those apps.
@@Korodarn I use Garuda, another Arch derivative. While I use KDE daily, this is why I always have Gnome installed. Just in case when any KDE app mess up (although probably fixed a few days later), I can use its Gnome counterparts for the time being.
What a coincidence, I have downloaded nobara & am thinking of testing it. But I have a few concerns, About the dev: 1. Isn't nobara maintained by a single developer? 2. Since the dev is involved in other projects & this distro is he going to keep supporting it in the long run or burn out? About the OS security: Since gaming is the sole priority & the OS has a many changes & bunch of proprietary programs. 1. How fast are updates added compared to fedora WS? 2. More importantly how fast are security patches & bug fixes updated, especially system updates? 3. How do the gaming oriented kernel changes affect security? Do they make the security model weaker?, decrease the hardening? 4. Don't the bundled proprietary software increase the attack surface? 5. Does it have the same secure boot support that fedora has? My main concerns are longterm support, reliability, security & privacy because Nobara OS really solves my gaming, customisation & usability needs.
It's really just a tweaked version of Fedora. All the main updates and security patches come from Fedora repositories. When you click down on the website there is a good disclaimer talking about what to expect from the system.
In terms of security, SELinux is set to permissive mode by default which isn't particularly great if you care about security (it doesn't block anything, it only logs suspicious stuff to some file somewhere but we all know 99% of users using the distro will never read it). You can change it back to enforcing manually though.
I've installed Nobara KDE on a laptop and got graphical package manager that was not that great honestly, but the new one you showed and I got installed on the desktop I really dislike a lot more. Never tried changing it, this'll be the first. Other than that, it's been pretty darn good so far.
Yea they removed the default app centers and added this extremely ugly package manager that looks like we have gone back to 2008. Its so ugly and slow, I can't believe how could it be shipped like this to users and thinking it was "ready". I really hate this change and would love for them to go back to original app centers, that make the distro feel more modern
A really nice review: delivered with great depth and good humour. Your pleasure with the distribution was palpable. It sounds like a fantastic distro, and one that I'll definitely give a try. I'm not a gamer, but I do want a solid, easy-to-use distro that looks good, and lets me be productive.
I was also an EndeavourOS user but switched to Fedora with cinnamon de for stability. This setting is the best for me after using several linux distro. But Nobara is luring me to distro hop again!
When I tried it out, the installer for the KDE flavor of Nobara crashed before coming to an end. I cannot recommend a distro that seems to depend (more or less) upon a single person.
As someone who's dipped into Linux a couple times with a dual boot in about 15 years and very quickly switched back. Even though I'm computer savvy, I want something I can instal and have almost noooothing else to have to do to make things work, no pain in the ass mission to install packages and repo's just to get a graphics card working etc. Something that just works. Embrace the consumer, maybe this is the one.
honestly, default Kubuntu is great. I've had zero issues with it. Everything just, works for me. Normally windows will generally have fewer problems them Linux. But I've had genuinely no problems running anything i want on Kubuntu with ease. KDE for life.
This is great. The definitive gaming distro. I'm tired of stock distros, you need to make a lot of changes (some too advanced to regular users) to get games work and get good FPS in them. I think that the only thing I need to modify in this distro is disabling the meltdown and spectre patches, to get better CPU power, IDC for the risk, I want power XD. Glorious Eggroll is a f*cking legend, that a good job!
Не, как по мне, интересней самому копаться в этом, и самому модифицировать стоковый дистрибутив под свои нужды. Всё таки, самому создать идеальный дистрибутив для самого себя проще, чем кому-то для тебя.
I see nothing weird, frankly. Many aspects of the Linux world are legally grey or comparatively legally unusual, such as codecs or lack of warranty. Nobara goes against many legal decisions that Fedora made and every single notice in that EULA is perfectly reasonable, some of them are even nothing out of the ordinary. If anything, I appreciate the transparency because they're not even admitting to anything bad in that EULA, just pointing out some things to help people avoid misusing the distro to their disservice (like putting Nobara into prod).
