I wrote an article on my switch to Nobara Linux. I think this community might enjoy the journey.
Much of the post is the author reminiscing about how the community has changed over time, the author’s Steam library, whether we need to dual boot and how great KDE is. After scrubbing through it I have no idea what makes the distribution special and why I’d want to pick it over other options.
It’s basically Ubuntu for Fedora. Some QoL changes, but really it takes all the mess out of Fedora that you’d have to manually change up to get the best gaming experience. F38 is hot garbage out the box for gaming.
Agree with this, I have just built a new gaming box (first time in 10 years - wow stuff has changed!). Anyway, I daily drive Fedora on my laptop and just automatically put in on the new rig - it took a LOT of tweaking to get it right for gaming (working like a dream now). In hindsight Nobara sounds like it would have saved me a lot of time
Why ?
This is a fair comment, perhaps I got lost in thought and didn’t really answer the question well enough. It’s special because despite the small issues, all the major needs were met more than the other distros I tried.
I’ve had a significantly better experience with EndeavourOS than I ever had with Nobara, or literally any other distro, and the list of them I’ve run through is pretty long. Nobara was good, and I’d be curious to see how its improved, but at this point I’m so happy with Endeavour that I don’t know when I’d ever get around to putting Nobara on bare metal again.
Same. Endeavour is everything I ever wanted out of Linux, and the time between Antergos and Endeavour were dark days indeed.
I second this, switched back to EndeavourOS after a brief stint with Nobara and I couldn’t be happier. I haven’t really found that solid OS I had been looking for until Endeavour, and I think everyone should give it a shot. They literally lay out everything you need to do after the install to get things up and running with their welcome tool.
Good to know, You aren’t the first to tell me that so maybe I’ll give that a go next.
I’ve been working on my CLI skills and knowledge over the past year, and moving to an arch based system was a little confusing for me. Using yay, pacman, and git cloning were a little over my head after being used to apt and flatpak. After the first week, it all started to click, and now I’m fine, and I definitely feel more competent in the terminal, and no longer use any gui front ends for package management.
Mint and Pop had issues, steam would lag like crazy for the first five minutes after launch. Then after updating to the latest version of mint, steam stopped launching period. I’m sure it’s fixed by now, but that’s what drove me to jump ship, and it’s been the snappiest, cleanest experience I’ve had yet. I also love space, and the color purple, so it’s the first distro where I used their native theming and wallpapers, and shit it looks good.
The forum has also been a pleasant experience, the community is very friendly.
Honestly I just can’t do non arch based distros these days. The AUR just makes life so dang easy, I feel spoilt by it.
I really shouldn’t
