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Nobara Project
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Reader supplied reviews for Nobara Project
Average rating
8.0 from 98 review(s)
Version: 42
Rating: 8
Date: 2025-05-22
Votes: 1
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I use Linux to revive old computers and Nobara Linux works well on a 2015 MacbookAir, where other distros had problems. The installation program worked smoothly while other popular distros failed to detect the SSD or failed to boot.
The challenge to get WiFi working with the Broadcom drivers required a USB-WiFi dongle and a search for code that was copied into the Terminal program. Some time was spent searching the internet for code to get hardware drivers to work and install some familiar programs.
The laptop is used with Brother printers and scanners for which they host device drivers in 64bit .rpm format that successfully installed. The popular programs are Fedora or Debian-Ubuntu and Nobara which uses Fedora apps was chosen.
The repo contained some useful programs but I couldn’t find all that I usually install. Others like Veracrypt and Krusader were installed with Terminal commands.
I chose KDE desktop and there was a bit of adjustment from more familiar and preferred XFCE. The Gnome version was not such a useful desktop. KDE maybe a bit slower than Linux with XFCE. Nobara seems compact enough for the 30G partition which was reserved on the SSD for it.
The Apple webcam worked on another Linux distro but the driver for Nobara is still a challenge.
I expected Firefox as the default browser but Brave works well. The repository also has Chrome and Firefox. The Firewall and Upgrade app settings were not immediately obvious. Overall Nobara Linux v42 feels like a well constructed system.
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Version: 42
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-05-21
Votes: 0
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Great distro for beginners with a lot of OTB gaming configurations, maintained by the one and only GloriousEggroll who has contributed greatly towards the proton project with his own patch implementations that helps to solve a lot of the issues when running games through wine.
The distro features easy to setup installation of nvidia drivers and a ready to use steam package as well as lutris and other packages you would expect in a gaming system.
Updating the system is very straight forward with the custom made update gui , and if you would run in to any issues there's a very active and friendly discord community that can help out!
only gripe would be the included brave browser but removing it and installing something palatable like librewolf takes only a couple of seconds.
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Version: 42
Rating: 2
Date: 2025-05-21
Votes: 2
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Overloaded with excess (heavy weight), the stupid mandatory removal of the boot to a separate partition, i.e. it is necessary to make a separate partition for boot (in addition to efi), with a size of +/- gig, otherwise the system will not start. There's a bunch of pre-installed stuff, but there's no video player. Extremely poor gui of update and package managers. The settings and design of the terminal console do not change. Stupid brav with his wallet, which requires a key to make/configure from the start... In general, I didn't like it and left an extremely bad impression. And a floating difference of a couple fps in games is not a reason to choose.
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Version: 42
Rating: 2
Date: 2025-05-18
Votes: 1
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It was a good distro but sadly with the recent changes they made its no longer a distro i will recommend as they now use a very controversial browser (Brave) "for technical reasons" instead of just bloody sticking to firefox like a sane person or librewolf if you are that paranoid. you cant even remove the Repository properly because it'll just respawn once you've used their "recommended" updater.
and the other nail in the coffin is GenML wallpapers. seriously fuck GenML its shit for the environment and is plagiarism (and a right wing washing tool).
That out of the way I dont notice any real difference performance wise between standart Fedora and Nobara, its within margin of error.
Horrible screen flickers at 144hz which aren't there on Fedora.
I cant even justify the convenience of having steam preinstalled or a "driver installer" UI, their installer is incredibly fragile and i had people trying to use it reporting only installation failures.
If you want a good Distro this isnt it.
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Version: 42
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-05-17
Votes: 0
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No soy usuario avanzado de linux pero uso estos sistemas desde el 2009, dicho esto puedo decir que:
1º - La Instalación es sencilla
2º - Hay mucho software para cubrir las necesidades de uso común
3º - Es de uso sencillo
4º - Actualizaciones constantes y rápidas
5º - Interfaz altamente configurable
6º - Con Steam y Lutris vais a tener un catalogo de videojuegos brutal
7º - No requiere licencias ni registros
Por decir algo negativo diré que que al realizar la última actualización en el grub me aparecían varias versiones y tenía que elegir la versión 42 ya que por defecto iniciaba con la 41, cosa que usando chatgpt he solucionado.
Ryzen 3600
Rx 5700
32Gb Ram
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Version: 42
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-05-14
Votes: 1
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I use Nobara since 9 months.
Runs flawless with my Nvidia GPU. You don't have to install all the necessary tweaks and tools because it's already there. Not bloated with useless apps.
I really like the driver manager where you can choose between nvidia open source or github version etc.
Or the nobara tweak tool where you can auto mount your external drives via checkboxes.
It's very userfriendly, after the installation you can just go ahead and start.
On my screen with 144hz, there's no screen flickering, gaming performance is nearly the same as on other distros.
The update manager is "selfmade" and there are some minor issues.
Updates for the updater itself causes it so freeze so you don't know if the update is still running or not.
Had to look at the logs to see, it's still running and performing the update. Just the GUI froze.
with nobara-sync cli via the terminal, this problem didn't appeare once.
The updater got some scripts, looking for known bugs and issues for each package which will be installed.
Never had an update which broke my system.
One time, I had to "sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh" due to continuesly 400+ updates on each reboot. With that, all the updates got installed correctly and it was not an issue anymore.
All in all, it's just a minor issue which happends like every 3 months. It's just the GUI of the updatear freezing so the update itself works.
Can't say another negative about this distro because there isn't.
I recommend it to everyone, who just want a distro which is stable, performs well and hate updating the whole system every year or two (debian) with a lot of issues or got a broken update on Arch again.
The package software is really new and the kernel (2025/05/14) on v6.14.6
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Version: 41
Rating: 4
Date: 2025-04-30
Votes: 2
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Looks pretty, very under-baked
Main Issues:
-nobara-sync (cli&gui) never functioned properly. constantly prompted that 500+ packages needed updates, after being prompted to reboot I was greeted by the same message that 500+ packages needed updates again
-nobara-drivers (gui) was always stuck downloading driver database, never functioned properly
-setting refresh rate to locked 144hz caused screen flickering
-game performance out of the box was abysmal, easily ~20-30fps lower than ubuntu on my setup with some games flat out crashing on startup unless an older version of proton was used
Minor gripes:
-couldn't really interface with my gpu fan settings, very broadly I could set power modes that cranked my fans regardless of whether the gpu was being used actively or not
-wifi connection was dropping & reconnecting every now and then
System:
Asus zephyrus m16 (gu603)
cpu: intel i7 11800h
gpu: nvidia rtx 3050 ti mobile
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Version: 41
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-04-17
Votes: 0
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Nobara seems to have real problems with the current Nvidia
RTX 5000 cards. Starting the live distro ends in all three start versions in a black screen with a blinking sign in the right corner. Or there is a fixed progress circle surrounded by a blue corona. So you can't even install. I have no idea how Nobara could be elevated to the best game distro here. Maybe Nobara (and Fedora currently 42) just can't handle Nvidia graphics cards or it's just the current Nvidia driver, which can't be activated properly with the current Fedora 42.Nobara should take an example from CachyOS here. Everything works right away.
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Version: 41
Rating: 8
Date: 2025-04-10
Votes: 3
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The Best Linux so far. Normal use is like using Fedora - Great, understandably. Gaming, wow, so easy. Only grumble - when using Decky for my gaming, if I need to & forget to change sound either speakers to headset or the other way, I have to go out of Decky to change it. Updating is virtually automatic including some fixes. I prefer KDE to Gnome, but both need a thorough upgrade. I think newbies to linux should keep Nobara in mind, especially if they are looking to gaming. Once a more novice language is introduced for installation, setting up, help etc. Nobara could become a leading Linux os?
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Version: 41
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-04-02
Votes: 8
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WOW WOW WOW! Cool distro! I really liked it from the very beginning of installation. I uninstalled Win 11 and installed Nobara OS. Games work, drivers can be installed through the manager in two clicks, there are separate rpm packages for many programs, virtualization works perfectly (I installed Win 11 Pro for the test). I have absolutely no reason to think about replacing it with other distros. It is worth noting the convenient work with Flatpak and the ability to completely uninstall all packages for Flatpak in one click. I could go on for a long time, but I won't. I just want to say that this is a great OS.
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Version: 41
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-03-24
Votes: 2
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I like to experiment to see how the Linux community does for gaming distros
This one get top marks and runs windows games out of the box for me at least.
I will try this out for the next while. I am used to the Debian command so it will be a learning curve but keep it all gui if possible these days.
I tried Garunda and that is another good one since its setup out of box also but i do not have the best of luck with arch based and usually they crash and i have to reinstall
ran easy from ventoy or easy2boot. if someone complains command line then prob did something wrong or bad iso download. it has worked on 2 different intel laptops that are 4th and 7th gen
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Version: 41
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-03-23
Votes: 0
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Rubbish. Wouldnt even boot install on a clean HDD with all the ISO files extracted. kept giving me a GRUB command line which goes nowhere. You want people to move away from Windows yet you cannot even get the thing to start an install. I really havent got the time and inclination to learn command line geek stuff just to make something work. Do you think people would use Windows if they had to learn command line nonsense first in order to make it work properly? Im sure it works well for people who time to learn this stuff. If I could give it Zero i would.
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Version: 41
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-02-25
Votes: 3
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Though a bit strange of an updating scheme, for a new user, following the correct procedures should result in buttery smooth performance. The refinement post Fedora is noticeable in day to day computing and the user interface makes for a system easily configured with a button. I would recommend this distribution to a newcomer to computers. Occasionally if a hick-up is found, the community is accommodating and friendly to even novice users. Please take care to follow instructions for updates and procedures. They are basic and laymen and quite useful.
