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8.3 from 47 review(s)
Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-11-19
Votes: 2
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After running Garuda in a dual boot setup for a year I went back to windows completely because I am a gamer and I felt that Garuda just wasn`t there at that time.
Now, after the Steam Deck has brought Lutris to the next level I gave Garuda Dragonized another dual boot try. The experience was really bad. Even if I managed to run a lot of AAA-Games, the system itself was very unstable. And so I switched to Nobara.
Nobara is the best Linux experience I ever had! Absolutly zero issues. The system is rock solid. No crashes at all. Everything is running perfectly fine. The gaming performance is great! The system performance is also very good.
My System:
RTX 3070
AMD 5800X3D
32 GB RAM
I was so satisfied that for the first time ever I ditched Windows completely and now I'm running Nobara KDE as my main and only system. I don't think that I ever will return to Windows.
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Version: 38
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-09-22
Votes: 0
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I just finished installing Nobara and found it was impossible to update or add packages beyond those in the iso. The reason being NO INTERNET ACCESS: the install program does not find, nor configure the on board wifi hardware. The configuration dialogs dont even have an entry for wireless. Given that (almost?) every modern motherboard has built-in wireless capacity, this distro is an inexcusable waste of anybody's time. Sure, I could run 50 or so feet of cat 6 cable thru the middle of the house just to access the WIFI router.... best to steer clear of this one until it's fully functional.
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Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-06
Votes: 1
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Works perfect on my AMD APU Laptop and on my AMD Gaming PC. I am using the KDE variant, i tried the other versions and work great too. I use my computers for gaming and learning to code and some multimedia and everything just works as it should. Easy to install any program you want, easy to update, easy to play and rock solid in this past few months of using it.
I am using linux for more than 10 years as an non hardcore user and this the one to rule them all.
Thank you so much GloriousEggroll for this distro and also for your work on the Proton version.
Just hope more and more people give this one a try.
This is easy the best distro out there.
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Version: 38
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-09-02
Votes: 0
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This keeps getting better every update. At this pace it will overtake mint and be strong contender towards windows. Which it will not take much to over throw windows. Long Live Linux. OSB has always worked well for me on mint but now being able to to use Da Vinci Resolve was just icing on the cake. No eye candy just solid performance. Happy to support Nobara project.
All in all one of the best distro out there to be so young. I"m in hopes that by version 44 they will have more crossover that will be welcomed.
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Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-08-27
Votes: 0
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I've been a happy Fedora user for years. However, neither Fedora nor any of the other popular distributions ran on the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (16ARH7H). Shortly after Gnome started, the computer crashed and restarted. But Nobara runs absolutely stable, probably due to the adapted kernel. I am therefore very grateful to the Nobara project that everything works so well and that I can work as usual.
Like Fedora itself, Nobara is an excellent distro where, in my experience, everything works very well. Whereby Nobara is even better suited for Linux beginners.
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Version: 38
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-08-15
Votes: 2
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Good experience, don't rely on having an up-to-date system after doing a distro version upgrade (like 37>38). Updates can break afterwards.
I'm using the Standard variant, which adds a few extensions to GNOME, like Dash to Panel.
Gaming is also pretty good (OFC because it's by GloriousEggroll), with the Proton-GE installer being easy and games running reliably.
The Nobara Welcome app is also a very good way to have some essentials like Discord installed right away.
Because of the kernel patches, Secure Boot needs to be turned off.
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Version: 38
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-08-11
Votes: 1
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I test drove Gnome version for a week or so, I believe the revision is 45, I don't recall. My only dislike with it and any Gnome versions is its inability to remember folder style per directory. I find this irritating when I prefer detail list view for everything except pictures directories and perhaps home folder directory, only one or the other, bummer.
However, I've switched to KDE because I have used Manjaro KDE for a year and really enjoyed it. Nobara KDE blew me away. This is amazing. I had an initial issue with Spotify where I had launched it on my computer shortly after getting into the office, I had listened to Steam during my commute. Suddenly, opening it from my start menu, it did not appear to open. After a reinstall of the os it seems to be a moot point, now with the current revisions. Steam runs beautifully, GTAV runs, which says a lot to the maturity. It does use a lot of memory at idle, I think but, with a 64gb system, nothing ever is bogged down unless I launch multiple vm's. I'm running this on two systems, a Dell XPS15 9550 and the new MinisForum UM790Pro, both 64gb ram and both run beautifully.
My only gripe with Linux, I do wish software uninstallation was cleaner. This is seemingly no different in Nobara. I had an issue with Trilium notes, because its a flatpak, I don't necessarily prefer to run snap or flatpaks because of how they install. Thats not a knock on Nobara. I feel that an actual uninstallation wizard could be developed to ensure this really is a true point and click.
Lastly, the only manual item I had to rely on Terminal for was my Expressvpn activation. Updates, I download the packages and execute and install using the sw installer. Very nice and convenient.
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Version: 38
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-07-25
Votes: 0
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Ill say it has been the best for me so far i have tried every other distro for my laptop and they all dont have that flawless lag free user experience. The closest i could get was zorin os but even that had its issues im using a ryzen 3250u and i know it might be a little underpowered but it shouldn't be to bad as the other distros and even windows make it look. For now Nobara Linux is the one and only linux distro that bringsout the best from my pc coupled with more optimized usage where my battery doesnt drain as much compared to before.i would sincerely recommend it for best experience especially with the gnome although i dont know if its specifically my pc that has thhhhe problem of lagging in other distros.
These are my two picks any day any time and no distrohopping thanks to distrobox:
#1-Nobara
#2-Zorin
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Version: 38
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-07-15
Votes: 0
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coming from Pop_OS! I was pleasantly surprised with how easy the transition to Nobara was.
The additions to the DE have made some of my games that do not run well normally under wine run exceptionally well such as World of Warcraft.
The one button installer for GE versions of Proton and wine are a welcome addition and out of the box including lutris and steam saved me an extra download.
Having it preconfigured to basically how I want my system is nice, for anyone who primarily wants a gaming experience Nobara is an excellent choice.
It does use more resources at idle, so I am unsure how it would go on a lower specced machine, but on my desktop the overhead is not an issue and the extra features are a welcome addition. Also the default tweaks to gnome feel very usable and the desktop feels cohesive and exceptionally well thought out.
No surprise though since the creater of the nobara project is the one and only Glorious Eggroll.
Overall an excellent distro and one I can see myself happy with in the long term.
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Version: 38
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-07-14
Votes: 1
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Appreciate the gaming focus and prepackaging and it might be better for a spec'd out desktop but for a laptop with soldered 8GB RAM Nobara uses 2.4GB RAM booting to desktop which is about double what Linux Mint uses.
Tried running a simple game, Stray, with Wine then after it few minutes it exited to desktop so not sure if it has to do with RAM utilization or just unstable. Runs fine on Linux Mint via Steam client added as non-Steam game.
I might give it another try on one of my spec'd out desktops but for laptop going back to Linux Mint since it "just works".
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Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-07-05
Votes: 0
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I tried Fedora work station before besause the interface was so beautiful and simple. When I saw the post on Distrowatch about Nobara, just had to download & burn it. WOW, was blown away by the first impression! ait has the same impact that Fedors has, but (and this is a big but) you can copy and paste like Fedora Gnome won't let you. That was the selling point for me.
I have been using Linux since 1999 along with Windows. Ubuntu (and all of the spins), Linux Mint, Red Hat before it became commerical, and many more have been so fun to use. Always wanted to use Fedora, guess this distro is as close as it gets for me.
Makes a great choice on my Asus Vivobook 17 inch laptop with a 1tb ssd drive & 12 gigs of memory, it out-preforms Windows 11. Love it!!
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Version: 38
Rating: 6
Date: 2023-06-30
Votes: 4
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Testing equipment Intel Xeon 14 cores+RTX 2070 Super+128Gb RAM+clean SSD UEFI install
Look:System most easiest to install for novices, after first start determines and installing all needed updates and drivers. The best look on great HD display or even TVs. They found the great dark blue color accent. Visually this Fedora based distro is one the most appealing. Not recommended on old LCD displays, I've tested on cheap notebook and it looks washed out, all the visual appeal will be lost immediately.