I have three criteria for the "perfect" distro: 1. It can run the Affinity Suite just as well as Windows. 2. It can run The Sims 4 and Origin games as flawlessly as Windows. 3. My webcams work. If it can do all that, I will consider it a worthy replacement for Mint. Trying to get Mint to support those features has been maddening for me. It's why my main tower still runs Windows 10. I need to be able to make machinomics. That requires Photo, Designer, Publisher, Darktable, Sims 4, Krita, a PDF reader, and a few other tools. On Windows, I have Photoshop Elements 2019 with the Elements+ plugin, eliminating the need for Krita. But if I can't make Affinity Publisher and Sims 4 work correctly on Linux, then my workflow grinds to a halt. Standard PCs utilizing TPM have made it really hard to dual boot Windows and Mint. So if I want the ability to use all the apps I need and be able to dual boot, then I'm pretty much forced to get a MacBook Pro when my tower dies. Lack of TPM nonsense notwithstanding, replacing Windows with MacOS is pretty much stealing fabric from one leg on a pair of jeans to create a patch for a hole on the other leg of the same pair.
I’d just stay on Windows in that case. For me it finally came down to: I don’t have the time to fuss with OS configuration. I want everything on my systems to work perfectly, I want power management to not be weird on my laptops, and I want the OS to immediately get out of my way so that I can get to work. I do keep a VM around for periodic checking on distros, but at the end of the day I really don’t spend much time thinking about OS branding and would rather just Do Things without fuss.
@@eric_eagle : For now, that seems to be my only option. Sure, I'd get a 2TB MacBook Pro with 16 GB of RAM for my next major purchase in a few years, when my other hardware dies. But for the time being, while it still works, I'm going to keep using Windows 10 until I can't anymore. Not because Microsoft is all that great, but because I have much more important and immediate uses for my time and money than distro hopping and dual boot blues. Software just has to work.
Hmmm. I've been using fedora since they forked from RH. I just did a full custom install of 36 last weekend, and specifically ignored nobara because it said gaming focused. I'm pretty happy with xcfe, and after 20 years I've got the nvidia thing down, at least i tell myself that. Sans gaming, it looks like a nicely tightened up fedora based experience for desktop users. That said, crying over akmods, nouveau, Wayland, and X11 is like a right of passage to say you use fedora.
Hi everybody! I have been a windows gamer since childhood and today was the day I decided to satisfy my itch to get hardcore into linux. I dual booted Nobara and thats about it as far as my progress is concerned. I have "ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA" about what I should learn and from which sources and what exactly is the difference between ubuntu and debian and arch and fedora and I also lack any understanding of how to use the ternimal or things like Wine, Proton, etc. I am well aware of what they are but no idea about how to use them!!! Linux GODS reading this comment kindly guide me how I can learn linux in a step by step process and turn myself into a Linux god in the future hahah! I am a fast learner but I do need some structure in my learning process to thrive!
I played around with it, and its pretty cool... I'll stick with normal Fedora though and do what I want. I didn't really see any compelling reason to stick with Nobara, and I am worried about where it might be (not maintained?) in a few years.
you know, you MIGHT be able to find a script to just get all the stuff Nobara has. or you can manually just get all the stuff that GE made for it. OR….. you might be able to simply ask him if there’s a script or something or if he can make one… food for thought
@@cmtangoe9569 There could be issues with Linux and sound drivers, but that would vary by exact hardware. I am told the speakers and headphone work on my laptop just fine by those who have used it, but I cannot tell you for certain how good it is myself as I am deaf... but I know they worked in Manjaro and Garuda and Arch as well.
I recently switched from Windows to Linux and my first destro is Mint. I've been learning many things and experimenting with it since. I think Mint is a good start off for new Linux users to acclimate to Linux.