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Version: 41
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-24
Votes: 1
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The other day my boyfriend asked me to install a distro on his laptop, for simple things like surfing the Internet and editing documents. I thought of Nobara as something “out of the box” for this purpose. It's an excellent distro, but the customization of its settings brings “risks” in having a friendly software center that installs and updates the system, so it has its own custom updater, but no GUI upgrade. Hardware acceleration also didn't come ready by default, as I had wished. Again, great distro, but perhaps for a beginner's basic use it would be better to hand over a configured Fedora, albeit with a bit more work.
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Version: 41
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-23
Votes: 3
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Excellent Linux distribution. Basically, it's Fedora with added value. The default environment is KDE Plasma. In my opinion, the biggest asset is the fact that third-party multimedia codecs and repositories are pre-installed in the system, which many novice users will certainly appreciate. Nobara includes Lutris, ProtonPlus and Steam game platforms already pre-installed, which is sure to be appreciated by gamers. The Yum Extender tool is preinstalled to install the software. If it does not suit someone, Dnf Dragora can be installed. I am completely satisfied with the Yum Extender. I see a big plus in setting the appearance to a dark environment, which suits me, I have chosen a dark environment in every distribution, and in Nobara Linux it is already set right after installation. I've been using the system for a few days now, but haven't encountered any issues yet. I can't score anything other than 10/10. Many thanks to the developers.
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Version: 41
Rating: 3
Date: 2025-01-04
Votes: 1
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Now I booted the given latest version iso to 3 types of usb 1-ventoy 2-rufus 3-fedora image writer in all of them it stays on the boot screen in the first two options it stays on a black screen and in the third option it opened it went directly to the installation screen it gave a crash error but the installation was progressing I was patient the installation was completed. When I restarted it all stayed on the black screen in all options I am asking this distribution which is useful for games does not recognize 16 gb nvidia rtx 4070 ti. I checked the isos and installed them without any errors, that is there is no error in the iso file there is no error in the usbs I could never install this distribution please write the system requirements for which computers this linux distribution was written even in two or three lines and I would like to say a few words about the system of the disrtowach site if you are not going to publish the articles written here why do you open this area for us make room for those who directly provide the distribution so that they can write and they do not know what these faulty isos are.
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Version: 41
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-03
Votes: 4
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I use linux (and linux gaming) as a main distro since 2016, along with windows.
So I had to gain some experience in setting up wine and games, was happy about proton later and so on...
Distro hopping was my hobby until now. Tried so many distros out there... Can't count 'em anymore. Way too many.
The installation was flawless.
Everything runs out of the box or can be installed via the package manager or flathub.
I'm just missing a progress bar while installing new software via GUI.
My racing setup works quite well, but it should be already integrated within the kernel.
Because for every kernel update, I have to reinstall the whole driver and delete the old kernel for my racing wheel which gets annoying.
This happens every ~3 weeks.
The upgrade from v40 to v41 went smooth without any issues.
You don't have to reinstall the whole system. Just 4 commands.
That's why it's one of my favorite distros for gaming:
Rolling release with new, but stable software.
Fedora/Nobara won't crash after 4 months like bleeding edge release models, where you really have to be careful and look out for dependencies.
Yes, I know about apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges. Or apt-mark to put it on hold.
But it's still too unstable an the lifetime didn't satisfy me for a long life disto.
Happy to have finally found my favorite distribution!
I use Nobara since 5 Months.
My father uses Nobara since 1.1.2025.
It's to see where people with nearly no knowledge about linux run into issues.
I don't run into many issues anymore because of the experience I (had to make) made.
So to see through others eyes I guess it's a good idea to help people, who want to get rid off windows easier.
Have a great time, I recommend Nobara!
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Version: 41
Rating: 2
Date: 2025-01-03
Votes: 1
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I just tried Nobara Standard 41 and it barely starts on my virtual machine and the live runs extremely slow, the calamari installer works, and in the end after rebooting after being in live mode to fully enter the already installed system it feels somewhat better, I didn't see an app store, just one thing there that seems like a very simple and strange list, then I tried to install nobara 41 gnome and it wouldn't start, it stayed on a black screen both the virtual and the physical one, the truth is it needs a bit of polish, the concept is good, I suppose they will fix it later.
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Version: 40
Rating: 5
Date: 2024-11-10
Votes: 7
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KDE has problems with multi monitor support. Was not able to switch my monitor without freezing system sometimes. As well, one monitor remains dark so i had to reinstall whole system. Especially pressing Win+P (=Super+P) and choosing "combine monitors" destroyed the monitor setting permanently and I was not able to reset the system. The main monitor again remains black. Also the updater showing strange behavior. It starts to update packages and opening a second updater task in-between. First one was showing a failure and second one proceeded after the second one was fished.
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Version: 40
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-10-11
Votes: 25
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Nobara, moreso than any distrobution I've ever touched, is the most "just works" distro out there, and the best option for gaming. It's the most stable, gives me the least problems, and just flat out performs well. Anything I've ever struggled with in Nobara is just issues that are universal to Linux, but I'm mostly just running Steam and emulators. I've tried Ubuntu, PopOS, Garuda, AthenaOS, Arch, & Bodhi Linux and this has been what I've settled on. Install is a cinch, too, but any distro with the Calamare installer is. The discord is pretty helpful if you have issues. I was initially worried about it being a fork of Fedora considering the politics of that but nothing has manifested from that. If you're looking to get a gamer away from Windows, this is THE choice.
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-08-03
Votes: 3
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Installed on Acer Aspire 3 and absolutely amazing. Long time Linux Mint user but Mint wouldn't install the AMD Radeon driver at install as Nobara did. Very impressed !!
The Plasma desktop is also impressive with Nobara. The system is very fast and I have not experienced one single issue with Nobara at all. The battery life is impressive with Nobara as well as the fact that the cooling fan doesn't run much at all as it did with Mint. The games are also playing well and this laptop is not a designated gaming laptop however it runs games fine. The video quality awesome.
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Version: 40
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-29
Votes: 9
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Outstanding technical Fedora 40 implementation with all the Nvidia / gaming configuration done as part of the install process. Runs games beautifully. I was super impressed with the KDE 6.1.1 kernel 6.8xx implementation.
I code (Golang / Python) and game and his Linux implementation hits the requirements for me. Flatpak requirement using Plasma discovery application works great and I prefer flatpaks over snaps.
My hardward is fairly high-end: 4080 I9 13th gen intel with 64 gigabyte of ram. I'm looking forward to the continued improvement in KDE / Wayland and how these improvments will be incorporated ito future Nobara versions.
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Version: 40
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-07-22
Votes: 10
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I upgraded from Nobara 39 to 40 and I hat a thin white border when gaming on full screen. It was annoying.
So I reinstalled it completely and everything worked out of the box.
I used the Nvidia ISO and everything just works. All I had to do was install all my games from Steam and I was up and running in an hour.
Distro is very well done and very polished. I fell in love with KDE because of Nobaa, I used Gnome since 2009 as my primary DE. But that all changed with Nobara introducing me to the full KDE experience.
I hope this distro gets more and more love.
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Version: 40
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-07-20
Votes: 1
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Sadly my duel Acer multi monitor set up on AMD hardware was too much for Nobara KDE, trying to configure the monitors caused the system to crash completely, and it refused to offer anything but blank screens, I installed another SSD HD with Debian 12, and had no issues at all.
I noted that the initial install of Nobara was far from smooth, with several problems installing updates, the whole install process was tedious compare to other distro using a similar installer. I have used Debian 12 and Fedora 40 on this PC with no issues at all, so it is not a hardware issue, AMD RX 580 graphics, intel i3 9100f and 16 gigs Kingston Ram with an MSI H3DM pro MB..
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-16
Votes: 11
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I have already tried many Linux distributions. I started with Nobara, then tested a few others and ended up with Nobara again. Right from the start, everything I smoked as a gamer runs. Steam and Lutris are already installed and just need to be set up. The latest Nvidia beta driver is also already running and does not have to be installed first, which is not always so easy. So you can get started quickly. So far I have not experienced any problems with KDE and Wayland. For me, Nobara is the best alternative to Windows so far.
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-14
Votes: 3
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I've been trying out linux distros for many years, but Nobara impressed me. A big 10 for you, because the only linux that runs Path Of Exile like windows. Note that I don't play on Steam.I used to play a lot (I'm not exactly young anymore...) and I got stuck on this game. Well the problem was to get off windows. I started to learn linux, and tried the distros one after the other. The goal is to run my favorite games the same as on windows.(Now many of you will say hey many linux run games the same as windows) My configuration is : i5 4590 16GB RAM RX550 2GB. On this configuration none of the linux distros could run my game like Nobara. Windows is just a memory.......
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-03
Votes: 3
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I'm giving it a 10/10 because for a gaming distro, it does just that. All of my games work flawless and with no issue. And I didn't even had to change anything.
I installed the offial nvidia image (Since I run an RTX 3060) and it runs smoother than Pop Os. I've been using Pop for a year now, and just switched to Nobara and immediately I notice the desktop runs smoother, the games have 0 issues, same as on Pop and KDE is the default dekstop now, and it's configured perfectly.
I highly encourage people to at least try it.
In the past I tried Nobara 38, and I switched back after a day, but this version is polished. Good job, team Nobara.
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Version: 39
Rating: 3
Date: 2024-06-01
Votes: 1
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I distro hopped a lot over the last 12 months and finally tried out Nobara because i wanted a proper gaming focused distro for a long time.
My System:
Ryzen 7 7800X3D, RTX 4090, 64GB DDR4 6200.
it looks great... yeah. that's all.
What happened?
Go to their website, download Nobara 39 (NVidia Version).
Balena Etcher, reboot, and boot from the thumbdrive.
"THIS VERSION IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED!" (this stays on your screen for 30 seconds and appears over 3 times over the install)
reached the live enviroment, wiped the drive, and started the installation.