Feel: slowness apply to all Fedora 38 based distros, but Nobara is the most slowest from all of them. I'm not sure if the main cause is visuals, OS have full access to incredible hardware resources (mentioned above), but as i see don't use or need them? Every action, like launching the app takes like 5 seconds of system "thinking", there's definitely some processes going on the background but user don't see them and overall perceive OS feedback as very slow. Even launching the 4K Youtube video in Firefox browser is slow (which is not in Ubuntu 23.04 or others distros on same hardware). And slowness present after full install with full updates and all drivers install, after Nvidia 535 driver.
Testing profile: because this is very modern looking system with big accent on visual effects it will be tested for the most modern time resource dependent tasks - like very high quality media + gaming emulation, testing profile of Ai task of simple LLMs wasn't ready at my setup, but not needed considering outcome below.
Test_1:Pulse audio effects processing all audio sources(Auto gain+Crystalizer+Bass enhancement+Auto limiter)+watching 1080p streaming video on Firefox browser+RPCS3 emulator with Fallout New Vegas PS3 game resolution 1280x760. System freezes and require force manual reboot. Attempt of Wine emulation of complex 3D game failed also. Use of USB3 ports for high speed file transfer failed maybe because of conflicting hardware issue or drivers. USB2 speed protocol by unknown reason dropping significantly with time from 12Mb/sec to 4Mb/sec (file sending from portable hard disk drive Seagate USB 3.0 to computer).
Result: the most easiest to install, very good looking on HD displays, but impossible to use by incredible slowness or lag with all processes by unknown reason, same slowness with 37th version release.
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Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-29
Votes: 0
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I chose the pure Gnome version for installation. In total, there are three versions of Nobara: a customized KDE-like Gnome version, a pure KDE version and Gnome almost pure. Nobara does right what is missing in Fedora: The installer Calamares brings Nobara quickly and easily on the computer and is especially explicitly aimed at users, like his father (says the developer). After the installation, a detailed welcome screen leads through the numerous further setting options, understandable and clear for everyone. Various desktop layouts are offered, quite a few useful Gnome extensions are already on board. Further setup is a breeze, especially for gamers. Printers, scanners etc. are installed quickly and easily out of the box, even the monitor's screen resolution is recognized and adjusted per se. Simply put, Nobara is like Linux Mint - just based on the advanced Fedora base. Beginner friendly with an easy learning curve. Great!
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Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-28
Votes: 0
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Awesome distr! All the firewood is there, the scaling of the screen is immediately picked up, and in general everything is very fast and smooth. The updater is especially pleased with the fact that he checks flatpacks with snaps in a crowd! Rush. Just fire. I've tried a lot of things, but here I'm just dragging myself.
It's nice that Fedora is at the core (actually, this is what she is), which means always the freshest gnome! And then he's straight smooth. My eyes are not happy in any way)))
I recommend it to everyone!
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-19
Votes: 1
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I have been struggling with Ubuntu 23.04 for months and I was really looking for a non-distro-hopping distro and I finally found the perfect distro and Nobara appeared
The first time I installed it on my laptop, which is HP and uses AMD I had no problems installing it, one thing that I sincerely love about this distro is that it already comes with Steam and Wine included, at the moment I use Official version (GNOME + KDE) and I can say it's fantastic
Another positive thing is that it automatically makes a backup copy of the 3 kernel versions + kernel rescue in case something bad happens, I have been using this distro for 1 month and no problems so far
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-06-12
Votes: 1
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For some weird reason, Fedora 38 didn't work properly in my pc, so thanks to some random video on YouTube I found out about Nobara. I give it a try, and now I'm a happy user. Really hope they will continue developing it.
Having the chance to install Nvidia drivers after the installation made a huge difference. I was worried about using the GNOME version, but apparently the only difference was how the UI look like, so no complaints. I don't think there is a difference between the official version and GNOME version.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-05-09
Votes: 6
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Time of use as of this review: One week
After jumping between distros for several years and using OpenSUSE TW KDE for about a year, Nobara (KDE flavor in my case) is a breath of fresh air. You get all the superb user-friendliness, modernity, and stability of Fedora, while having your distro be tailored for gaming, if that's what your most intensive computing tasks are as in my case. Somehow it has the best installer dialogue I have ever used (Calamares is incredible and GE did a great job using it for Nobara) and the first time set up was clear, sensible, and with only a couple minor redundancies in the process.
After all that, it's just good ol' KDE on Fedora, but with great defaults and preconfigured packages for gaming. It even has its own generalized package manager (Nobara Package Manager) which allows me to easily see and search all the dnf packages on my system, which is honestly a step UP from stock Fedora.
I hope to come back to this review in 6 months to either maintain or raise my rating.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-05-05
Votes: 0
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Nobara is the only distribution that provides an adequate presence for AMD cards. It works great and I have not encountered any problems. GNOME is slightly customized and some keyboard shortcuts are not active, some gnome programs cannot be disabled. Lutris works very well. Only note is the not immediate ability to use Stable Diffusion or InvokeAI, the card is recognized but the work is not done. (p.s. A problem found in other distributions except kubuntu 20.04). Fantastic distribution! Those who wish to use it for graphics and games and no doubt a perfect distribution.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-19
Votes: 4
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I've been on desktop Linux for a year or so now, started with a lot of debian based distros tried about 7 different ones from Ubuntu to Mint. I loved them all for what they were and what I learned about Linux. Then I tried Fedora, I liked the cinnamon DE so I did that one and I liked it.. but it was a lot of work to setup and get video to play and some games but it was nice to be closer to the current Linux Kernel. I've actually tried Nobara before Fedora but didnt know enough to enjoy it.
So I tried it again and after setting up going through all the Fedora setup I see how amazing Nobara is. The ease of setup is incredible. I worry for its long term use but right now where its at I'd recommend it to absolutely anyone beginner or advanced user. The creator/developer on it is a very smart dude and I thank him so much for it!
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-10
Votes: 8
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Honestly, not sure you can get better for a gamin rig.
This has been my daily driver for over a year now, and I've got no regrest whatsoever. I finally was able to ditch windows!
Full disclosure: I'm using AMD cpu and AMD card, both quite new. I can play most games day one, and as Valve has been pushing the deck, more and more multiplayer games support linux, which directly helps me get to play anything I want to play. Only thing I feel is still not good is VR, but if we are being honest, VR simply isn't that good on linux anywhere.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-04-02
Votes: 3
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Out of the box has a great tool to install the nvidia drivers. And with my laptop lenovo ideapad g3i arh015 I have a really good experience. I can have a really good battery life changing the gnome profiles to tlp and setting thanks to the preinstalled supergfxctl tool the integrated gpu.
The installation of the distro was very fast without trouble. Like the before version 36. I installed on a nvme with and external nvme usb case like always I do. In a couple of minutes nobara was fully installed and I was configuring my apps.
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Version: 37
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-03-30
Votes: 0
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Fedora has been a problematic distro for me over the past decade. I can never get it to run correctly. So when I found out about Nobara I was ready to rejoice. It seemed very promising in live mode. However my hopes were dashed as I could not get it to install. After about 10 minutes of churning it would just crash. On all of my machines, new and old. So I never got to see what Nobara could do. Is it just me? But over the past 5 years it seems a lot of Linux distros are being released in a Hot Mess condition. Gone are the days when you could install a new release, confident that even if it didn't work well, at least it would work. How do I explain this to my Microsoft friends? They are laughing at me.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-24
Votes: 1
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This linux distribution in gnome and kde version that I discover and that I test is pleasant and installs quickly. the updates and the configuration of your system will be proposed to you and all is carried out without problem. It is focused for online gaming use, very responsive and based on Fedora. Unlike Fedora all my peripherals are recognized and my Nvidia video card works much better. You have to test Nobara which I think will become essential in linux environments. Now for me it will be Nobara whom I like very much.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-13
Votes: 0
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If you prefer the Fedora way of doing things, but want something simple for your main system, get Nobara. I love how most of my usual setup functions for a new desktop are already done. Some say it's for linux newbies? not sure why, because it's still linux. My first distro was RHEL back when you could freely download it, so I've always felt more comfortable with Fedora for workstations and AlmaLinux (previously CentOS) for servers. I'm running bleeding edge hardware and have zero problems with the installed OS. That includes kernel updates with proprietary nvidia drivers.