I had Nobara running for roughly a week before swapping back out to Manjaro. Issues with mouse buttons / refresh rate - SELinux alerts + an issue within the first week with GPU Drivers becoming corrupt (Failing to login to Wayland and failing back to Noveau, X11 working OK) Good base but, again, there's still stuff to work on - I don't think it is "Perfect".
Hard to get excited about an o/s or distro as at the end of the day it’s the applications that provide the empowerment. Much like a favourite beer there will always be discussions over the best apps versus best o/s and distros That said this looks like a solid and well supported o/s.
I have tried everything from Manjaro, Fedora, Suse, Red Hat, etc. So far the most stable and fast I have found is Mint. How does this compare to Mint in terms of performance?
My problem with linux is that you can’t download things and just open the program, I’m all for open source but the heavy reliance on the terminal and the inability to simply open a program without having to watching a video on it is the biggest thing holding me back.
thats the fun thing, you dont have that need! the terminal just is the most efficient way if we think about it from another perspective: if you know right what you want, you can just throw the install command (in the case of nobara sudo dnf install PACKAGE) and its done. the nice part is that it does come with a software store, so you technically never really have to touch the terminal.
I am glad you like this distro. However it does not appeal to me as use Debian Tesing and EndeavourOS. It is great that there are so many interesting Linux distros to use to fit ones needs.
Nobara is good for recent modern hardware. I tried it on an old (very old) MacBook that runs Fedora perfectly. Nobara wouldn’t even install. Probably has a bunch of “cruft” for supporting older hardware removed. I wouldn’t call it a general purpose or “perfect” distro.
I see what you did there with the Nobara Wallpaper from Jujutsu Kaisen, you won me there 🥰🔥🙏♥ I'm going to give it a shot because I mean, it is Fedora based, so quality is guaranteed!
As smooth and responsive as this distro looks I've gotten used to my RebornOS install (thanks Brandon for your video on it!), so I don't see myself swapping to anything else any time soon... I had been using Ubuntu, Gentoo, Funtoo, Void, and finally now RebornOS. Cool showcase though!
Your "rice" of the gnome is the best look I have seen on Gnome ever. I immediately stopped and rethinked my hate toward Gnome. And wanted to give the nobara a go, but that was before you explained it is not the default nobara look :) anyway still It seems nobara deserves a place among the Linux Hall of Fame, among the Mint, Ubuntu Family, Arco, Endeavour, Debian, POP!_OS, Manjaro, Fedora, deepin, elementary, MX Linux, Garuda, Antix, Linux Lite, Solus and Zorin,
Want to say thanks to techhut. Been learning Linux because of this man. Never knew about Linux until someone told me to follow him been using Ubuntu didn’t really like it felt sluggish on my acer predator. But shall download this new Distros and shall be my daily driver
It's so damn good, I can record right out of the box, smoothly cos it comes with the gstreamer plugin preinstalled. No other distro lets me record this smooth, out of the box, cos of OBS's awful ffmpeg vaapi implementation.
For me, a perfect distro would be something stable as Debian, regularly updated like Arch, lightweight like XFCE or Mate, most of daily needs workable with GUI like Manjaro or Ubuntu, not excluding any of packages like flatpak, snap, appimage... And pretty, like Endeavour OS, but still not cluttered, like Elementary OS
One thing I'd like is a guide to replicate Nobara's tweaks on other distros. I run endeavourOS myself, better community than arch without constantly breaking things with partial updates like Manjaro (The AUR is perfect for me as frankly I don't want to use flatpaks as I heavily disagree with how flathub is pushing online accounts) but I also like to play games, so knowing what specific kernel tweaks were added, how to replicate them (or if you can) etc. would be really nice. (I should add that I'm talking about manjaro breaking things, and I know some people are just fine with it, but I've heard pretty consistently it does NOT play well with the AUR, and I have a lot of niche programs that are only avaliable from the AUR, like my VPN's client software, my VLAN client, (yes I know that's just a VPN too but lets be honest, if I say VPN you don't think hamachi, you think nord) etc. are all AUR only, so I just can't reasonably use Manjaro personally. I'm sure for some people it's fine, but it just breaks just the wrong things for me. So simmer down youtube comments, if you use it, good for you, it just wouldn't work for me)
After trying over 20 different distros I'm just Linux Mint user. It never failed me and all my favourite apps work just fine, Wine is good, Steam is good, emulation is fantastic, web browsing and video streaming is perfect even on older hardware. And I can make it look however I want so I'm not jealous of default themes and layouts in other distros. For now I don't feel like distro hopping because I see no reason.
