Nobara is the Fastest Growing Linux Distro for Gaming

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I used nobara for a while, but the reality is that while it is a decent option for new people using linux i would still suggest something with a but more backing behind it like Pop_os! or linux mint.

Not surprising considering how popular GloriousEggroll (Nobara's creator & maintainer of Proton-GE) is in the Linux Gaming community. The guy really knows his stuff, and Nobara seems like a great daily driver.

I gave it a fair shake as a daily driver, but there were enough nagging issues to make me go back to Fedora proper.

would you mind elaborating on that a bit? I'm considering Nobara, but you may save me the reformatting.

Not the same guy

And I'm not saying any of these are worthy of going Fedora proper vs Nobara... that's going to be a personal call for each person I think. I think they're both good but here are some differences I've noticed (not a complete list by any means):

  • Nobara updates are a bit behind Fedora's.
  • Nobara switched away from Fedora's Anaconda installer to Calamares. For many, this is probably a welcome change. For me, it very much was NOT bc Calamares, despite possibly being more intuitive for some, currently does not support all of the same functionality that Anaconda does. For instance, I prefer the Fedora style FDE partitioning scheme (ESP partition + unencrypted ext4 /boot partition + LUKS version 2 volume with /) as well as putting my installs in custom BTRFS subvol's... Neither of which was supported by Calamares as of 6 months ago when I last checked. Talking about graphical options only for both installers, though if someone knows how to specify it anyway from Calamares, I would be interested.
  • Nobara switched to AppArmor recently. For most, this is probably easier than SELinux. And I think it is great that AppArmor is being supported in Nobara. TBH, I wish it were an option in Fedora too despite the fact that I personally would likely continue to use SELinux - but I am just generally in favor of more options.
  • Nobara pushes Wayland a lot more than Fedora does. Sure, it is the default in Fedora Workstation (as well as the KDE spin). But if you are in one of those use-cases that isn't quite ready yet (typically people who either prefer a certain desktop like Cinnamon/Mate, have nvidia cards, and/or have some need for certain x11 windowing tools that don't have mature replacements yet), then Nobara might be a tougher jump at present

I have it on my machine right now but grub went bonkers and won't load anymore so it just defaults to my Windows install.

I've been using it myself since April after jumping from Kubuntu, I thinks it's a great distro, ended my distro hopping after a single hop