Installing was an issue, mainly dealing with the media check. It had to do with my usb flash drives. Possibly the make or model. I found that using the oldschool way of burning the image to a CD solved said issue.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-09
Votes: 1
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I can't believe how great this Distro is! Is really good out of the box. I have tried so many distros in the past sometimes I get back to Mac OS because Distro hopping. Now that I have tried this great Distro I finally arrive home, finally someone took the initiative and make this great job for the Linux world. I have always liked Fedora but it will take sometime to make it work out of the box this one is not is ready to use with a bunch of good tweaks. I must say whoever land on this page try it out.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-22
Votes: 8
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I've tested more than a dozen distros from the most famous to the least known. Those that offered the most robutez, solidity and virtually unbreakable were "Linux Mint" and Nobara.
Nobara is incredibly easy to configure with the main and fundamental preinstalled tools. In Discord I solved all my problems related to Nobara itself and I found that the other problems were related to the package/program itself and not distro.
The fluidity of "Nobara Kde" is exciting, never broke any package and if I need any exclusive package from another distro I use Distrobox.
I understand the reasons for choosing Timeshift for snapshots, but I still prefer the snapper's pre-installed solution with "BTRF Assistant" from Garuda.
The "Nobara Packet Manager" has been recently remodel and didn't please me much, for example, to brighten the packages to be updated you need to click with the right button and choose "select all" instead of having a straight button for this purpose. Descriptions could be added to the packages and other relevant information such as release date, popularity, developer, etc.
Finally, Nobara became my main distro
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Version: 37
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-02-17
Votes: 1
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WOW! I'm running a 27 inch 2011 imac (11,2) that I upgraded to 3.4GHZ with 16 GB RAM. Even with OpenCore, I was having issues getting anything past High Sierra on the machine. So I decided to throw linux on it. I started with Mint, but kept noticing some popping noises coming from the power cord in the back every so often. I tried a few different distros, and while they would all run, I kept having an issue with the popping sound A few months of trying out different distros and ideas, I came across Nobara. IT'S INCREDIBLE!
So, this machine now has ZERO issues with the power popping noise. Hasn't happened once in the few days I've had it installed. I also, can now run Steam and run a few games which is amazing because I couldn't do that earlier. While it definitely has a few things that need to be worked out, this is just an incredbile distro that I hope will continue to be supported and continue to grow.
Issues that's i've seen so far:
Bluetooth: Seems to cut from my Apple Wireless Keyboard and Trackpad and takes a while to reconnect when the machine wakes, sometimes they won't connect again at all and I have to restart.
ERROR REPORTING: Everytime I power back up, error messages. Would love to send them, but I have no idea where to send the logs.
SAMBA: Doesn't work (from what I tried but if I'm wrong, I'm all ears!)
Seriously amazing distro and I'm blown away by the work put into this.
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Version: 37
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-02-10
Votes: 0
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Jumped on Nobara from Fedora on a recommendation. Fedora update from 36 to 37 borked several config files and no amount of finagling on my part fixed it. Needing something for gaming and Nobara seemed like a good fit since I do like the Fedora ecosystem.
The performance for gaming has been great so far. Having something that wants to install GE proton out of the box for you is just incredible. The custom GNOME looks fine for me. Also having some zen patches in the kernel is just a wonderful bonus.
One gripe I had on my system was post install onto my NVMe drive, that somehow it messed up my EFI boot order, which was then showing Windows as the only OS from my SSD. Also wasn't clearly labeled and looked like a USB boot device in the EFI menu. Was still able to set it, see GRUB, and boot into both Nobara and Windows from it (Something that Fedora gave me problems with). But it's that manual step that I had to do that I haven't had to on Ubuntu/Garuda/Fedora that took points off for me. Aside from that, Nobara is amazing.
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Version: 36
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-04
Votes: 4
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very impressed with this!!!
Has now become my goto install.
everything worked straight out of the box.
I have been a fedora user from the days of fedora core, and have looked at all of the fedora based distros that have come about, but finally this is the one that made me switch from the original.
From the familiar installer to the software helper right down to their custom interface everything worked, no issues on any hardware I tried this on.
Yes this is designed to be a gaming distro but I don't think that is how it should be spoke of. This is the fedora distro that does everything! if you work in an office, home, are casual or hardcore gamer you need look no further.
tested on Lenovo Y50-70 and the Y70-70 it worked really I only found that I had an issue on the Y50-70 on steam, due to its older 860 graphics card, this was I lost the pointer in X-wing (which is a 30 year old game) everything else tested worked as expected, but I don't have a big games collection, and haven't brought any in years.
I would like to see more destop options for downloading, but its easy enough to install more (budgie, MATE etc...)
If you are starting out in the world of linux, thinking of coming back to it, or just want the stability of fedora THIS Is the distro you want.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-25
Votes: 4
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Everything works.
I mean everything.
I was using Manjaro for music production but kept having problems with updates that broke things that had come from the AUR.
The thing I really like is how it is apparent that someone actually cares about the overall project working as a whole, and the included and available packages all actually work. The package managers all work, and things don't break.
I'm sorry my review is simplistic, I just feel the need to heap praise on this project.
The Nvidia drivers work, is current and works with Wayland.
The performance with Steam games is better than anything else I have tried, there are even tweaks to Steam's runtime or whatever it's called to make Windows games work on Linux.
Pipewire audio works perfectly, the networking works perfectly, the display manager works right, the bootloader works correctly-
The installer worked right too.
Having things simply work may make it sound like my expectations are low, but it is actually quite great and for me, rare, that all the things I want to have working actually do.
I use the Gnome version, and the only reason I chose it is because I prefer to not have icons on the desktop. Otherwise, the default official version was great too, which I tried for a while.
If for no other reason than to have Steam games working right, oh and Lutris things too, this distro is worth trying.
I use it for my audio engineering work running Yabridge and a ton of Windows VST3 plugins with a few different DAWs and it's solid.
Oh my computer is a something something Asus motherboard with 5700G AMG processor and a 1650 gpu.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-22
Votes: 0
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Nobara is the best distro for gaming currently.
I used Nobara 36 Gnome and Nobara 37 from it's begining,
Nobara 36 Gnome is much more stable. I have an old processor AMD K10 and I had to use - dnf distro-sync - command after installation actualizations on Nobara 37.
I use it for gaming and with Wine Proton GE instead of standard version of Wine in Lutris I'm able to run games, which I was not able to run at another distros.
Performance in gaming is very, very good, but default options in Lutris is set for new hardware.
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Version: 37
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-01-18
Votes: 1
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Bonjour,
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Version KDE : nombreux logiciels graphiques et utilitaires associés immédiatement disponibles.
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Gestionnaire des tâches : réactivité trop lente et incertaine au lancement des icônes d'applications.
Certaines modifient le gestionnaire : icônes miniatures sur deux lignes (Glimpse, Glimp).
Bon point pour la configuration des imprimantes souvent très compliqué avec Linux :
une Epson jet d'encre ET-2650 et une Xerox laser B210.
Projet bien pensé à suivre et merci pour le travail accompli.
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Version: 37
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-16
Votes: 0
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Couldn't get live environment to start in Virtualbox. Selected Nobara 37 in the boot loader but after that only got a black screen with the cursor flickering. ACPI shutdown worked so apparently it didn't freeze completely.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-16
Votes: 3
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Nobara is like heaven. It just works. It's reliable. What you might not think of but is more important is that Nobara updates ALWAYS just work. Not once have I had to spend hours to repair update damage to get my hardware running again. Even Nobara Installation USB can serve as sort of a rescue disk. It comes with a well written user manual with great installation instructions.
In five months, I've never had a problem excepting one that I caused. I love the interface including the wildflower wallpaper and clock so I've only changed the sleep setting. It's very intuitive to use and the menus and icons are legible and logical. It's fast. It handles multiple programs running with ease.
The only con I've encountered is thatworks so well, I've forgotten all the Linux commands I used to have to use to straighten out my system after updates.
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Version: 37
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-01-16
Votes: 0
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terrible - at least for me!
I copied the KDE ISO to my Ventoy stick and let it boot from there. From Nobara's grub menue I chose "start Nobara 37". The boot process made it to a, beautifully looking, KDE desktop and immedeately launched the gui -installer, without further intervention from me. I managed to open a terminal and `sudo -su`. Next, in addition to the system allocated zram swapspace, I added some more 16 GB, already existing on my HD. Thereafter I ran `top -S`, watching memory and swap space -usage going up straight away, consuming every available byte of real and swap memory. The process in charge was jfs-debug. Yes, I do have two jfs -partitions on my hd, but what makes the installer sniff around my data before I give it the parameters which partition(s) to use? I kept watching the installer gui "loading module 1" and the `top` CPU & memory usage until the system came to a halt: no more mouse pointer visible, no reaction on Alt+Tab. No chance to enter `systemctl -i reboot`on the console.