I just jumped 3 distros and I'm already tired. I came back to Fedora in 6 months and I'm sure I'm not going down this rabbit hole again unless Fedora completely breaks. Why look for something else with the current one's doing everything I want it to. I'm surprised how often people in linux community get into distro hopping and spend their lifetime doing just that.
@@merieedgegaming7621 Yeah. Many people seem to be super happy with Fedora too. I tried it and it seemed really good, but I got used to Debian stuff and I feel most comfortable with apt and .deb installing. I also use Flatpak and Snap (only few apps). The amount of software in the repos for Debian-based systems is a paradise.
I have personally converted many "common man" Windows users with zorin and have been showered with praise. All older hardware users and now FORMER Windows users. I love Manjaro but Zorin is my convert go to.
Its not Debian based, its Ubuntu based and there is a difference. I know that Ubuntu is based on Debian but enough has change they are not 100% compatible. Zorin is a good distro though, if you are a fan of the Ubuntu based ones, that and Pop!_OS are the only two I would really run.
I thought Zorin was Ubuntu based? Unless they changed that extremely recently it is Ubuntu based. Yes, Ubuntu derived from Debian back in the day, but generally we consider Ubuntu different than Debain for a host of reasons that Debian simply does not follow at all. So it is important to make those distinctions. I like Zorin myself, but find myself using Fedora with my own tweaks (as I would tweak any distro). Just works for me and I used to hate Gnome, but Fedora 35/36 just changed the game for me. Just solid with much more up to date packages especially if you're rocking newer gear and/or do any development like myself. Have had little issue at all out the box. I like Zorin's nice desktop options and ofc it is probably as close as you're gonna get to a Windows clone out the box. I especially love how easy they make it on beginners coming from Windows. This is why I originally bought Pro and donated as I liked them making it easy on folks like that and supported their work. Bravo to each!
I kind of miss not having to write tons of stuff in the terminal to get my machine up and running 😅 no seriously I was happy when I found Fedora worked oob with my pc, that's been the main reason I've been distro hopping after I decided to switch back to Linux. Only thing I had to do manually was change the boot order in the bios since nobara wouldn't automatically load the grub, but guys in the discord server replied really fast.
Since you use an Nvidia Laptop, I have a question. My main problem with my Linux gaming setup on a laptop is multi-monitors. When I'm at home I use a 27" monitor and a 58" TV with no laptop display. Nvidia-Optimus is a real pain with this type of usage. Do you think I would have a better experience with this distro?
Honestly, Ubuntu started going down the hill back in 2008 when netbooks were everywhere, and they made the decision that nobody needs an actual desktop environment anymore.. Optimising the distro specifically for netbooks, making it really hard to use on a regular computer.. In the beginning they even made it extra hard to undo their "optimisations"
You should really have titled this: "FINALLY! the perfect Linux Distro: Nobara" Seriously. It helps with both integrity, credibility, and long term viewers trust. As in, "Ok, I click this, I know what I'm getting"
I was curious if anyone here knew a proton version that makes Halo Infinite work well/perfectly? I’ve tried Experimental and some different GE versions and there are many errors with textures loading and many slowdown issues as well.
@@mastermaster153 Yeah, you can. You rename the videos folder in the game files and use GE version of Proton, but there are many texture glitches, maps and everything loads slowly, and there are many visual slowdowns. It’s definitely not a pleasant experience, sadly.