Black screen? i waited for almost 20 minutes and it was stuck frozen with a black screen and i rebooted and tried again.
wiped the drive a second time, the installation finished.
booting up for the first time with the same "no longer supported" message.
logged in, imediately a hard crash and a flashing underscore in the top right corner. for ~30 seconds.
then it came back at the login screen.
logged in a second time and i started the recommended update utility.
it started downloading basically everything over again and patched the distro without further issues.
reboot, logged in... black screen --> log in screen. "PlasmaShell has crashed."
logged in again, downloaded firefox, thunderbird, bitwarden and protonup-qt.
black screen that recovered after 10 seconds. "PlasmaShell has crashed."
wiped the drive again, downloaded nobara again, grabbed a new USB Stick and tried it again.
install, crashes, black screens after every login...
then i checked the settings and enabled VRR on both displays (auto setting)
and guess what. VRR does not work...
changed VRR to "always" and it still has no function. (Monitor stays at max refreshrate in game)
Played CS2 and wondered imediately: why does it run so bad? i have barely 100 FPS at 1440p with minimum settings (for example in W11 i have ~500-800 FPS with the same settings)
it stutters like crazy, runs in two digit framerates and then crashed... followed by "PlasmaShell has crashed."
Nobara with NVidia is basically unuseable and unfunctional.
Nothing works, it is extremely unstable, settings do not work and the KDE 6.05 Implementation is disastrous.
i can not recommend Nobara at all... sadly. because it looks very promising and has basically everything pre set for your gaming rig.
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-05-26
Votes: 7
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TL;DR - Nobara is just Fedora pre-built and ready to go with a custom Fysnc kernel made by GloriousEggroll and a faster KDE/MESA/Kernel update cycle. It's a solid, reliable distro and while it's definitely for someone with a gaming rig, it's worth a look as just a daily driver.
Nobara is my first serious attempt to get off Windows, since I have a decently built gaming rig with a Ryzen 5700x, Radeon 7800XT, using two 1440p 170hz monitors. I notice I have much better luck with my games being "Click to Play" than people on other distros (Source:ProtonDB) I also benchmarked Nobara vs a few other distros like Garuda and Cachyos and found Nobara squeezes a few extra FPS out of Cyberpunk 2077 over them which is always important.
The general experience is a solid and ready out-of-the-box Fedora/Plasma 6.0.4 experience, I changed the theme, but only to expand the idea of it. Nobara has had 2 big updates since I installed it and the reliability has remained rock solid, but even then Nobara a timeshift built into grub like Garuda if anything goes wrong, and I made a couple backups myself.
The package manager is just Yumex, but I stick to Discovery for most things since Discovery is solid now in Plasma 6, it seems to prioritize a Nobara made repo for most things (it still has RPM fusion and others), and the system update button seems to just be a script, but it works every time and can be done in Yumex and Discovery also.
This is just a solid performing gaming distro if you have some good hardware, and it's an amazing daily driver overall. I'd recommend it to anyone, gamer or not. I have been over Nobara KDE for a little over a month now, and I love it, while I have Windows on another drive, I have not had one reason to use it.
I wish I could write more, but it "Just works" for me. I always recommend it to PCMR thinking of ditching Windows.
The only thing I wish it has, was more contributors than the current 3, especially with GloriousEggroll being as busy as he is.
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-05-24
Votes: 0
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For the gamers it just works i love every aspect of it i didn't get on with the gnome version but kde runs so good on my mini pc its gaming great only used it for 2 months but it helped me leave windows far behind me. im playing Ark with a 780m integrated graphics using this o.s . It picks up all devices (so far) You tube also looks incredible the colours brightness everything is just better
I distro hoped since 2004 but now have found a home. As others have said cant wait for the next release Nobara 40
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-05-07
Votes: 1
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I really like Nobara distro, it does have all I need for gaming and for rest things I'm doing time to time but my main usage is gaming. There is really nothing negative to say about Nobara, I've been distro hopping for years already and so far this is only distro without any negative things to find.
Mainly work of one guy (GloriousEggroll), big respects for his work on this Nobara project and various other projects too such as WineGE builds.
I'm so ready for Nobara 40 release when it comes! :)
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-04-13
Votes: 6
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This distro is excellent. It was the only one I found that detected my wifi dongle right from the get-go. It has options to auto mount all drives (external and internal NTFS) on boot, automounts USB flash drives when plugged in as well. This needs to be turned on but what a great thing.
The software center has anything and everything you need but the default installed applications pretty much cover everything an average user would need anyway
Runs like a dream and the theme is awesome. Thanks to the team!
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Version: 39
Rating: 7
Date: 2024-04-13
Votes: 0
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I gave this one a shot a little while back. It didn't end up sticking around.
So, it's basically Fedora with some extra stuff, which, because it ships wine as a major selling point, means you have x86_64 packages AND their 32-bit equivalents installed. That's a lot of wasted space for my purposes (not a gamer - typically don't need or want wine), and even if you try expunging the 32-bit stuff, you run up against the fact that the Nobara control thing itself needs some 32-bit libraries. That was the tipping point for me.
Nobara seems stable, well put together, etc. but its audience is not me. Probably great for people that use wine and/or multilib stuff a lot.
I like the idea of using Fedora as a base for something better, not that it's bad itself. Fedora makes codecs and non-free a little easier now, so maybe the need isn't there anymore, but it's still nice to see more narrowly focused efforts like Nobara even if they're not up my alley. There are so many Debian/Ubuntu and now Arch based distros that it's always refreshing to see things based on the less plundered Fedora/SUSE/Mandriva rpm side of things.
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Version: 39
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-04-01
Votes: 1
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Really nice incremental improvements since it rolled out. Kudos to the team!
Been trying a few distros implementing Plasma 6 and this is the best so far. Still early, but so far so good and it does a good job of showcasing Plasma 6's improvements.
Great ease-of -setup version of Fedora, with gaming support enabled. Would be my first recommendation for gamers. Other users (like myself) benefit from being able to use it at first boot.
An obvious amount of hard work and attention to detail has gone into this project...mad respect and continued success to the developer(s)!
Very much recommended....Gamers, Fedora users, pretty much anyone.
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-03-27
Votes: 2
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After a trip to Fedora 39, there were again minor problems with the Gnome Software Center that could not be fixed and other Gnome peculiarities that got on my nerves. So I went back to Nobara, but this time I chose the main KDE version 39 and not Gnome as before. The installation went smoothly, as usual. However, I was astonished when I upgraded the installation. A whopping 5 GB was required. This took some time, but went smoothly. The printer and scanner were also installed quickly. A look at the system info then showed me why the upgrade was so extensive: the kernel was updated to the latest version, but above all KDE was installed with the new version 6.03. All respect for so much commitment and many thanks.
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-03-25
Votes: 0
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My first linux experience has been mostly phenomenal with Nobara. A week after use, I have of course encountered multiple issues, some minor (like inability to access my drives which was fixed by unmounting drives and remounting them) and some major (like inability to login after boot, requiring restarting my sddm)
The OS comes out of the box with wine, OBS, Nvidia drives etc which made it exceptionally easy and straight forward to use. Installation was super easy and the live environment was a good benchmark.
I originally was going to get Linux Mint, but the moment I read about Nobara it stood out exceptionally and I just had to give it a shot before LM, and I'm glad I did. LM would've done just fine though, but Nobara is a better fit for my use case (gaming and content creation focused)
I use Bottles to run games I have installed locally (coming from windows) and most of them run just fine. Lutris refused to launch them though.
Pros:
-Easy to set up and use
-Comes with wine, drivers, etc out of the box
-Amazing performance (beats other distros most of the time afaik)
Cons:
-You thought there were cons? maybe an issue or two but nothing worth mentioning.
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-03-02
Votes: 3
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Nobara 39 is one solid distro, I'm discovering. After reading the DW review of 36, then 37 on the same page, I had to try it knowing the Nobara team is very responsive to issues pointed out and published, not to mention bug reports.
The installer moves along as expected and as intuitive as we've seen Calameres on so many distros now. Nothing glitchy or unexpected; just did the job then asked if I wanted to reboot out of the live environment and boot into the installation, which I did.
Everything came up normally and I was presented with a nice, smooth KDE/Gnome desktop (I see what you did there, Nobra devs). Configuring is easy as anyone familiar with KDE will see that all the tweaks and customisations they're used to are there and then some. All of my live tweaks were remembered and were there for me on the first boot of the OS.
It's fast, and it seems to have a smaller footprint than MX Linux has (my main daily driver.. for now, I may change my mind and stick with Nobara as long as no updates break it etc).
I highly recommend Nobara 39 and especially want to see more user feedback about versions passed 37 as it appears the Nobara devs really do listen.
Easy 10 out of 10.
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-02-29
Votes: 8
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I tested and used countless distros over the years but Nobara is the only one which automatically enables and correctly sets up fractional scaling for my 3:2 laptop...
Everything else seems to work without issues, everything is automatically nicely setup and configured.
No major issues with full disk encryption and auto-login options during install.
Applying custom sweet theme in KDE is also stable unlike Kubuntu/Ubuntu Studio where it can be glitchy.
All in all great distro - maybe the best one yet in Linux world for everyday use :)
Looking forward to Nobara 40 with KDE 6 and Wine 9
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Version: 39
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-02-11
Votes: 1
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Decided to stick with GNOME rather than KDE for this, but overall a pretty stellar experience. Over the past month, I have only run into a small handful of things unrelated to Nobara itself. I did have a situation where the Nobara updater blew out the GUI after an update, but I was able to repair it fairly quickly from the command line.
I’m not really a gamer, more someone who occasionally likes running something on Steam. My goal has been productivity, and on that front I have found the mix of Fedora with a handful of optimizations to be a great fit. (I had been running Debian and Pop!_OS previously, and I felt at home really quickly.) Strikes a good balance for people who want up-to-date drivers but don’t want to deal with Arch.