At last I had to press the hardware reboot button and felt relieved after stating that none of my partition data had been corrupted. Next step: remove Nobara-37-KDE-2023-01-06.iso from my Ventoy stick.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-14
Votes: 2
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I am enjoying this version of Linux, I have nVidia prime, and this distro makes it so simple to switch back and forth between the two cards. I have an RTX 3060, with an R7 5800H. It's snappy and responsive. Games seem to run pretty well, even with Proton. I'm running the KDE version, as I am not a fan of Gnome. So far, so good. I haven't experienced any major issues, and I've had it installed for 4 days so far. I don't know if this would run on older hardware or not, but if you have a system that's no more than 10 years old, I'd definitely give this a spin. You can always put another distro on if it doesn't work for you. :)
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-14
Votes: 0
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Solus is very fast distrib and now quite customizable and complete compared to a few years past, kde chrome and wine work very well for my desktop. Very fast in startup and in applications. Gentoo and arch seem slow as turtles by comparison. In my opinion a revolutionary distro hope that Solus makes the community grow . Now that I have installed it, I am convinced to use it, I will also test the efficiency of the updates. I am a linux user for many years, in my humble opinion it seems an excellent way for the future unfortunately not advertised enough. I had a good look at the KDE verson of Solus and I must say, I am really impressed. It's clean, very fast and has most programs that are worth their salt already "in the box"
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Version: 36
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-01-12
Votes: 0
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good morning, attracted to Nobara because it advertised the use of AMD GPU computing qualities via ROCM. Installation of the same was successful and appears, in Blender both the HIP opportunity and OpenCL (Blender 2.9x). The GNOME environment is smooth, although I prefer KDE I preferred to install the distribution's default environment. Wayland display server behaves well but some applications, go crazy. At the moment Blender 3.x is likely that using HIP may crash your application and give you a sudden shutdown. Applications that make use of Tensorflow, Python, Keras, Conda: Deep Learning applications (Stable Diffusion has several difficulties). Unfortunately, many of these are built on the Ubuntu distribution, and when a multitude of users and companies are "comfortably" using one distribution for such important applications call Mafia. It is a distribution that holds great potential.
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Version: 37
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-11
Votes: 0
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The premise is excellent but the distribution is not stable. I have an RTX 3070 and the system is extremely slow with severe visual tearing. Nvidia drivers are installed and on Fedora Workstation I don't have this problem. I tried the installation several times, same on a different machine this time with AMD 6900 but the result is almost the same, all games (both native and platinum from ProtonDB) are extremely slow with obvious FPS drops. Booting is extremely slow on both bare metal and VM (qemu).
Furthermore, the distribution is loaded with bloatware, GNOME is not stock and gives me the impression of using a toy.
The idea is great, Nobara is in concept a better, modern and out of the box Fedora, just not yet and needs a LOT more testing.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-11
Votes: 0
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Nobara is excellent distribution for the gamer and content creator.
It feels very professional and up to date. It's not perfect but no distribution is. Older peripherals such as DVD burner/writers will require research to get up and going. But all in all, I really can't complain.
Setting up KVM/Qemu Virt-manager on Nobara is easy, as well as media codecs.
Once setup, it's great even for a novice Linux user. Set it and forget it if you will. Automatic updates can be enabled for beginners and works very very well. So all they have to do is boot and use.
The package management of Fedora in general is clean and does a great job of taking care of itself.
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Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-11
Votes: 3
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Very good stability for work and also creation.
A very lively and helpful community.
A good structuring and coherence, compared to many Debian-like which will seem chaotic next to it.
And therefore a very high reactivity in the event of a problem, which will be quickly resolved...
I love the fact that it is not only very easy to use, but is also very powerful. I highly recommend this Distro for anyone how wants a good and customizable Operating System that just works. KVM switch and all my devices are recognized, and plug n' play functionality has been seamless.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-07
Votes: 6
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after using it for two weeks, I find Nobara to be a well polished and refined os. Great for gaming as you can install nvidia drivers as well as the proprietary AMD drivers. I do wish that The Linux Zen kernel was available. I had to compile that myself which was very lengthy. But overall even as a daily driver it's nice and comfortable to live in as it includes many apps that most people use such as Libre Office and Rythmbox. Firefox of course is the default browser. Package management is very easy and beginner friendly.
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Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-07
Votes: 5
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Pragmatic feature modifications, performance, functionality, attractive eye candy built on a solid legacy Redhat foundation. Excellent Linux distribution for the gamer and content creator. I think this Nobara distribution is a MX-Linux wake up call for a distro war!! I don't know if MX's custom software tools can save itself from a mass exodus to Nobara, really. MX-Linux is showing its age like a rusted out beat up 57 Chevy. Its classic but fading. If Dolphin wants to survive, he better get those flippers working and cough that mucous out of his blow hole. If I want to show off a polished and attractive system, Nobara has the potential to flip many Windows 11 bangers to come over and join the Linux BBQ. Setting up KVM/Qemu Virt-manager on Nobara is easy as pie and running Windows as a guest VM within a pinch of native bare metal is awesome performance.
Oh yeah, the only criticism I have for Nobara is getting KDE option up to eye candy par with the Gnome counterpart, trivial criticism indeed but I do believe each flavor should reach visual and functional parity regardless. That is all.
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Version: 36
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-01-06
Votes: 2
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Being fairly new to Linux, Nobara is one that really stuck out to me as I was distro hopping. I've tried both the standard ISO with customizations (GNOME DE) and the standalone GNOME - and from the time I tried the standard ISO there were some weird issues with some apps not opening. I chalk it up to some extensions that come with that ISO as I did not have any problems with the GNOME ISO.
This distribution works out of the box.
My build is: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro (2022) - Radeon GPU, RYZEN 5, 16GB ram
Looking forward to the upcoming updates and improvments being made to Fedora that Nobara will greatly benefit fun. I liken this distro to Manjaro of Fedora.
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Version: 36
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-01-04
Votes: 9
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Nobara is basically to Fedora what Mint is to Ubuntu or MX is to Debian. It's a highly customized "spin" of the base distribution with ready access to drivers and tweaks that can significantly improve system performance--especially for gaming. You might have heard of the distro's maintainer, Glorious Eggroll, who also works for Red Hat and develops a custom fork of Steam Proton, the compatbility layer for playing Steam games for Windows on Linux.
With Fedora 37's removal of mesa packages for decoding videos with AMD GPUs (due to patent issues), it became more apparent just how much the average user needs to customize Fedora after install just to get a decently working computer. Nobara automates this process and does a lot of advanced tweaks that most users would never have sought themselves. It can come across as a highly customized experience but if you've used GNOME or KDE before you really aren't going to be in too unfamiliar a territory.
If you didn't care for Fedora, this distro won't change your mind about it, but if you want to push Fedora's capabilities beyond its official vanilla release and save at lot of time in setup, give this one a try.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-03
Votes: 5
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Ever since Windows 11 came out, after trying it out for about 5 days I knew I had to give up on Windows since my experience kept getting worse and worse. I tried out Fedora 36 for about 6 months, which was a pretty good experience, but I had some major issues with playing games and some customization issues that I had wished could have been fixed. After seeing TechHut's review of Nobara 36, I noticed that all of the issues that I had been having with Fedora 36 were fixed in Nobara 36. I immediately switched over to Nobara and have never had such a great experience. As soon as I logged in, everything just worked. I never have to search for a a website for special software since a huge majority of the any software or drivers you may need are included in the Nobara software center. I love the fact that it is not only very easy to use, but is also very powerful. I highly recommend this Distro for anyone how wants a good and customizable Operating System that just works.
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Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-02
Votes: 14
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I've installed Nobara 36 on both my gaming desktop (5800X3d/6800XT) and gaming laptop (6900HS/6700S) and everything has just worked. I didn't have to collect additional drivers or manually configure anything. Be it Steam, Lutris, or even DaVinci Resolve, my departure from Windows 10 has been flawless thus far.
Battery life on the laptop is still nearing 9 hours and plugging/unplugging a portable external display (via HDMI) works exactly as it should. I've even got my laptop plugged into a Level1Techs DP1.4 KVM switch and all my devices are recognized, and plug n' play functionality has been seamless.
I'm still learning how to navigate the Linux UI but after having used Pop!_OS for 8 months last year, I've been very pleased with my Linux experience so far and I look forward to an accelerated future of advancements while Windows seems content to regress with each update.