Package management is of vital importance to me. DNF is rubbish not to be rude but the majority run on apt and pacman. It's nice to see a tweaked distro and I will admit I'll try it but really hope we get a version based on apt or pacman
I've said it before and I'll say it again: it's a hobby distro, expect it to leave. Just go with Fedora and make the changes you want. It's the same thing. I never recommend hobby distros, they only ever disappoint in the end.
Exactly this. Nobara is a hobby fork of Fedora with 1 maintainer and some extremely questionable and downright wrong choices/tweaks, and even breaks things such as secure boot because it uses a custom kernel which isn't signed, and they have disabled SELinux, and improperly configured dnf. Just get Fedora and set it up how you want it. I know who GloriousEggroll is. Doesn't mean that he can make a distro.
@@MyAmazingUsername I learned how to use wine. I don't think I've ever had to use ge versions of that software. I trust proton to continue because it's backed by a company developing it. There needs to be a better way of providing user experiences without making a new distro. Some kind of software that profiles your system and allows custom improvements and options for software, kernels, etc. And it needs to be simple with advanced options, detecting your distro and distributing different developer's customization scripts.
@@user-nn5kx9gy3z no, those are way too iffy. Rolling release as a core philosophy is great for developers but terrible for people who need to have their software running and not breaking because of an update.
Fedora being created by billion dollar corporations (IBM and RedHat) is exactly why it is so good and stable. Most of the good stuff on Linux exists thanks to corporations. Sorry to burst your bubble, but almost all Linux kernel development is done by corporations. Over 80% of all kernel code is written by for-profit corporations. Almost all good, powerful Linux technologies and projects are created by and funded by corporations. Everything from filesystems to audio systems and everything in between. Even Linus Torvalds himself works for corporations to maintain Linux. You owe your entire existence on Linux thanks to corporations. That is exactly why I use Fedora. Because they have the developers and funds to polish that distro. It is pretty much perfect.
I've been using Nobara for 2 months at this point and I have had no desire to go back to Windows unless a program completely refuses to work on Linux. It took a bit to get comfortable with the OS's unique way of handling things, but overall all the tweaks and added drivers and extensions have made switching to Linux a breeze. I have been able to continue with my usual workflow for college classes, programming, and gaming just fine. I do keep my laptop on Windows though because there are some programs that just don't work on Linux.
I love my pop_OS, it got me to finally love, appreciate, and know linux more. However, this looks good enough to take for a spin... I'll give it a shot.
Reject complexity, enjoy simplicity. Debian is the best distro if you constantly distro hooping. It helped me focus on more important things like building a homeserver
I tried nobara, but using the automatic install of nvidia drivers didnt work. In fact it bricked the install. So I tried risi. Out if the box, I like it way more but Ill have to see if it holds longterm since the main dev is just 16. Aldo, the only thing I played by now is csgo which works perfectly.
Sorry if its not working for you I'm running a AMD rx 6700xt card with the distro so that makes it easy.... My friend has an Nvidia card and I'm setting it up on his PC. The Nvidia is temporary and then I'm switching him to a navi budget GPU
Hopefully Nvidia works at the moment... I use it now.. I used to use fedora 36 and switched over really quick. Hope you can get it to work as it's totally worth it for gameing
For better or for worse, Ubuntu has been the perfect distro ever since the very first version back in 2004. However times have changed and for the past decade I have installed Ubuntu server followed by i3 Window Manager and followed by apps. Today most of my apps are all flatpak based except for a few critical apps that only have snap or appimage versions. This means when next I upgrade, I can literally install virtually any linux as a base OS with all my same apps on top of it and I can safely delay upgrading for some time since my primary apps are updated irrespective of the libraries of the underlying OS. All that I know for sure as that next time around it will not be Ubuntu but probably a rolling Debian release and it will have to be biased towards QT and not Gnome/GTK.