Highly recommend it.
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Version: 39
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-02-08
Votes: 0
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It works out of the box.
There are issues that are not actually related to the Nobara project. The good thing is that the Discord community is there for help.
Nobara Linux features a sleek and minimalist user interface that emphasizes ease of use and accessibility.
Despite being a newcomer, Nobara Linux has quickly built a supportive community around its distribution. Users can find help and guidance through online forums, social media channels, and official documentation. The developers are actively engaged with the community, listening to feedback and incorporating suggestions to continually improve the distribution.
The desktop environment, based on KDE, is designed to be intuitive for both new and experienced Linux users. With its clean layout and thoughtful design choices, navigating through the system feels effortless.
I would recommend this distro after a few months with Pop or Mint. Like Linux T. said, Steam really helps this community.
It is a Fedora based distro so if you are distro hopping it is good to know. I am actualy trying to pull people from Windows to this distro
so that they can play games with better FPS in some cases.
The best thing about it is that is has all the drivers one click away.
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Version: 39
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-01-24
Votes: 0
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I like it. But there's always something...
Just installed Nobara (Gnome) a week or two ago alongside Win 10. Took me about 5 tries to install and still had to fix the Grub thingy myself.
It booted fine with SecureBoot enabled and then refused to boot when I installed nvidia drivers - turns out you have to disable secureboot for that (would be nice to warn people) and I spent another 4 hrs googling.
After that it worked fine, I even installed Steam and tried a game or two. And I was able to install and play WoW Classic. No major problems.
But every time I boot some small things stop randomly working. Today it stopped letting me access my Windows drives. Pretty sure it's not Nobara's fault, but it's getting annoying. So I'm giving a 9 for now.
I've been trying to switch to Linux for a while now and I can tell you there's no "perfect" distro. I think Linux needs like 5-10 more years in the oven. I like Fedora and Nobara is even better.
Probably gonna keep it on my main PC and Manjaro (or other Arch based distro) on my laptop.
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Version: 39
Rating: 4
Date: 2024-01-15
Votes: 5
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Installation worked just fine, as opposed to mother Fedora. The first three days I enjoyed an awesome KDE desktop, with applications and system tools to my liking. Alas then ..... after a system update the GUI broke, mouse got stuck, no chance to continue work. I was lucky that I reached a console by means of Alt+Ctrl+F6 and could bring the system down orderly. `dmesg` showed a problem with the noveau -driver, the one that works fine for my old Quadro FX 580 video card in every other distro. The graphics card is more than adequate for my usage of 2D apps only.
My guess is that the update of "linux firmware" (a ~ 250 MB download!) is the culprit. Once again I came to the conclusion that I have become too old for distros that throw half a GB of updates at my machine every few days, which have not gone thru proper QA.
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Version: 39
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-01-07
Votes: 2
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My quest for a suitable Linux distribution led me on a journey that started with RedHat and Fedora, but technical hurdles led me to discover Nobara Linux, a creation of Thomas Cridler, also known as GloriusEggroll, a software maintenance engineer at RedHat.
What immediately stands out in Nobara is its attractive and user-friendly graphical interface. The KDE environment, despite my expectations of GNOME, is presented elegantly and functionally. Graphic settings and wallpapers are visually stunning, creating a positive initial experience.
The installation, though slightly slow, is quite straightforward, and the distribution takes up 39.80GB, which may seem a bit tight for some. However, for initial tests, it was sufficient. The distribution proves efficient for non-technical users, allowing easy access without the need for deep Linux knowledge.
Nobara positions itself as a solid choice for specific users, such as gamers and streamers. It comes pre-installed with essential tools like Wine, Steam, and a platform for cloud gaming. This greatly facilitates compatibility with games, a factor that is often problematic in other distributions.
However, some areas need improvement. The system's weight, while lower than that of Windows, could still be optimized. Additionally, I noticed that the cursor had visual issues, which could be attributed to the live version or resource limitations, but it's an aspect to improve.
The ability to drag windows to occupy the entire screen or half is a lovely feature, as is the ability to install packages with a simple command. This makes life easier for those unfamiliar with the command line.
The creator of Nobara, Thomas Cridler, showcases his software development expertise by offering a distribution designed to simplify basic tasks and maximize compatibility with games. Although some areas can be improved, such as the cursor and system weight, Nobara Linux deserves a solid 9 for its innovative approach and the overall positive experience it provides for specific users.
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-02
Votes: 1
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Creative and eye-friendly logo, I hope that someday it will be displayed during booting by default.
It has very useful script-program for updating installed software, including Flatpaks; it also has a cool Nobara Package Manager.
It's not bloated with unwanted applications.
The NVIDIA Drivers Wizard is useful during [reinstallation] of them.
You can see the enthusiasm of the team working on the project, and each new revision is a joy to see.
Nobara + GNOME is such a great combination!
For me, the best distribution.
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Version: 39
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-01-01
Votes: 2
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After distrohopping a tonne to get a usable daily driver for playing video games, nobara has been a godsend.
"it just works" has never been a more true statement than with this distro. Ive used V37,V38 and now V39 with an NVIDIA 2080 Super and its been such a seamless experience. Ive had no major complaints, although the upgrade process could be more automated but thats a minor complaint really.
I am a big fan of their tweaks to gnome when it was the default, and I love the GE proton updated that they have by default.
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-12-31
Votes: 1
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After struggling to get the EA App working in Lutris on Ubuntu, Mint and Pop!_OS, I was blown away by how seamlessly it launched in Nobara. No extra tweaks or packages needed – it just worked beautifully. I'm still getting used to the KDE Plasma desktop feels surprisingly polished and customizable. It's taking some adjustment, but the abundance of features and customization options is already winning me over.
Currently running Nobara on my aging HP Laptop and it's surprisingly smooth. I'm seriously considering giving it a try on my main gaming rig as a potential Windows replacement. If you're a gamer frustrated with compatibility issues in other distros, Nobara is definitely worth checking out.
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-12-30
Votes: 2
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Tried Nobara 39 after frustration with NVIDIA support under Fedora. Under Fedora 39, even with rpmfusion NVIDIA driver, modern games often did not start or had visual problems.
Nobara installation was simple and worked as expected. The defaults for just about everything seem logical. Getting up and running to the point that things work well was super easy.
Not only did every game start and display correctly, Nobara seemed to give a big performance boost.
I generally prefer Gnome, but KDE probably works better as a desktop environment for gaming. Valve chose KDE for the Steamdeck, so Nobara switching to KDE makes sense.
Nobara just needs a bigger user base.
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Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-12-29
Votes: 2
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A distro that I eventually would love to see make it's way to the top of distrowatch, and it appears to be on it's way there. I came to Nobara from Arch because I heard of how well it has integrated with Steam and it's ability to play most of the games I love to play, and I was not disappointment in the least. It seems to play all of the games in my steam library with ease. Not only that, but it has all the ins and outs anyone would need and everything just works. It's stable and reliable and is suited for both power users who love the command line and for the new to Linux users who would just prefer to never open the shell. It comes with flatpaks enabled and ready to go, giving you the option to install whatever you may need. It's just an all around great and user friendly OS. I hope it sticks around for years to come. Flawless!!
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Version: 38
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-12-28
Votes: 0
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I never got quite into Fedora because the first thing you have to do (by definition) is troubleshoot it. Since there is no explanation (even if there are good reasons) or directions provided for why it's functionality seems lacking (the need for a second-party repo called RPM fusion, codecs, etc..) for a standard user experience.
Nobara does not just adress this baGNOME has finally gotten good enough now that it was not just possible, but a good idea to switch to it. The experience with Nobara has been great, even though I am normally used to Debian based distros. My fairly recent hardware is definitely well supported too.
The only complaint I would say I have is that I need to launch Steam from the terminal. Something might have broken upon trying out a Gnome extension, I suspect. Trying out Nobara 39 and keeping it Vanilla should help to figure it out.
I will see how well Debian 12 or testing hold up, and if it falls short this will be my main distro for as long as it's around.
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Version: 39
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-12-28
Votes: 5
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Running a triple OS boot, Win 11/10 and Nobara I increasingly use Nobara as the daily driver now. Primary reason to move away from Microsoft is big privacy concerns with Windows and I always wanted Linux to just work for gaming (for many many years), this is now becoming a realistic proposition.
To my surprise it has ran every game I have thrown at it, and the new Karting Superstars runs a lot smoother than Windows even with similar FPS. Quake2 RTX - no problemo. CyberPunk RTX, yes no issues. All games I tried ran the same or better than Windows.
The inbuilt openRGB is great to get my (tasteful!) lighting setup easily.
The only slight aww moment I had was when I realized I could not set DSR in Nvidia options, though I read this is common elsewhere in Linux (compared to Windows). I have a 4090 GPU but like to play older games using DSR at around 8K resolution specifically, but I cannot do this it seems as I can go no higher than the desktop resolution, or at least general instructions I found on the web didnt seem to work.
I also upgraded from v.38 to 39 using the homepage instructions, completed with no issues.
My setup is
2x ultrawide 3840x1600 (intel i7 14k IGPU is powering one of these)
nvidia 4090
64gb 7200mhz DDR5
If the authors keep specifically pushing this for gamers and concentrate there, add in more bells and whistles to cater directly, I think this will be the number one linux choice, without a doubt. I wish it had more visibility.
Suggestions:
Add e.g emulators, retroarch, dolphin, etc
EA/GOG/EPIC\xbox cloud compatibility out the box and on the desktop ready to roll.
Add in benchmarking programs for CPU/GPU
Add in overclocking programs for CPU/GPU
Fan and temperature integration
Virtual reality - make the 'Virtual Desktop' number1 app on Quest compatible somehow? Further VR compatibility will really take this places.