Thanks GE and team. Keep up the good work.
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Latest Reviews
Project: Nobara Project
Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-11-19
Votes: 2
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After running Garuda in a dual boot setup for a year I went back to windows completely because I am a gamer and I felt that Garuda just wasn`t there at that time.
Now, after the Steam Deck has brought Lutris to the next level I gave Garuda Dragonized another dual boot try. The experience was really bad. Even if I managed to run a lot of AAA-Games, the system itself was very unstable. And so I switched to Nobara.
Nobara is the best Linux experience I ever had! Absolutly zero issues. The system is rock solid. No crashes at all. Everything is running perfectly fine. The gaming performance is great! The system performance is also very good.
My System:
RTX 3070
AMD 5800X3D
32 GB RAM
I was so satisfied that for the first time ever I ditched Windows completely and now I'm running Nobara KDE as my main and only system. I don't think that I ever will return to Windows.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 38
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-09-22
Votes: 0
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I just finished installing Nobara and found it was impossible to update or add packages beyond those in the iso. The reason being NO INTERNET ACCESS: the install program does not find, nor configure the on board wifi hardware. The configuration dialogs dont even have an entry for wireless. Given that (almost?) every modern motherboard has built-in wireless capacity, this distro is an inexcusable waste of anybody's time. Sure, I could run 50 or so feet of cat 6 cable thru the middle of the house just to access the WIFI router.... best to steer clear of this one until it's fully functional.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-06
Votes: 1
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Works perfect on my AMD APU Laptop and on my AMD Gaming PC. I am using the KDE variant, i tried the other versions and work great too. I use my computers for gaming and learning to code and some multimedia and everything just works as it should. Easy to install any program you want, easy to update, easy to play and rock solid in this past few months of using it.
I am using linux for more than 10 years as an non hardcore user and this the one to rule them all.
Thank you so much GloriousEggroll for this distro and also for your work on the Proton version.
Just hope more and more people give this one a try.
This is easy the best distro out there.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 38
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-09-02
Votes: 0
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This keeps getting better every update. At this pace it will overtake mint and be strong contender towards windows. Which it will not take much to over throw windows. Long Live Linux. OSB has always worked well for me on mint but now being able to to use Da Vinci Resolve was just icing on the cake. No eye candy just solid performance. Happy to support Nobara project.
All in all one of the best distro out there to be so young. I"m in hopes that by version 44 they will have more crossover that will be welcomed.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-08-27
Votes: 0
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I've been a happy Fedora user for years. However, neither Fedora nor any of the other popular distributions ran on the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (16ARH7H). Shortly after Gnome started, the computer crashed and restarted. But Nobara runs absolutely stable, probably due to the adapted kernel. I am therefore very grateful to the Nobara project that everything works so well and that I can work as usual.
Like Fedora itself, Nobara is an excellent distro where, in my experience, everything works very well. Whereby Nobara is even better suited for Linux beginners.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 38
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-08-15
Votes: 2
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Good experience, don't rely on having an up-to-date system after doing a distro version upgrade (like 37>38). Updates can break afterwards.
I'm using the Standard variant, which adds a few extensions to GNOME, like Dash to Panel.
Gaming is also pretty good (OFC because it's by GloriousEggroll), with the Proton-GE installer being easy and games running reliably.
The Nobara Welcome app is also a very good way to have some essentials like Discord installed right away.
Because of the kernel patches, Secure Boot needs to be turned off.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 38
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-08-11
Votes: 1
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I test drove Gnome version for a week or so, I believe the revision is 45, I don't recall. My only dislike with it and any Gnome versions is its inability to remember folder style per directory. I find this irritating when I prefer detail list view for everything except pictures directories and perhaps home folder directory, only one or the other, bummer.
However, I've switched to KDE because I have used Manjaro KDE for a year and really enjoyed it. Nobara KDE blew me away. This is amazing. I had an initial issue with Spotify where I had launched it on my computer shortly after getting into the office, I had listened to Steam during my commute. Suddenly, opening it from my start menu, it did not appear to open. After a reinstall of the os it seems to be a moot point, now with the current revisions. Steam runs beautifully, GTAV runs, which says a lot to the maturity. It does use a lot of memory at idle, I think but, with a 64gb system, nothing ever is bogged down unless I launch multiple vm's. I'm running this on two systems, a Dell XPS15 9550 and the new MinisForum UM790Pro, both 64gb ram and both run beautifully.
My only gripe with Linux, I do wish software uninstallation was cleaner. This is seemingly no different in Nobara. I had an issue with Trilium notes, because its a flatpak, I don't necessarily prefer to run snap or flatpaks because of how they install. Thats not a knock on Nobara. I feel that an actual uninstallation wizard could be developed to ensure this really is a true point and click.
Lastly, the only manual item I had to rely on Terminal for was my Expressvpn activation. Updates, I download the packages and execute and install using the sw installer. Very nice and convenient.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 38
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-07-25
Votes: 0
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Ill say it has been the best for me so far i have tried every other distro for my laptop and they all dont have that flawless lag free user experience. The closest i could get was zorin os but even that had its issues im using a ryzen 3250u and i know it might be a little underpowered but it shouldn't be to bad as the other distros and even windows make it look. For now Nobara Linux is the one and only linux distro that bringsout the best from my pc coupled with more optimized usage where my battery doesnt drain as much compared to before.i would sincerely recommend it for best experience especially with the gnome although i dont know if its specifically my pc that has thhhhe problem of lagging in other distros.
These are my two picks any day any time and no distrohopping thanks to distrobox:
#1-Nobara
#2-Zorin
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 38
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-07-15
Votes: 0
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coming from Pop_OS! I was pleasantly surprised with how easy the transition to Nobara was.
The additions to the DE have made some of my games that do not run well normally under wine run exceptionally well such as World of Warcraft.
The one button installer for GE versions of Proton and wine are a welcome addition and out of the box including lutris and steam saved me an extra download.
Having it preconfigured to basically how I want my system is nice, for anyone who primarily wants a gaming experience Nobara is an excellent choice.
It does use more resources at idle, so I am unsure how it would go on a lower specced machine, but on my desktop the overhead is not an issue and the extra features are a welcome addition. Also the default tweaks to gnome feel very usable and the desktop feels cohesive and exceptionally well thought out.
No surprise though since the creater of the nobara project is the one and only Glorious Eggroll.
Overall an excellent distro and one I can see myself happy with in the long term.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 38
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-07-14
Votes: 1
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Appreciate the gaming focus and prepackaging and it might be better for a spec'd out desktop but for a laptop with soldered 8GB RAM Nobara uses 2.4GB RAM booting to desktop which is about double what Linux Mint uses.
Tried running a simple game, Stray, with Wine then after it few minutes it exited to desktop so not sure if it has to do with RAM utilization or just unstable. Runs fine on Linux Mint via Steam client added as non-Steam game.
I might give it another try on one of my spec'd out desktops but for laptop going back to Linux Mint since it "just works".
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-07-05
Votes: 0
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I tried Fedora work station before besause the interface was so beautiful and simple. When I saw the post on Distrowatch about Nobara, just had to download & burn it. WOW, was blown away by the first impression! ait has the same impact that Fedors has, but (and this is a big but) you can copy and paste like Fedora Gnome won't let you. That was the selling point for me.
I have been using Linux since 1999 along with Windows. Ubuntu (and all of the spins), Linux Mint, Red Hat before it became commerical, and many more have been so fun to use. Always wanted to use Fedora, guess this distro is as close as it gets for me.
Makes a great choice on my Asus Vivobook 17 inch laptop with a 1tb ssd drive & 12 gigs of memory, it out-preforms Windows 11. Love it!!
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 38
Rating: 6
Date: 2023-06-30
Votes: 4
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Testing equipment Intel Xeon 14 cores+RTX 2070 Super+128Gb RAM+clean SSD UEFI install
Look:System most easiest to install for novices, after first start determines and installing all needed updates and drivers. The best look on great HD display or even TVs. They found the great dark blue color accent. Visually this Fedora based distro is one the most appealing. Not recommended on old LCD displays, I've tested on cheap notebook and it looks washed out, all the visual appeal will be lost immediately.