I realized the type of person you are when you said “dirty corners” with the taskbar thing on the bottom. I get you and will be trying this OS on something to play with it soon.
I love GE's work and the passion with which he moves forward his projects. With that said, I don't intend to try Nobara... ever. Stock Fedora is already not that much work to get gaming and work running for most people. Of course I wish some things were on by default (like RPMFusion repositories), but Nobara is a use case distro. It has lots of ideas that inspired me to configure things in my system (e.g. the COPR for gaming tools like gamescope and others; obs-vkcapture). However, I do wish that most of the things done in Nobara were not necessary ("Getting rid of the need for the usecase Linux distribution" lays the premise for that) and users were able to just install the software they need with ease (without much gatekeeping from Fedora) and kernel tinkering was non-existent.
Honestly, most of the changes Nobara made should've been under the hood. Give us stock GNOME. I don't need 10 extra extensions or preinstalled gaming apps. Another worry I have is if GE gets hit by a bus, who will take over development.
12:30 -- While the application is running you can't really minimize it. For that behaviour, you have to blame client side decorations. Back when the window manager handled decoration --which WAS the correct way to do it-- the user did not have to worry about a poorly written application blocking the UI because another, stable process was controlling it. Back in the day, any application could crash or otherwise become unresponsive and you could still manipulate it's window any way you wanted. This was great. I count its loss as a regression in the gnome desktop that has yet to be corrected.
I gave Fedora a chance for 1,5 month... and I backed to Manjaro. Whole that time I feel in the cage: that isn't in flatpak, that can't be keybinded, that can't be changed, that work unexpected ways, and all of these with the same everyday updates requires reboot. Manjaro updates less than Fedora, that feels so. Yeah, it great to save battery in hibernation, works smooth, but not... I backed to manjaro xfce with ugly interface, hibernation battery loss, but more usable.
Nvidia users of Nobara. I suggest using the KDE Nvidia iso. The KDE version works with gsync/freesync and has the least issues out of box. The gnome version just has too many issues with nvidia.
I have Nobara on all my hardware and my family/friends. People I know want it to support old computers, without uefi, apps,snaps,flat. Then will be the perfect Distro. Thanks.
Finally! I knew this video was coming when I saw Nobara was a client in your Pi-hole server. Nobara is amazing! I've been using Nobara on my main machine for the last couple months. I can't even believe the FPS gains its given me. I always hated Fedora, but Nobara solves almost everything I didn't like out of the box. The only thing I miss from Manjaro is my AUR.
"FINALLY! the perfect Linux Distro" - probably the phrase most often heard in the linux community. The last time I uttered those words where after having used Mint 19 for about 2 years. After having used 21 for about two months, I'm wondering again.
For me, Fedora was a catastrophy. At first it seemed responsive and polished. Then, programs kept freezing randomly, the entire screen would freeze for several seconds out of nowhere, and it is just incredibly sluggish to use and open applications, compared to something like Debian+LXQt, where everything is instant. I can see in this demo of Norbara that the slowness is still a fact - but I understand, some people want to use pretty/easy distros out of the box. For me when I distro hop, I always come back to Debian and LXQt. The smoothest desktop experience that I've ever had by far. I think it makes no sense for me to distro hop anymore either. Once you have 5 multimedia apps open and jump between them, the difference is night and day to any other desktop environment at the very least. Different things for different folks.
Very interesting, never heard about it. I will compare its performance (and power consumption using watt-meter) with Clear Linux on my Ryzen 9 5900HX laptop.