Make the desktop customization next level, gamers love that :)
Overall a brilliant OS which has easily replaced all other Linux flavours for me and is putting Windows firmly in the shade.
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Version: 39
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-12-28
Votes: 2
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As a person who tests Linux Distro's for years . I found the December 2023 ver of Nobara KDE, quite difficult to understand why this was released as is.
It does install, but the updater hangs with unrecoverable errors of conflicting packages. I had tested the Nobara Gnome version 8 months ago without issue.
I would... as a developer Re-test this KDE version a little better for final release with several hardware units, to get a handle on this. As a side note your boot screen could use a little modernization also.
Regards Robert,
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Version: 38
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-11-19
Votes: 1
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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: 0
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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: 3
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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: 2
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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: 5
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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: 0
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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: 1
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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: 1
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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: 42
Rating: 8
Date: 2025-05-22
Votes: 1
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I use Linux to revive old computers and Nobara Linux works well on a 2015 MacbookAir, where other distros had problems. The installation program worked smoothly while other popular distros failed to detect the SSD or failed to boot.
The challenge to get WiFi working with the Broadcom drivers required a USB-WiFi dongle and a search for code that was copied into the Terminal program. Some time was spent searching the internet for code to get hardware drivers to work and install some familiar programs.
The laptop is used with Brother printers and scanners for which they host device drivers in 64bit .rpm format that successfully installed. The popular programs are Fedora or Debian-Ubuntu and Nobara which uses Fedora apps was chosen.
The repo contained some useful programs but I couldn’t find all that I usually install. Others like Veracrypt and Krusader were installed with Terminal commands.
I chose KDE desktop and there was a bit of adjustment from more familiar and preferred XFCE. The Gnome version was not such a useful desktop. KDE maybe a bit slower than Linux with XFCE. Nobara seems compact enough for the 30G partition which was reserved on the SSD for it.
The Apple webcam worked on another Linux distro but the driver for Nobara is still a challenge.
I expected Firefox as the default browser but Brave works well. The repository also has Chrome and Firefox. The Firewall and Upgrade app settings were not immediately obvious. Overall Nobara Linux v42 feels like a well constructed system.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 42
Rating: 2
Date: 2025-05-21
Votes: 2
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Overloaded with excess (heavy weight), the stupid mandatory removal of the boot to a separate partition, i.e. it is necessary to make a separate partition for boot (in addition to efi), with a size of +/- gig, otherwise the system will not start. There's a bunch of pre-installed stuff, but there's no video player. Extremely poor gui of update and package managers. The settings and design of the terminal console do not change. Stupid brav with his wallet, which requires a key to make/configure from the start... In general, I didn't like it and left an extremely bad impression. And a floating difference of a couple fps in games is not a reason to choose.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 42
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-05-21
Votes: 0
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Great distro for beginners with a lot of OTB gaming configurations, maintained by the one and only GloriousEggroll who has contributed greatly towards the proton project with his own patch implementations that helps to solve a lot of the issues when running games through wine.
The distro features easy to setup installation of nvidia drivers and a ready to use steam package as well as lutris and other packages you would expect in a gaming system.
Updating the system is very straight forward with the custom made update gui , and if you would run in to any issues there's a very active and friendly discord community that can help out!
only gripe would be the included brave browser but removing it and installing something palatable like librewolf takes only a couple of seconds.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 42
Rating: 2
Date: 2025-05-18
Votes: 1
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It was a good distro but sadly with the recent changes they made its no longer a distro i will recommend as they now use a very controversial browser (Brave) "for technical reasons" instead of just bloody sticking to firefox like a sane person or librewolf if you are that paranoid. you cant even remove the Repository properly because it'll just respawn once you've used their "recommended" updater.
and the other nail in the coffin is GenML wallpapers. seriously fuck GenML its shit for the environment and is plagiarism (and a right wing washing tool).
That out of the way I dont notice any real difference performance wise between standart Fedora and Nobara, its within margin of error.
Horrible screen flickers at 144hz which aren't there on Fedora.
I cant even justify the convenience of having steam preinstalled or a "driver installer" UI, their installer is incredibly fragile and i had people trying to use it reporting only installation failures.
If you want a good Distro this isnt it.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 42
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-05-17
Votes: 0
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No soy usuario avanzado de linux pero uso estos sistemas desde el 2009, dicho esto puedo decir que:
1º - La Instalación es sencilla
2º - Hay mucho software para cubrir las necesidades de uso común
3º - Es de uso sencillo
4º - Actualizaciones constantes y rápidas
5º - Interfaz altamente configurable
6º - Con Steam y Lutris vais a tener un catalogo de videojuegos brutal
7º - No requiere licencias ni registros
Por decir algo negativo diré que que al realizar la última actualización en el grub me aparecían varias versiones y tenía que elegir la versión 42 ya que por defecto iniciaba con la 41, cosa que usando chatgpt he solucionado.
Ryzen 3600
Rx 5700
32Gb Ram
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 42
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-05-14
Votes: 1
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I use Nobara since 9 months.
Runs flawless with my Nvidia GPU. You don't have to install all the necessary tweaks and tools because it's already there. Not bloated with useless apps.
I really like the driver manager where you can choose between nvidia open source or github version etc.
Or the nobara tweak tool where you can auto mount your external drives via checkboxes.
It's very userfriendly, after the installation you can just go ahead and start.
On my screen with 144hz, there's no screen flickering, gaming performance is nearly the same as on other distros.
The update manager is "selfmade" and there are some minor issues.
Updates for the updater itself causes it so freeze so you don't know if the update is still running or not.
Had to look at the logs to see, it's still running and performing the update. Just the GUI froze.
with nobara-sync cli via the terminal, this problem didn't appeare once.
The updater got some scripts, looking for known bugs and issues for each package which will be installed.
Never had an update which broke my system.
One time, I had to "sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh" due to continuesly 400+ updates on each reboot. With that, all the updates got installed correctly and it was not an issue anymore.
All in all, it's just a minor issue which happends like every 3 months. It's just the GUI of the updatear freezing so the update itself works.
Can't say another negative about this distro because there isn't.
I recommend it to everyone, who just want a distro which is stable, performs well and hate updating the whole system every year or two (debian) with a lot of issues or got a broken update on Arch again.
The package software is really new and the kernel (2025/05/14) on v6.14.6
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 41
Rating: 4
Date: 2025-04-30
Votes: 2
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Looks pretty, very under-baked
Main Issues:
-nobara-sync (cli&gui) never functioned properly. constantly prompted that 500+ packages needed updates, after being prompted to reboot I was greeted by the same message that 500+ packages needed updates again
-nobara-drivers (gui) was always stuck downloading driver database, never functioned properly
-setting refresh rate to locked 144hz caused screen flickering
-game performance out of the box was abysmal, easily ~20-30fps lower than ubuntu on my setup with some games flat out crashing on startup unless an older version of proton was used
Minor gripes:
-couldn't really interface with my gpu fan settings, very broadly I could set power modes that cranked my fans regardless of whether the gpu was being used actively or not
-wifi connection was dropping & reconnecting every now and then
System:
Asus zephyrus m16 (gu603)
cpu: intel i7 11800h
gpu: nvidia rtx 3050 ti mobile
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 41
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-04-17
Votes: 0
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Nobara seems to have real problems with the current Nvidia
RTX 5000 cards. Starting the live distro ends in all three start versions in a black screen with a blinking sign in the right corner. Or there is a fixed progress circle surrounded by a blue corona. So you can't even install. I have no idea how Nobara could be elevated to the best game distro here. Maybe Nobara (and Fedora currently 42) just can't handle Nvidia graphics cards or it's just the current Nvidia driver, which can't be activated properly with the current Fedora 42.Nobara should take an example from CachyOS here. Everything works right away.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 41
Rating: 8
Date: 2025-04-10
Votes: 3
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The Best Linux so far. Normal use is like using Fedora - Great, understandably. Gaming, wow, so easy. Only grumble - when using Decky for my gaming, if I need to & forget to change sound either speakers to headset or the other way, I have to go out of Decky to change it. Updating is virtually automatic including some fixes. I prefer KDE to Gnome, but both need a thorough upgrade. I think newbies to linux should keep Nobara in mind, especially if they are looking to gaming. Once a more novice language is introduced for installation, setting up, help etc. Nobara could become a leading Linux os?
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 41
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-04-02
Votes: 8
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WOW WOW WOW! Cool distro! I really liked it from the very beginning of installation. I uninstalled Win 11 and installed Nobara OS. Games work, drivers can be installed through the manager in two clicks, there are separate rpm packages for many programs, virtualization works perfectly (I installed Win 11 Pro for the test). I have absolutely no reason to think about replacing it with other distros. It is worth noting the convenient work with Flatpak and the ability to completely uninstall all packages for Flatpak in one click. I could go on for a long time, but I won't. I just want to say that this is a great OS.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 41
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-03-24
Votes: 2
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I like to experiment to see how the Linux community does for gaming distros
This one get top marks and runs windows games out of the box for me at least.
I will try this out for the next while. I am used to the Debian command so it will be a learning curve but keep it all gui if possible these days.