Feel: slowness apply to all Fedora 38 based distros, but Nobara is the most slowest from all of them. I'm not sure if the main cause is visuals, OS have full access to incredible hardware resources (mentioned above), but as i see don't use or need them? Every action, like launching the app takes like 5 seconds of system "thinking", there's definitely some processes going on the background but user don't see them and overall perceive OS feedback as very slow. Even launching the 4K Youtube video in Firefox browser is slow (which is not in Ubuntu 23.04 or others distros on same hardware). And slowness present after full install with full updates and all drivers install, after Nvidia 535 driver.
Testing profile: because this is very modern looking system with big accent on visual effects it will be tested for the most modern time resource dependent tasks - like very high quality media + gaming emulation, testing profile of Ai task of simple LLMs wasn't ready at my setup, but not needed considering outcome below.
Test_1:Pulse audio effects processing all audio sources(Auto gain+Crystalizer+Bass enhancement+Auto limiter)+watching 1080p streaming video on Firefox browser+RPCS3 emulator with Fallout New Vegas PS3 game resolution 1280x760. System freezes and require force manual reboot. Attempt of Wine emulation of complex 3D game failed also. Use of USB3 ports for high speed file transfer failed maybe because of conflicting hardware issue or drivers. USB2 speed protocol by unknown reason dropping significantly with time from 12Mb/sec to 4Mb/sec (file sending from portable hard disk drive Seagate USB 3.0 to computer).
Result: the most easiest to install, very good looking on HD displays, but impossible to use by incredible slowness or lag with all processes by unknown reason, same slowness with 37th version release.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-29
Votes: 0
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I chose the pure Gnome version for installation. In total, there are three versions of Nobara: a customized KDE-like Gnome version, a pure KDE version and Gnome almost pure. Nobara does right what is missing in Fedora: The installer Calamares brings Nobara quickly and easily on the computer and is especially explicitly aimed at users, like his father (says the developer). After the installation, a detailed welcome screen leads through the numerous further setting options, understandable and clear for everyone. Various desktop layouts are offered, quite a few useful Gnome extensions are already on board. Further setup is a breeze, especially for gamers. Printers, scanners etc. are installed quickly and easily out of the box, even the monitor's screen resolution is recognized and adjusted per se. Simply put, Nobara is like Linux Mint - just based on the advanced Fedora base. Beginner friendly with an easy learning curve. Great!
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-28
Votes: 0
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Awesome distr! All the firewood is there, the scaling of the screen is immediately picked up, and in general everything is very fast and smooth. The updater is especially pleased with the fact that he checks flatpacks with snaps in a crowd! Rush. Just fire. I've tried a lot of things, but here I'm just dragging myself.
It's nice that Fedora is at the core (actually, this is what she is), which means always the freshest gnome! And then he's straight smooth. My eyes are not happy in any way)))
I recommend it to everyone!
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-06-19
Votes: 1
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I have been struggling with Ubuntu 23.04 for months and I was really looking for a non-distro-hopping distro and I finally found the perfect distro and Nobara appeared
The first time I installed it on my laptop, which is HP and uses AMD I had no problems installing it, one thing that I sincerely love about this distro is that it already comes with Steam and Wine included, at the moment I use Official version (GNOME + KDE) and I can say it's fantastic
Another positive thing is that it automatically makes a backup copy of the 3 kernel versions + kernel rescue in case something bad happens, I have been using this distro for 1 month and no problems so far
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-06-12
Votes: 1
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For some weird reason, Fedora 38 didn't work properly in my pc, so thanks to some random video on YouTube I found out about Nobara. I give it a try, and now I'm a happy user. Really hope they will continue developing it.
Having the chance to install Nvidia drivers after the installation made a huge difference. I was worried about using the GNOME version, but apparently the only difference was how the UI look like, so no complaints. I don't think there is a difference between the official version and GNOME version.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-05-09
Votes: 6
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Time of use as of this review: One week
After jumping between distros for several years and using OpenSUSE TW KDE for about a year, Nobara (KDE flavor in my case) is a breath of fresh air. You get all the superb user-friendliness, modernity, and stability of Fedora, while having your distro be tailored for gaming, if that's what your most intensive computing tasks are as in my case. Somehow it has the best installer dialogue I have ever used (Calamares is incredible and GE did a great job using it for Nobara) and the first time set up was clear, sensible, and with only a couple minor redundancies in the process.
After all that, it's just good ol' KDE on Fedora, but with great defaults and preconfigured packages for gaming. It even has its own generalized package manager (Nobara Package Manager) which allows me to easily see and search all the dnf packages on my system, which is honestly a step UP from stock Fedora.
I hope to come back to this review in 6 months to either maintain or raise my rating.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-05-05
Votes: 0
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Nobara is the only distribution that provides an adequate presence for AMD cards. It works great and I have not encountered any problems. GNOME is slightly customized and some keyboard shortcuts are not active, some gnome programs cannot be disabled. Lutris works very well. Only note is the not immediate ability to use Stable Diffusion or InvokeAI, the card is recognized but the work is not done. (p.s. A problem found in other distributions except kubuntu 20.04). Fantastic distribution! Those who wish to use it for graphics and games and no doubt a perfect distribution.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-19
Votes: 4
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I've been on desktop Linux for a year or so now, started with a lot of debian based distros tried about 7 different ones from Ubuntu to Mint. I loved them all for what they were and what I learned about Linux. Then I tried Fedora, I liked the cinnamon DE so I did that one and I liked it.. but it was a lot of work to setup and get video to play and some games but it was nice to be closer to the current Linux Kernel. I've actually tried Nobara before Fedora but didnt know enough to enjoy it.
So I tried it again and after setting up going through all the Fedora setup I see how amazing Nobara is. The ease of setup is incredible. I worry for its long term use but right now where its at I'd recommend it to absolutely anyone beginner or advanced user. The creator/developer on it is a very smart dude and I thank him so much for it!
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-04-10
Votes: 8
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Honestly, not sure you can get better for a gamin rig.
This has been my daily driver for over a year now, and I've got no regrest whatsoever. I finally was able to ditch windows!
Full disclosure: I'm using AMD cpu and AMD card, both quite new. I can play most games day one, and as Valve has been pushing the deck, more and more multiplayer games support linux, which directly helps me get to play anything I want to play. Only thing I feel is still not good is VR, but if we are being honest, VR simply isn't that good on linux anywhere.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-04-02
Votes: 3
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Out of the box has a great tool to install the nvidia drivers. And with my laptop lenovo ideapad g3i arh015 I have a really good experience. I can have a really good battery life changing the gnome profiles to tlp and setting thanks to the preinstalled supergfxctl tool the integrated gpu.
The installation of the distro was very fast without trouble. Like the before version 36. I installed on a nvme with and external nvme usb case like always I do. In a couple of minutes nobara was fully installed and I was configuring my apps.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-03-30
Votes: 0
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Fedora has been a problematic distro for me over the past decade. I can never get it to run correctly. So when I found out about Nobara I was ready to rejoice. It seemed very promising in live mode. However my hopes were dashed as I could not get it to install. After about 10 minutes of churning it would just crash. On all of my machines, new and old. So I never got to see what Nobara could do. Is it just me? But over the past 5 years it seems a lot of Linux distros are being released in a Hot Mess condition. Gone are the days when you could install a new release, confident that even if it didn't work well, at least it would work. How do I explain this to my Microsoft friends? They are laughing at me.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-24
Votes: 1
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This linux distribution in gnome and kde version that I discover and that I test is pleasant and installs quickly. the updates and the configuration of your system will be proposed to you and all is carried out without problem. It is focused for online gaming use, very responsive and based on Fedora. Unlike Fedora all my peripherals are recognized and my Nvidia video card works much better. You have to test Nobara which I think will become essential in linux environments. Now for me it will be Nobara whom I like very much.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-13
Votes: 0
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If you prefer the Fedora way of doing things, but want something simple for your main system, get Nobara. I love how most of my usual setup functions for a new desktop are already done. Some say it's for linux newbies? not sure why, because it's still linux. My first distro was RHEL back when you could freely download it, so I've always felt more comfortable with Fedora for workstations and AlmaLinux (previously CentOS) for servers. I'm running bleeding edge hardware and have zero problems with the installed OS. That includes kernel updates with proprietary nvidia drivers.