First results. Timed RPi4 Linux kernel cross-compilation: 4:45 in Clear Linux, 5:45 in Nobara. Boot from grub to desktop: 5 seconds in Clear Linux, 8 seconds in Nobara. Idle consumption on battery after powertop and ryzenadj is roughly on par (6-7W). RAM consumption from start with no useful apps launched: ~1G in Clear Linux, 1.7G in Nobara. Same hardware, same min/max CPU frequencies, same scaling governor (schedutil). +/- the same modern Gnome DE. Verdict: nice batteries-included Fedora-flavour, and for Linux newcomers it's definitely the best thing I've ever seen. But I'm keep staying with Clear Linux cult))
Ehh. If you want Nobara's things, I think RisiOS is still better. RisiOS is still new too and doesn't have GE backing it, but I think it has more utility as it has almost everything I'd want in a Fedora distro (no autosnap yet I recall, no KDE version yet too). I've had problems with Nobara's tweaks and when I tested it two months ago it needed a lot of manual intervention because of a ton of stuff I don't care for. Risi allowing me to choose which tweaks I want thanks to one of the best new-user utility/welcome tool make it better for me.
I prefer vanilla Fedora because it's extremely reliable, and I think I'll stick to it. Vanilla Arch gets slower the more I use it, whilst it's the opposite for Fedora.
Never heard of it. I will soon install this on a test machine and hope it is as good or better than MX Linux, of which I am tremendously satisfied. The support for Windows apps is fantastic on MX. Thanks for this review.
For me my "Perfect distro" is Garuda Linux, Dragonized for my Desktop and XFCE for my laptop, it has tge software I want, runs well, looks good, has BTRFS with backups for every update/install, backup access from grub, useful included tools, and rolling distro updates so I can try out up to date stuff easily. In nearly a year I've only had minor issues that my inexperienced self can still handle with a little search-fu, even has ads blocked at the OS level so ublock origin on my browser is just a second line of deffence because ads are insufferable and I get too many on my phone (would love a Linux phone in the next couple years if say the Pinephone pro reaches daily usability
Так, можно же самому портировать Линукс на смартфон, если он на базе андроида, и имеет возможность разблокировки загрузчика. Всего-то надо пересобрать ядро с поддержкой system v ipc, активировать все userspace's, для работы systemd, изменить у ядра cmd line, чтобы тот грузил rootfs от Линукс дистрибутива. А так, рекомендую поискать на Ютубе материал про poco f1/OnePlus 6/6t, на них уже запускали arch arm, ubuntu, windows arm. По характеристикам в он гораздо мощнее pinephone, позволяет даже в игры играть на уровне flat out, half life 2.
so what your stating here is that Nobara is like mint where everything works out of the box and no bs tinkering is required to get it up to your likings?
After watching this I distro hopped and gave it a try. Despite all the positive things about it, and there are many, why is Thunderbird such an old version? I think it was version 79.
Installed nobara on a laptop , was impressed , then tried my gaming rig and it failed to install WineAsio needed for Rocksmith to work in realtime without the Cable. Unfortunately I had to go back to Manjaro . Had no idea installing Wine Asio on Fedora was that involved. Kudos to GE , awesome release, will keep it on my laptop.
Isn't it kind of a big deal to jump between Debian based and Fedora based systems? I've been using Debian based Linux for several years (started on MEPIS 11), and have never had hands on a Fedora based system. From what little I've seen, though, the command structure differs, the file system layout differs, in other words, it's not even very accurate to refer to both as "the same" operating system -- pretty much all they have in common is using the Linux kernel (and neither one, if I've understood correctly, is very similar to actual BSD Unix as found under the GUI on a Mac). So, while I'm getting less satisfied with Debian-based Ubuntu flavors with every failed upgrade, jumping to a Fedora-based distribution seems like starting over. Change my mind?
Thanks Bradon, based on your recommendation, I installed Nobara and it does indeed resolve / address nearly every complaint / aggravation vanilla Fedora has. Please review Nobara 37 (released a few days ago).
I am definitely intrigued because I used to use Fedora (it was my first Linux distro) but I had too many problems with proprietary drivers and too many other quirks. It would be nice to see Tuxedo Computers adopt this distro as an install option when you order a computer from them. Why have they not adopted it?