I tried Garunda and that is another good one since its setup out of box also but i do not have the best of luck with arch based and usually they crash and i have to reinstall
ran easy from ventoy or easy2boot. if someone complains command line then prob did something wrong or bad iso download. it has worked on 2 different intel laptops that are 4th and 7th gen
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 41
Rating: 1
Date: 2025-03-23
Votes: 0
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Rubbish. Wouldnt even boot install on a clean HDD with all the ISO files extracted. kept giving me a GRUB command line which goes nowhere. You want people to move away from Windows yet you cannot even get the thing to start an install. I really havent got the time and inclination to learn command line geek stuff just to make something work. Do you think people would use Windows if they had to learn command line nonsense first in order to make it work properly? Im sure it works well for people who time to learn this stuff. If I could give it Zero i would.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 41
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-02-25
Votes: 3
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Though a bit strange of an updating scheme, for a new user, following the correct procedures should result in buttery smooth performance. The refinement post Fedora is noticeable in day to day computing and the user interface makes for a system easily configured with a button. I would recommend this distribution to a newcomer to computers. Occasionally if a hick-up is found, the community is accommodating and friendly to even novice users. Please take care to follow instructions for updates and procedures. They are basic and laymen and quite useful.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 41
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-24
Votes: 1
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The other day my boyfriend asked me to install a distro on his laptop, for simple things like surfing the Internet and editing documents. I thought of Nobara as something “out of the box” for this purpose. It's an excellent distro, but the customization of its settings brings “risks” in having a friendly software center that installs and updates the system, so it has its own custom updater, but no GUI upgrade. Hardware acceleration also didn't come ready by default, as I had wished. Again, great distro, but perhaps for a beginner's basic use it would be better to hand over a configured Fedora, albeit with a bit more work.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 41
Rating: 10
Date: 2025-01-23
Votes: 3
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Excellent Linux distribution. Basically, it's Fedora with added value. The default environment is KDE Plasma. In my opinion, the biggest asset is the fact that third-party multimedia codecs and repositories are pre-installed in the system, which many novice users will certainly appreciate. Nobara includes Lutris, ProtonPlus and Steam game platforms already pre-installed, which is sure to be appreciated by gamers. The Yum Extender tool is preinstalled to install the software. If it does not suit someone, Dnf Dragora can be installed. I am completely satisfied with the Yum Extender. I see a big plus in setting the appearance to a dark environment, which suits me, I have chosen a dark environment in every distribution, and in Nobara Linux it is already set right after installation. I've been using the system for a few days now, but haven't encountered any issues yet. I can't score anything other than 10/10. Many thanks to the developers.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 41
Rating: 3
Date: 2025-01-04
Votes: 1
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Now I booted the given latest version iso to 3 types of usb 1-ventoy 2-rufus 3-fedora image writer in all of them it stays on the boot screen in the first two options it stays on a black screen and in the third option it opened it went directly to the installation screen it gave a crash error but the installation was progressing I was patient the installation was completed. When I restarted it all stayed on the black screen in all options I am asking this distribution which is useful for games does not recognize 16 gb nvidia rtx 4070 ti. I checked the isos and installed them without any errors, that is there is no error in the iso file there is no error in the usbs I could never install this distribution please write the system requirements for which computers this linux distribution was written even in two or three lines and I would like to say a few words about the system of the disrtowach site if you are not going to publish the articles written here why do you open this area for us make room for those who directly provide the distribution so that they can write and they do not know what these faulty isos are.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 41
Rating: 2
Date: 2025-01-03
Votes: 1
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I just tried Nobara Standard 41 and it barely starts on my virtual machine and the live runs extremely slow, the calamari installer works, and in the end after rebooting after being in live mode to fully enter the already installed system it feels somewhat better, I didn't see an app store, just one thing there that seems like a very simple and strange list, then I tried to install nobara 41 gnome and it wouldn't start, it stayed on a black screen both the virtual and the physical one, the truth is it needs a bit of polish, the concept is good, I suppose they will fix it later.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 41
Rating: 9
Date: 2025-01-03
Votes: 4
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I use linux (and linux gaming) as a main distro since 2016, along with windows.
So I had to gain some experience in setting up wine and games, was happy about proton later and so on...
Distro hopping was my hobby until now. Tried so many distros out there... Can't count 'em anymore. Way too many.
The installation was flawless.
Everything runs out of the box or can be installed via the package manager or flathub.
I'm just missing a progress bar while installing new software via GUI.
My racing setup works quite well, but it should be already integrated within the kernel.
Because for every kernel update, I have to reinstall the whole driver and delete the old kernel for my racing wheel which gets annoying.
This happens every ~3 weeks.
The upgrade from v40 to v41 went smooth without any issues.
You don't have to reinstall the whole system. Just 4 commands.
That's why it's one of my favorite distros for gaming:
Rolling release with new, but stable software.
Fedora/Nobara won't crash after 4 months like bleeding edge release models, where you really have to be careful and look out for dependencies.
Yes, I know about apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges. Or apt-mark to put it on hold.
But it's still too unstable an the lifetime didn't satisfy me for a long life disto.
Happy to have finally found my favorite distribution!
I use Nobara since 5 Months.
My father uses Nobara since 1.1.2025.
It's to see where people with nearly no knowledge about linux run into issues.
I don't run into many issues anymore because of the experience I (had to make) made.
So to see through others eyes I guess it's a good idea to help people, who want to get rid off windows easier.
Have a great time, I recommend Nobara!
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 40
Rating: 5
Date: 2024-11-10
Votes: 7
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KDE has problems with multi monitor support. Was not able to switch my monitor without freezing system sometimes. As well, one monitor remains dark so i had to reinstall whole system. Especially pressing Win+P (=Super+P) and choosing "combine monitors" destroyed the monitor setting permanently and I was not able to reset the system. The main monitor again remains black. Also the updater showing strange behavior. It starts to update packages and opening a second updater task in-between. First one was showing a failure and second one proceeded after the second one was fished.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 40
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-10-11
Votes: 25
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Nobara, moreso than any distrobution I've ever touched, is the most "just works" distro out there, and the best option for gaming. It's the most stable, gives me the least problems, and just flat out performs well. Anything I've ever struggled with in Nobara is just issues that are universal to Linux, but I'm mostly just running Steam and emulators. I've tried Ubuntu, PopOS, Garuda, AthenaOS, Arch, & Bodhi Linux and this has been what I've settled on. Install is a cinch, too, but any distro with the Calamare installer is. The discord is pretty helpful if you have issues. I was initially worried about it being a fork of Fedora considering the politics of that but nothing has manifested from that. If you're looking to get a gamer away from Windows, this is THE choice.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-08-03
Votes: 3
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Installed on Acer Aspire 3 and absolutely amazing. Long time Linux Mint user but Mint wouldn't install the AMD Radeon driver at install as Nobara did. Very impressed !!
The Plasma desktop is also impressive with Nobara. The system is very fast and I have not experienced one single issue with Nobara at all. The battery life is impressive with Nobara as well as the fact that the cooling fan doesn't run much at all as it did with Mint. The games are also playing well and this laptop is not a designated gaming laptop however it runs games fine. The video quality awesome.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 40
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-29
Votes: 9
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Outstanding technical Fedora 40 implementation with all the Nvidia / gaming configuration done as part of the install process. Runs games beautifully. I was super impressed with the KDE 6.1.1 kernel 6.8xx implementation.
I code (Golang / Python) and game and his Linux implementation hits the requirements for me. Flatpak requirement using Plasma discovery application works great and I prefer flatpaks over snaps.
My hardward is fairly high-end: 4080 I9 13th gen intel with 64 gigabyte of ram. I'm looking forward to the continued improvement in KDE / Wayland and how these improvments will be incorporated ito future Nobara versions.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 40
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-07-22
Votes: 10
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I upgraded from Nobara 39 to 40 and I hat a thin white border when gaming on full screen. It was annoying.
So I reinstalled it completely and everything worked out of the box.
I used the Nvidia ISO and everything just works. All I had to do was install all my games from Steam and I was up and running in an hour.
Distro is very well done and very polished. I fell in love with KDE because of Nobaa, I used Gnome since 2009 as my primary DE. But that all changed with Nobara introducing me to the full KDE experience.
I hope this distro gets more and more love.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 40
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-07-20
Votes: 1
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Sadly my duel Acer multi monitor set up on AMD hardware was too much for Nobara KDE, trying to configure the monitors caused the system to crash completely, and it refused to offer anything but blank screens, I installed another SSD HD with Debian 12, and had no issues at all.
I noted that the initial install of Nobara was far from smooth, with several problems installing updates, the whole install process was tedious compare to other distro using a similar installer. I have used Debian 12 and Fedora 40 on this PC with no issues at all, so it is not a hardware issue, AMD RX 580 graphics, intel i3 9100f and 16 gigs Kingston Ram with an MSI H3DM pro MB..
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-16
Votes: 11
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I have already tried many Linux distributions. I started with Nobara, then tested a few others and ended up with Nobara again. Right from the start, everything I smoked as a gamer runs. Steam and Lutris are already installed and just need to be set up. The latest Nvidia beta driver is also already running and does not have to be installed first, which is not always so easy. So you can get started quickly. So far I have not experienced any problems with KDE and Wayland. For me, Nobara is the best alternative to Windows so far.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-14
Votes: 3
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I've been trying out linux distros for many years, but Nobara impressed me. A big 10 for you, because the only linux that runs Path Of Exile like windows. Note that I don't play on Steam.I used to play a lot (I'm not exactly young anymore...) and I got stuck on this game. Well the problem was to get off windows. I started to learn linux, and tried the distros one after the other. The goal is to run my favorite games the same as on windows.(Now many of you will say hey many linux run games the same as windows) My configuration is : i5 4590 16GB RAM RX550 2GB. On this configuration none of the linux distros could run my game like Nobara. Windows is just a memory.......
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-03
Votes: 3
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I'm giving it a 10/10 because for a gaming distro, it does just that. All of my games work flawless and with no issue. And I didn't even had to change anything.
I installed the offial nvidia image (Since I run an RTX 3060) and it runs smoother than Pop Os. I've been using Pop for a year now, and just switched to Nobara and immediately I notice the desktop runs smoother, the games have 0 issues, same as on Pop and KDE is the default dekstop now, and it's configured perfectly.
I highly encourage people to at least try it.
In the past I tried Nobara 38, and I switched back after a day, but this version is polished. Good job, team Nobara.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 3
Date: 2024-06-01
Votes: 1
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I distro hopped a lot over the last 12 months and finally tried out Nobara because i wanted a proper gaming focused distro for a long time.