Installing was an issue, mainly dealing with the media check. It had to do with my usb flash drives. Possibly the make or model. I found that using the oldschool way of burning the image to a CD solved said issue.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-09
Votes: 1
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I can't believe how great this Distro is! Is really good out of the box. I have tried so many distros in the past sometimes I get back to Mac OS because Distro hopping. Now that I have tried this great Distro I finally arrive home, finally someone took the initiative and make this great job for the Linux world. I have always liked Fedora but it will take sometime to make it work out of the box this one is not is ready to use with a bunch of good tweaks. I must say whoever land on this page try it out.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-22
Votes: 8
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I've tested more than a dozen distros from the most famous to the least known. Those that offered the most robutez, solidity and virtually unbreakable were "Linux Mint" and Nobara.
Nobara is incredibly easy to configure with the main and fundamental preinstalled tools. In Discord I solved all my problems related to Nobara itself and I found that the other problems were related to the package/program itself and not distro.
The fluidity of "Nobara Kde" is exciting, never broke any package and if I need any exclusive package from another distro I use Distrobox.
I understand the reasons for choosing Timeshift for snapshots, but I still prefer the snapper's pre-installed solution with "BTRF Assistant" from Garuda.
The "Nobara Packet Manager" has been recently remodel and didn't please me much, for example, to brighten the packages to be updated you need to click with the right button and choose "select all" instead of having a straight button for this purpose. Descriptions could be added to the packages and other relevant information such as release date, popularity, developer, etc.
Finally, Nobara became my main distro
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-02-17
Votes: 1
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WOW! I'm running a 27 inch 2011 imac (11,2) that I upgraded to 3.4GHZ with 16 GB RAM. Even with OpenCore, I was having issues getting anything past High Sierra on the machine. So I decided to throw linux on it. I started with Mint, but kept noticing some popping noises coming from the power cord in the back every so often. I tried a few different distros, and while they would all run, I kept having an issue with the popping sound A few months of trying out different distros and ideas, I came across Nobara. IT'S INCREDIBLE!
So, this machine now has ZERO issues with the power popping noise. Hasn't happened once in the few days I've had it installed. I also, can now run Steam and run a few games which is amazing because I couldn't do that earlier. While it definitely has a few things that need to be worked out, this is just an incredbile distro that I hope will continue to be supported and continue to grow.
Issues that's i've seen so far:
Bluetooth: Seems to cut from my Apple Wireless Keyboard and Trackpad and takes a while to reconnect when the machine wakes, sometimes they won't connect again at all and I have to restart.
ERROR REPORTING: Everytime I power back up, error messages. Would love to send them, but I have no idea where to send the logs.
SAMBA: Doesn't work (from what I tried but if I'm wrong, I'm all ears!)
Seriously amazing distro and I'm blown away by the work put into this.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-02-10
Votes: 0
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Jumped on Nobara from Fedora on a recommendation. Fedora update from 36 to 37 borked several config files and no amount of finagling on my part fixed it. Needing something for gaming and Nobara seemed like a good fit since I do like the Fedora ecosystem.
The performance for gaming has been great so far. Having something that wants to install GE proton out of the box for you is just incredible. The custom GNOME looks fine for me. Also having some zen patches in the kernel is just a wonderful bonus.
One gripe I had on my system was post install onto my NVMe drive, that somehow it messed up my EFI boot order, which was then showing Windows as the only OS from my SSD. Also wasn't clearly labeled and looked like a USB boot device in the EFI menu. Was still able to set it, see GRUB, and boot into both Nobara and Windows from it (Something that Fedora gave me problems with). But it's that manual step that I had to do that I haven't had to on Ubuntu/Garuda/Fedora that took points off for me. Aside from that, Nobara is amazing.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 36
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-04
Votes: 4
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very impressed with this!!!
Has now become my goto install.
everything worked straight out of the box.
I have been a fedora user from the days of fedora core, and have looked at all of the fedora based distros that have come about, but finally this is the one that made me switch from the original.
From the familiar installer to the software helper right down to their custom interface everything worked, no issues on any hardware I tried this on.
Yes this is designed to be a gaming distro but I don't think that is how it should be spoke of. This is the fedora distro that does everything! if you work in an office, home, are casual or hardcore gamer you need look no further.
tested on Lenovo Y50-70 and the Y70-70 it worked really I only found that I had an issue on the Y50-70 on steam, due to its older 860 graphics card, this was I lost the pointer in X-wing (which is a 30 year old game) everything else tested worked as expected, but I don't have a big games collection, and haven't brought any in years.
I would like to see more destop options for downloading, but its easy enough to install more (budgie, MATE etc...)
If you are starting out in the world of linux, thinking of coming back to it, or just want the stability of fedora THIS Is the distro you want.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-25
Votes: 4
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Everything works.
I mean everything.
I was using Manjaro for music production but kept having problems with updates that broke things that had come from the AUR.
The thing I really like is how it is apparent that someone actually cares about the overall project working as a whole, and the included and available packages all actually work. The package managers all work, and things don't break.
I'm sorry my review is simplistic, I just feel the need to heap praise on this project.
The Nvidia drivers work, is current and works with Wayland.
The performance with Steam games is better than anything else I have tried, there are even tweaks to Steam's runtime or whatever it's called to make Windows games work on Linux.
Pipewire audio works perfectly, the networking works perfectly, the display manager works right, the bootloader works correctly-
The installer worked right too.
Having things simply work may make it sound like my expectations are low, but it is actually quite great and for me, rare, that all the things I want to have working actually do.
I use the Gnome version, and the only reason I chose it is because I prefer to not have icons on the desktop. Otherwise, the default official version was great too, which I tried for a while.
If for no other reason than to have Steam games working right, oh and Lutris things too, this distro is worth trying.
I use it for my audio engineering work running Yabridge and a ton of Windows VST3 plugins with a few different DAWs and it's solid.
Oh my computer is a something something Asus motherboard with 5700G AMG processor and a 1650 gpu.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-22
Votes: 0
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Nobara is the best distro for gaming currently.
I used Nobara 36 Gnome and Nobara 37 from it's begining,
Nobara 36 Gnome is much more stable. I have an old processor AMD K10 and I had to use - dnf distro-sync - command after installation actualizations on Nobara 37.
I use it for gaming and with Wine Proton GE instead of standard version of Wine in Lutris I'm able to run games, which I was not able to run at another distros.
Performance in gaming is very, very good, but default options in Lutris is set for new hardware.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-01-18
Votes: 1
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Bonjour,
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Version KDE : nombreux logiciels graphiques et utilitaires associés immédiatement disponibles.
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Gestionnaire des tâches : réactivité trop lente et incertaine au lancement des icônes d'applications.
Certaines modifient le gestionnaire : icônes miniatures sur deux lignes (Glimpse, Glimp).
Bon point pour la configuration des imprimantes souvent très compliqué avec Linux :
une Epson jet d'encre ET-2650 et une Xerox laser B210.
Projet bien pensé à suivre et merci pour le travail accompli.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-01-16
Votes: 0
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terrible - at least for me!
I copied the KDE ISO to my Ventoy stick and let it boot from there. From Nobara's grub menue I chose "start Nobara 37". The boot process made it to a, beautifully looking, KDE desktop and immedeately launched the gui -installer, without further intervention from me. I managed to open a terminal and `sudo -su`. Next, in addition to the system allocated zram swapspace, I added some more 16 GB, already existing on my HD. Thereafter I ran `top -S`, watching memory and swap space -usage going up straight away, consuming every available byte of real and swap memory. The process in charge was jfs-debug. Yes, I do have two jfs -partitions on my hd, but what makes the installer sniff around my data before I give it the parameters which partition(s) to use? I kept watching the installer gui "loading module 1" and the `top` CPU & memory usage until the system came to a halt: no more mouse pointer visible, no reaction on Alt+Tab. No chance to enter `systemctl -i reboot`on the console.
At last I had to press the hardware reboot button and felt relieved after stating that none of my partition data had been corrupted. Next step: remove Nobara-37-KDE-2023-01-06.iso from my Ventoy stick.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-16
Votes: 3
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Nobara is like heaven. It just works. It's reliable. What you might not think of but is more important is that Nobara updates ALWAYS just work. Not once have I had to spend hours to repair update damage to get my hardware running again. Even Nobara Installation USB can serve as sort of a rescue disk. It comes with a well written user manual with great installation instructions.
In five months, I've never had a problem excepting one that I caused. I love the interface including the wildflower wallpaper and clock so I've only changed the sleep setting. It's very intuitive to use and the menus and icons are legible and logical. It's fast. It handles multiple programs running with ease.
