I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I cannot afford to buy games and bottles is a God send at that. Now I realized that I had not logged into my windows partition in over 6 months. So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows( I have a 512 gb ssd so it was a lot) and today after everything was setup, the os took only around 20gb minus the games. Never felt happier.

  • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    I would advise against Nobara. Why?

    • Only one maintainer. If he quits the project, it will leave many many users without maintenance updates
    • Slow updates. Maintaining a distro is a lot of work, and especially major updates can take many many months.
    • Very insecure. It disables SELinux for example.
    • Many tweaks that might make the OS less reliable.
    • And much more… I absolutely respect GE’s work, but for one person, it’s just impossible/ hard to keep it secure and well working.

    What else would I recommend? Bazzite (if you use your PC only for gaming) or the various other images from universal-blue.org

    Why?

    • They also come with QoL changes by default, just like Nobara
    • They are actually secure because they maintain themselves automatically without any input. If a update comes from Fedora, it takes less than a few hours to also land on uBlue
    • It’s reproducible. Every Bazzite install for example is the exact same. If one user has a bug due to a modification from Bazzite, the dev will have it too and can just fix it easily.
    • And much more.
    • Yerbouti@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      Well it works perfectly to me. I dont need updates every 24h , I just wants all codecs preinstalled for Davinci and Reaper, and games to work out of the box, and I get all that with Nobara. If the dev abandon it I’ll switch to something else but its currently up to date with fedora and well maintained.