My System:
Ryzen 7 7800X3D, RTX 4090, 64GB DDR4 6200.
it looks great... yeah. that's all.
What happened?
Go to their website, download Nobara 39 (NVidia Version).
Balena Etcher, reboot, and boot from the thumbdrive.
"THIS VERSION IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED!" (this stays on your screen for 30 seconds and appears over 3 times over the install)
reached the live enviroment, wiped the drive, and started the installation.
Black screen? i waited for almost 20 minutes and it was stuck frozen with a black screen and i rebooted and tried again.
wiped the drive a second time, the installation finished.
booting up for the first time with the same "no longer supported" message.
logged in, imediately a hard crash and a flashing underscore in the top right corner. for ~30 seconds.
then it came back at the login screen.
logged in a second time and i started the recommended update utility.
it started downloading basically everything over again and patched the distro without further issues.
reboot, logged in... black screen --> log in screen. "PlasmaShell has crashed."
logged in again, downloaded firefox, thunderbird, bitwarden and protonup-qt.
black screen that recovered after 10 seconds. "PlasmaShell has crashed."
wiped the drive again, downloaded nobara again, grabbed a new USB Stick and tried it again.
install, crashes, black screens after every login...
then i checked the settings and enabled VRR on both displays (auto setting)
and guess what. VRR does not work...
changed VRR to "always" and it still has no function. (Monitor stays at max refreshrate in game)
Played CS2 and wondered imediately: why does it run so bad? i have barely 100 FPS at 1440p with minimum settings (for example in W11 i have ~500-800 FPS with the same settings)
it stutters like crazy, runs in two digit framerates and then crashed... followed by "PlasmaShell has crashed."
Nobara with NVidia is basically unuseable and unfunctional.
Nothing works, it is extremely unstable, settings do not work and the KDE 6.05 Implementation is disastrous.
i can not recommend Nobara at all... sadly. because it looks very promising and has basically everything pre set for your gaming rig.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-05-26
Votes: 7
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TL;DR - Nobara is just Fedora pre-built and ready to go with a custom Fysnc kernel made by GloriousEggroll and a faster KDE/MESA/Kernel update cycle. It's a solid, reliable distro and while it's definitely for someone with a gaming rig, it's worth a look as just a daily driver.
Nobara is my first serious attempt to get off Windows, since I have a decently built gaming rig with a Ryzen 5700x, Radeon 7800XT, using two 1440p 170hz monitors. I notice I have much better luck with my games being "Click to Play" than people on other distros (Source:ProtonDB) I also benchmarked Nobara vs a few other distros like Garuda and Cachyos and found Nobara squeezes a few extra FPS out of Cyberpunk 2077 over them which is always important.
The general experience is a solid and ready out-of-the-box Fedora/Plasma 6.0.4 experience, I changed the theme, but only to expand the idea of it. Nobara has had 2 big updates since I installed it and the reliability has remained rock solid, but even then Nobara a timeshift built into grub like Garuda if anything goes wrong, and I made a couple backups myself.
The package manager is just Yumex, but I stick to Discovery for most things since Discovery is solid now in Plasma 6, it seems to prioritize a Nobara made repo for most things (it still has RPM fusion and others), and the system update button seems to just be a script, but it works every time and can be done in Yumex and Discovery also.
This is just a solid performing gaming distro if you have some good hardware, and it's an amazing daily driver overall. I'd recommend it to anyone, gamer or not. I have been over Nobara KDE for a little over a month now, and I love it, while I have Windows on another drive, I have not had one reason to use it.
I wish I could write more, but it "Just works" for me. I always recommend it to PCMR thinking of ditching Windows.
The only thing I wish it has, was more contributors than the current 3, especially with GloriousEggroll being as busy as he is.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-05-24
Votes: 0
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For the gamers it just works i love every aspect of it i didn't get on with the gnome version but kde runs so good on my mini pc its gaming great only used it for 2 months but it helped me leave windows far behind me. im playing Ark with a 780m integrated graphics using this o.s . It picks up all devices (so far) You tube also looks incredible the colours brightness everything is just better
I distro hoped since 2004 but now have found a home. As others have said cant wait for the next release Nobara 40
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-05-07
Votes: 1
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I really like Nobara distro, it does have all I need for gaming and for rest things I'm doing time to time but my main usage is gaming. There is really nothing negative to say about Nobara, I've been distro hopping for years already and so far this is only distro without any negative things to find.
Mainly work of one guy (GloriousEggroll), big respects for his work on this Nobara project and various other projects too such as WineGE builds.
I'm so ready for Nobara 40 release when it comes! :)
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 7
Date: 2024-04-13
Votes: 0
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I gave this one a shot a little while back. It didn't end up sticking around.
So, it's basically Fedora with some extra stuff, which, because it ships wine as a major selling point, means you have x86_64 packages AND their 32-bit equivalents installed. That's a lot of wasted space for my purposes (not a gamer - typically don't need or want wine), and even if you try expunging the 32-bit stuff, you run up against the fact that the Nobara control thing itself needs some 32-bit libraries. That was the tipping point for me.
Nobara seems stable, well put together, etc. but its audience is not me. Probably great for people that use wine and/or multilib stuff a lot.
I like the idea of using Fedora as a base for something better, not that it's bad itself. Fedora makes codecs and non-free a little easier now, so maybe the need isn't there anymore, but it's still nice to see more narrowly focused efforts like Nobara even if they're not up my alley. There are so many Debian/Ubuntu and now Arch based distros that it's always refreshing to see things based on the less plundered Fedora/SUSE/Mandriva rpm side of things.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-04-13
Votes: 6
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This distro is excellent. It was the only one I found that detected my wifi dongle right from the get-go. It has options to auto mount all drives (external and internal NTFS) on boot, automounts USB flash drives when plugged in as well. This needs to be turned on but what a great thing.
The software center has anything and everything you need but the default installed applications pretty much cover everything an average user would need anyway
Runs like a dream and the theme is awesome. Thanks to the team!
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-04-01
Votes: 1
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Really nice incremental improvements since it rolled out. Kudos to the team!
Been trying a few distros implementing Plasma 6 and this is the best so far. Still early, but so far so good and it does a good job of showcasing Plasma 6's improvements.
Great ease-of -setup version of Fedora, with gaming support enabled. Would be my first recommendation for gamers. Other users (like myself) benefit from being able to use it at first boot.
An obvious amount of hard work and attention to detail has gone into this project...mad respect and continued success to the developer(s)!
Very much recommended....Gamers, Fedora users, pretty much anyone.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-03-27
Votes: 2
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After a trip to Fedora 39, there were again minor problems with the Gnome Software Center that could not be fixed and other Gnome peculiarities that got on my nerves. So I went back to Nobara, but this time I chose the main KDE version 39 and not Gnome as before. The installation went smoothly, as usual. However, I was astonished when I upgraded the installation. A whopping 5 GB was required. This took some time, but went smoothly. The printer and scanner were also installed quickly. A look at the system info then showed me why the upgrade was so extensive: the kernel was updated to the latest version, but above all KDE was installed with the new version 6.03. All respect for so much commitment and many thanks.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-03-25
Votes: 0
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My first linux experience has been mostly phenomenal with Nobara. A week after use, I have of course encountered multiple issues, some minor (like inability to access my drives which was fixed by unmounting drives and remounting them) and some major (like inability to login after boot, requiring restarting my sddm)
The OS comes out of the box with wine, OBS, Nvidia drives etc which made it exceptionally easy and straight forward to use. Installation was super easy and the live environment was a good benchmark.
I originally was going to get Linux Mint, but the moment I read about Nobara it stood out exceptionally and I just had to give it a shot before LM, and I'm glad I did. LM would've done just fine though, but Nobara is a better fit for my use case (gaming and content creation focused)
I use Bottles to run games I have installed locally (coming from windows) and most of them run just fine. Lutris refused to launch them though.
Pros:
-Easy to set up and use
-Comes with wine, drivers, etc out of the box
-Amazing performance (beats other distros most of the time afaik)
Cons:
-You thought there were cons? maybe an issue or two but nothing worth mentioning.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-03-02
Votes: 3
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Nobara 39 is one solid distro, I'm discovering. After reading the DW review of 36, then 37 on the same page, I had to try it knowing the Nobara team is very responsive to issues pointed out and published, not to mention bug reports.
The installer moves along as expected and as intuitive as we've seen Calameres on so many distros now. Nothing glitchy or unexpected; just did the job then asked if I wanted to reboot out of the live environment and boot into the installation, which I did.
Everything came up normally and I was presented with a nice, smooth KDE/Gnome desktop (I see what you did there, Nobra devs). Configuring is easy as anyone familiar with KDE will see that all the tweaks and customisations they're used to are there and then some. All of my live tweaks were remembered and were there for me on the first boot of the OS.
It's fast, and it seems to have a smaller footprint than MX Linux has (my main daily driver.. for now, I may change my mind and stick with Nobara as long as no updates break it etc).
I highly recommend Nobara 39 and especially want to see more user feedback about versions passed 37 as it appears the Nobara devs really do listen.
Easy 10 out of 10.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-02-29
Votes: 8
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I tested and used countless distros over the years but Nobara is the only one which automatically enables and correctly sets up fractional scaling for my 3:2 laptop...
Everything else seems to work without issues, everything is automatically nicely setup and configured.
No major issues with full disk encryption and auto-login options during install.
Applying custom sweet theme in KDE is also stable unlike Kubuntu/Ubuntu Studio where it can be glitchy.
All in all great distro - maybe the best one yet in Linux world for everyday use :)
Looking forward to Nobara 40 with KDE 6 and Wine 9
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-02-11
Votes: 1
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Decided to stick with GNOME rather than KDE for this, but overall a pretty stellar experience. Over the past month, I have only run into a small handful of things unrelated to Nobara itself. I did have a situation where the Nobara updater blew out the GUI after an update, but I was able to repair it fairly quickly from the command line.