The only con I've encountered is thatworks so well, I've forgotten all the Linux commands I used to have to use to straighten out my system after updates.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-16
Votes: 0
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Couldn't get live environment to start in Virtualbox. Selected Nobara 37 in the boot loader but after that only got a black screen with the cursor flickering. ACPI shutdown worked so apparently it didn't freeze completely.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-14
Votes: 0
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Solus is very fast distrib and now quite customizable and complete compared to a few years past, kde chrome and wine work very well for my desktop. Very fast in startup and in applications. Gentoo and arch seem slow as turtles by comparison. In my opinion a revolutionary distro hope that Solus makes the community grow . Now that I have installed it, I am convinced to use it, I will also test the efficiency of the updates. I am a linux user for many years, in my humble opinion it seems an excellent way for the future unfortunately not advertised enough. I had a good look at the KDE verson of Solus and I must say, I am really impressed. It's clean, very fast and has most programs that are worth their salt already "in the box"
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-14
Votes: 2
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I am enjoying this version of Linux, I have nVidia prime, and this distro makes it so simple to switch back and forth between the two cards. I have an RTX 3060, with an R7 5800H. It's snappy and responsive. Games seem to run pretty well, even with Proton. I'm running the KDE version, as I am not a fan of Gnome. So far, so good. I haven't experienced any major issues, and I've had it installed for 4 days so far. I don't know if this would run on older hardware or not, but if you have a system that's no more than 10 years old, I'd definitely give this a spin. You can always put another distro on if it doesn't work for you. :)
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 36
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-01-12
Votes: 0
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good morning, attracted to Nobara because it advertised the use of AMD GPU computing qualities via ROCM. Installation of the same was successful and appears, in Blender both the HIP opportunity and OpenCL (Blender 2.9x). The GNOME environment is smooth, although I prefer KDE I preferred to install the distribution's default environment. Wayland display server behaves well but some applications, go crazy. At the moment Blender 3.x is likely that using HIP may crash your application and give you a sudden shutdown. Applications that make use of Tensorflow, Python, Keras, Conda: Deep Learning applications (Stable Diffusion has several difficulties). Unfortunately, many of these are built on the Ubuntu distribution, and when a multitude of users and companies are "comfortably" using one distribution for such important applications call Mafia. It is a distribution that holds great potential.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-11
Votes: 3
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Very good stability for work and also creation.
A very lively and helpful community.
A good structuring and coherence, compared to many Debian-like which will seem chaotic next to it.
And therefore a very high reactivity in the event of a problem, which will be quickly resolved...
I love the fact that it is not only very easy to use, but is also very powerful. I highly recommend this Distro for anyone how wants a good and customizable Operating System that just works. KVM switch and all my devices are recognized, and plug n' play functionality has been seamless.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-11
Votes: 0
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Nobara is excellent distribution for the gamer and content creator.
It feels very professional and up to date. It's not perfect but no distribution is. Older peripherals such as DVD burner/writers will require research to get up and going. But all in all, I really can't complain.
Setting up KVM/Qemu Virt-manager on Nobara is easy, as well as media codecs.
Once setup, it's great even for a novice Linux user. Set it and forget it if you will. Automatic updates can be enabled for beginners and works very very well. So all they have to do is boot and use.
The package management of Fedora in general is clean and does a great job of taking care of itself.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-01-11
Votes: 0
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The premise is excellent but the distribution is not stable. I have an RTX 3070 and the system is extremely slow with severe visual tearing. Nvidia drivers are installed and on Fedora Workstation I don't have this problem. I tried the installation several times, same on a different machine this time with AMD 6900 but the result is almost the same, all games (both native and platinum from ProtonDB) are extremely slow with obvious FPS drops. Booting is extremely slow on both bare metal and VM (qemu).
Furthermore, the distribution is loaded with bloatware, GNOME is not stock and gives me the impression of using a toy.
The idea is great, Nobara is in concept a better, modern and out of the box Fedora, just not yet and needs a LOT more testing.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-07
Votes: 5
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Pragmatic feature modifications, performance, functionality, attractive eye candy built on a solid legacy Redhat foundation. Excellent Linux distribution for the gamer and content creator. I think this Nobara distribution is a MX-Linux wake up call for a distro war!! I don't know if MX's custom software tools can save itself from a mass exodus to Nobara, really. MX-Linux is showing its age like a rusted out beat up 57 Chevy. Its classic but fading. If Dolphin wants to survive, he better get those flippers working and cough that mucous out of his blow hole. If I want to show off a polished and attractive system, Nobara has the potential to flip many Windows 11 bangers to come over and join the Linux BBQ. Setting up KVM/Qemu Virt-manager on Nobara is easy as pie and running Windows as a guest VM within a pinch of native bare metal is awesome performance.
Oh yeah, the only criticism I have for Nobara is getting KDE option up to eye candy par with the Gnome counterpart, trivial criticism indeed but I do believe each flavor should reach visual and functional parity regardless. That is all.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 37
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-07
Votes: 6
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after using it for two weeks, I find Nobara to be a well polished and refined os. Great for gaming as you can install nvidia drivers as well as the proprietary AMD drivers. I do wish that The Linux Zen kernel was available. I had to compile that myself which was very lengthy. But overall even as a daily driver it's nice and comfortable to live in as it includes many apps that most people use such as Libre Office and Rythmbox. Firefox of course is the default browser. Package management is very easy and beginner friendly.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 36
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-01-06
Votes: 2
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Being fairly new to Linux, Nobara is one that really stuck out to me as I was distro hopping. I've tried both the standard ISO with customizations (GNOME DE) and the standalone GNOME - and from the time I tried the standard ISO there were some weird issues with some apps not opening. I chalk it up to some extensions that come with that ISO as I did not have any problems with the GNOME ISO.
This distribution works out of the box.
My build is: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro (2022) - Radeon GPU, RYZEN 5, 16GB ram
Looking forward to the upcoming updates and improvments being made to Fedora that Nobara will greatly benefit fun. I liken this distro to Manjaro of Fedora.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 36
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-01-04
Votes: 9
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Nobara is basically to Fedora what Mint is to Ubuntu or MX is to Debian. It's a highly customized "spin" of the base distribution with ready access to drivers and tweaks that can significantly improve system performance--especially for gaming. You might have heard of the distro's maintainer, Glorious Eggroll, who also works for Red Hat and develops a custom fork of Steam Proton, the compatbility layer for playing Steam games for Windows on Linux.
With Fedora 37's removal of mesa packages for decoding videos with AMD GPUs (due to patent issues), it became more apparent just how much the average user needs to customize Fedora after install just to get a decently working computer. Nobara automates this process and does a lot of advanced tweaks that most users would never have sought themselves. It can come across as a highly customized experience but if you've used GNOME or KDE before you really aren't going to be in too unfamiliar a territory.
If you didn't care for Fedora, this distro won't change your mind about it, but if you want to push Fedora's capabilities beyond its official vanilla release and save at lot of time in setup, give this one a try.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-03
Votes: 5
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Ever since Windows 11 came out, after trying it out for about 5 days I knew I had to give up on Windows since my experience kept getting worse and worse. I tried out Fedora 36 for about 6 months, which was a pretty good experience, but I had some major issues with playing games and some customization issues that I had wished could have been fixed. After seeing TechHut's review of Nobara 36, I noticed that all of the issues that I had been having with Fedora 36 were fixed in Nobara 36. I immediately switched over to Nobara and have never had such a great experience. As soon as I logged in, everything just worked. I never have to search for a a website for special software since a huge majority of the any software or drivers you may need are included in the Nobara software center. I love the fact that it is not only very easy to use, but is also very powerful. I highly recommend this Distro for anyone how wants a good and customizable Operating System that just works.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 36
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-01-02
Votes: 14
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I've installed Nobara 36 on both my gaming desktop (5800X3d/6800XT) and gaming laptop (6900HS/6700S) and everything has just worked. I didn't have to collect additional drivers or manually configure anything. Be it Steam, Lutris, or even DaVinci Resolve, my departure from Windows 10 has been flawless thus far.
Battery life on the laptop is still nearing 9 hours and plugging/unplugging a portable external display (via HDMI) works exactly as it should. I've even got my laptop plugged into a Level1Techs DP1.4 KVM switch and all my devices are recognized, and plug n' play functionality has been seamless.
I'm still learning how to navigate the Linux UI but after having used Pop!_OS for 8 months last year, I've been very pleased with my Linux experience so far and I look forward to an accelerated future of advancements while Windows seems content to regress with each update.
Thanks GE and team. Keep up the good work.
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