I’m not really a gamer, more someone who occasionally likes running something on Steam. My goal has been productivity, and on that front I have found the mix of Fedora with a handful of optimizations to be a great fit. (I had been running Debian and Pop!_OS previously, and I felt at home really quickly.) Strikes a good balance for people who want up-to-date drivers but don’t want to deal with Arch.
Highly recommend it.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-02-08
Votes: 0
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It works out of the box.
There are issues that are not actually related to the Nobara project. The good thing is that the Discord community is there for help.
Nobara Linux features a sleek and minimalist user interface that emphasizes ease of use and accessibility.
Despite being a newcomer, Nobara Linux has quickly built a supportive community around its distribution. Users can find help and guidance through online forums, social media channels, and official documentation. The developers are actively engaged with the community, listening to feedback and incorporating suggestions to continually improve the distribution.
The desktop environment, based on KDE, is designed to be intuitive for both new and experienced Linux users. With its clean layout and thoughtful design choices, navigating through the system feels effortless.
I would recommend this distro after a few months with Pop or Mint. Like Linux T. said, Steam really helps this community.
It is a Fedora based distro so if you are distro hopping it is good to know. I am actualy trying to pull people from Windows to this distro
so that they can play games with better FPS in some cases.
The best thing about it is that is has all the drivers one click away.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-01-24
Votes: 0
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I like it. But there's always something...
Just installed Nobara (Gnome) a week or two ago alongside Win 10. Took me about 5 tries to install and still had to fix the Grub thingy myself.
It booted fine with SecureBoot enabled and then refused to boot when I installed nvidia drivers - turns out you have to disable secureboot for that (would be nice to warn people) and I spent another 4 hrs googling.
After that it worked fine, I even installed Steam and tried a game or two. And I was able to install and play WoW Classic. No major problems.
But every time I boot some small things stop randomly working. Today it stopped letting me access my Windows drives. Pretty sure it's not Nobara's fault, but it's getting annoying. So I'm giving a 9 for now.
I've been trying to switch to Linux for a while now and I can tell you there's no "perfect" distro. I think Linux needs like 5-10 more years in the oven. I like Fedora and Nobara is even better.
Probably gonna keep it on my main PC and Manjaro (or other Arch based distro) on my laptop.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 4
Date: 2024-01-15
Votes: 5
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Installation worked just fine, as opposed to mother Fedora. The first three days I enjoyed an awesome KDE desktop, with applications and system tools to my liking. Alas then ..... after a system update the GUI broke, mouse got stuck, no chance to continue work. I was lucky that I reached a console by means of Alt+Ctrl+F6 and could bring the system down orderly. `dmesg` showed a problem with the noveau -driver, the one that works fine for my old Quadro FX 580 video card in every other distro. The graphics card is more than adequate for my usage of 2D apps only.
My guess is that the update of "linux firmware" (a ~ 250 MB download!) is the culprit. Once again I came to the conclusion that I have become too old for distros that throw half a GB of updates at my machine every few days, which have not gone thru proper QA.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-01-07
Votes: 2
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My quest for a suitable Linux distribution led me on a journey that started with RedHat and Fedora, but technical hurdles led me to discover Nobara Linux, a creation of Thomas Cridler, also known as GloriusEggroll, a software maintenance engineer at RedHat.
What immediately stands out in Nobara is its attractive and user-friendly graphical interface. The KDE environment, despite my expectations of GNOME, is presented elegantly and functionally. Graphic settings and wallpapers are visually stunning, creating a positive initial experience.
The installation, though slightly slow, is quite straightforward, and the distribution takes up 39.80GB, which may seem a bit tight for some. However, for initial tests, it was sufficient. The distribution proves efficient for non-technical users, allowing easy access without the need for deep Linux knowledge.
Nobara positions itself as a solid choice for specific users, such as gamers and streamers. It comes pre-installed with essential tools like Wine, Steam, and a platform for cloud gaming. This greatly facilitates compatibility with games, a factor that is often problematic in other distributions.
However, some areas need improvement. The system's weight, while lower than that of Windows, could still be optimized. Additionally, I noticed that the cursor had visual issues, which could be attributed to the live version or resource limitations, but it's an aspect to improve.
The ability to drag windows to occupy the entire screen or half is a lovely feature, as is the ability to install packages with a simple command. This makes life easier for those unfamiliar with the command line.
The creator of Nobara, Thomas Cridler, showcases his software development expertise by offering a distribution designed to simplify basic tasks and maximize compatibility with games. Although some areas can be improved, such as the cursor and system weight, Nobara Linux deserves a solid 9 for its innovative approach and the overall positive experience it provides for specific users.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-02
Votes: 1
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Creative and eye-friendly logo, I hope that someday it will be displayed during booting by default.
It has very useful script-program for updating installed software, including Flatpaks; it also has a cool Nobara Package Manager.
It's not bloated with unwanted applications.
The NVIDIA Drivers Wizard is useful during [reinstallation] of them.
You can see the enthusiasm of the team working on the project, and each new revision is a joy to see.
Nobara + GNOME is such a great combination!
For me, the best distribution.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-01-01
Votes: 2
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After distrohopping a tonne to get a usable daily driver for playing video games, nobara has been a godsend.
"it just works" has never been a more true statement than with this distro. Ive used V37,V38 and now V39 with an NVIDIA 2080 Super and its been such a seamless experience. Ive had no major complaints, although the upgrade process could be more automated but thats a minor complaint really.
I am a big fan of their tweaks to gnome when it was the default, and I love the GE proton updated that they have by default.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-12-31
Votes: 1
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After struggling to get the EA App working in Lutris on Ubuntu, Mint and Pop!_OS, I was blown away by how seamlessly it launched in Nobara. No extra tweaks or packages needed – it just worked beautifully. I'm still getting used to the KDE Plasma desktop feels surprisingly polished and customizable. It's taking some adjustment, but the abundance of features and customization options is already winning me over.
Currently running Nobara on my aging HP Laptop and it's surprisingly smooth. I'm seriously considering giving it a try on my main gaming rig as a potential Windows replacement. If you're a gamer frustrated with compatibility issues in other distros, Nobara is definitely worth checking out.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-12-30
Votes: 2
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Tried Nobara 39 after frustration with NVIDIA support under Fedora. Under Fedora 39, even with rpmfusion NVIDIA driver, modern games often did not start or had visual problems.
Nobara installation was simple and worked as expected. The defaults for just about everything seem logical. Getting up and running to the point that things work well was super easy.
Not only did every game start and display correctly, Nobara seemed to give a big performance boost.
I generally prefer Gnome, but KDE probably works better as a desktop environment for gaming. Valve chose KDE for the Steamdeck, so Nobara switching to KDE makes sense.
Nobara just needs a bigger user base.
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-12-29
Votes: 2
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A distro that I eventually would love to see make it's way to the top of distrowatch, and it appears to be on it's way there. I came to Nobara from Arch because I heard of how well it has integrated with Steam and it's ability to play most of the games I love to play, and I was not disappointment in the least. It seems to play all of the games in my steam library with ease. Not only that, but it has all the ins and outs anyone would need and everything just works. It's stable and reliable and is suited for both power users who love the command line and for the new to Linux users who would just prefer to never open the shell. It comes with flatpaks enabled and ready to go, giving you the option to install whatever you may need. It's just an all around great and user friendly OS. I hope it sticks around for years to come. Flawless!!
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-12-28
Votes: 2
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As a person who tests Linux Distro's for years . I found the December 2023 ver of Nobara KDE, quite difficult to understand why this was released as is.
It does install, but the updater hangs with unrecoverable errors of conflicting packages. I had tested the Nobara Gnome version 8 months ago without issue.
I would... as a developer Re-test this KDE version a little better for final release with several hardware units, to get a handle on this. As a side note your boot screen could use a little modernization also.
Regards Robert,
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Project: Nobara Project
Version: 39
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-12-28
Votes: 5
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Running a triple OS boot, Win 11/10 and Nobara I increasingly use Nobara as the daily driver now. Primary reason to move away from Microsoft is big privacy concerns with Windows and I always wanted Linux to just work for gaming (for many many years), this is now becoming a realistic proposition.
To my surprise it has ran every game I have thrown at it, and the new Karting Superstars runs a lot smoother than Windows even with similar FPS. Quake2 RTX - no problemo. CyberPunk RTX, yes no issues. All games I tried ran the same or better than Windows.
The inbuilt openRGB is great to get my (tasteful!) lighting setup easily.
The only slight aww moment I had was when I realized I could not set DSR in Nvidia options, though I read this is common elsewhere in Linux (compared to Windows). I have a 4090 GPU but like to play older games using DSR at around 8K resolution specifically, but I cannot do this it seems as I can go no higher than the desktop resolution, or at least general instructions I found on the web didnt seem to work.
I also upgraded from v.38 to 39 using the homepage instructions, completed with no issues.
My setup is
2x ultrawide 3840x1600 (intel i7 14k IGPU is powering one of these)
nvidia 4090
64gb 7200mhz DDR5
If the authors keep specifically pushing this for gamers and concentrate there, add in more bells and whistles to cater directly, I think this will be the number one linux choice, without a doubt. I wish it had more visibility.
Suggestions:
Add e.g emulators, retroarch, dolphin, etc
EA/GOG/EPIC\xbox cloud compatibility out the box and on the desktop ready to roll.
Add in benchmarking programs for CPU/GPU
Add in overclocking programs for CPU/GPU
Fan and temperature integration
Virtual reality - make the 'Virtual Desktop' number1 app on Quest compatible somehow? Further VR compatibility will really take this places.
Make the desktop customization next level, gamers love that :)
Overall a brilliant OS which has easily replaced all other Linux flavours for me and is putting Windows firmly in the shade.
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