Apologies for the garbled pictures :( Found out about it after the upload was complete. Please excuse me, I'm on a very tight schedule IRL and didn't get the time to re-export the video.
It was premiere pro at fault. I added a photo of Lutris in my video, it wasn't the actual app. And after I rendered/exported the video, I saw the picture was totally messed up.
Nobara also provides a guide on how add a "Steam Deck" game mode to your PC, so you can have a game console experience for running your Steam Games, additionally using your game controller to navigate through your game's library, change settings and access overlays, exactly like on a Steam Deck. Many of games certified as compatible with the Steam Deck appear to render better when running in game mode compared to desktop mode. Nobara 39 initially boots into desktop mode, and then there is a desktop shortcut to take you game mode. You switch back to desktop mode via game mode's power menu, as per Steam Deck. You can also configure Nobara to boot directly into game mode if you prefer.
Honestly the jump to wayland is good as it seems to be streamlining stuff for linux... Even in your comments people complain that they cant optimise, run etc. on linux and its true the problem is when launching a game becomes a chore and takes HOURS to make it run and kills the fun while you could have clicked and played for hours on windows without any issues. This is why I think this jump to wayland and using it instead old X11 for everyone to develop is a fantastic move! If people would stop making 1000 package managers as well that would be great :D... Just use one streamline it make it work better together!
The official is a modified KDE version. It's a little themed. The custom theme is different from the default theme. Apart from that, I don't think there's any major difference. The other two come with stock GNOME and KDE desktop environments. If you don't know what they are, think of them like different user interfaces. KDE looks like Windows and GNOME looks like Mac OS, and I'm highly simplifying here.
i switch to nobara 39 linux now for 4 m solid using it. the installing games with lutris is so much like windows just saying it makes it very easy for a simple windows user to use
I decided to check out this distro. After installing, the system would freeze very frequently for around 30 seconds. I decided to try to upgrade to the newest version to see if this would fix things. That didn't work either, as one of the download sources would just time out, apparently making it impossible to complete the upgrade. I've looked around for solutions, didn't find any. I did however see a comment stating that "Nobara doesn't work with Nvida GPUs". There seemed to be some disagreement on this, but I can see no other reason as to why my system would freeze up as it did. I've since run both Garuda and Mint without any issues. So yeah, this hobbyist distro does seem to carry some caveats with it. Hopefully some of these problems will be fixed in the future.
Does anyone know how this compares to Pop! OS in terms of raw gaming performance? I can't seem to find a straightforward answer. I'm not interested in which one has a nicer desktop environment or anything, just potential fps in game.
This will have a better gaming experience out of the box. You can tweak pop os to achieve the exact same results tho. Having said this, the "better" performance might be small in nature.
running a 12700k 3070 and is running well on most games for me at the moment, however i get more consistent fps it seems on kubuntu than on nobara (apex kubuntu 240 cap no dipping, nobara will dip)
You can either go to steamdb dot info and manually search; or you can just download steam, change it to big picture mode (gamepad UI) and beside each game, it should show you. Over 13,000 games are now verified to run well on Linux.
Ive tried Nobara 39 as my first daily driver Linux (only ever used linux cli only on servers at work, definetly the goat and so much better than windows server) and I gotta say im a little disappointed at how wonky and unstable everything is still, with an Nvidia card (3060 ti). I know its mostly Nvidias fault for not at all wanting to cooperate with linux. It still sucks. Using Plasma KDE is kind of fun, but in the couple of hours I tried it, it was wonky to say the least. - Every few minutes, something in the DE would break, causing it to not respond at all anymore, not update parts of its ui its supposed to and other issues. It was so bad, I had to write a custom function to reload the entire DE cleanly. - Every other second I had graphical glitches, as in artifacts - Resolution looked overall worse than windows - Sometimes, it straight up wouldnt boot until I powered it off and on again - A lot of my hardware straight up isnt supported (specific roccat devices that arent covered by roccat-tools, a corsair headset I cannot configure with Icue) - No matter what I tried, wether trough GUI, CLI or a combination of both, I couldnt get my existing ntfs gaming partition to mount with exec rights, even applying different kinds of workarounds, it just wouldnt do it I would love to use linux as daily driver, but man this hasnt been a good first experience. Maybe ill come back to it in a year or two. As a server OS, I wouldnt ever choose anything else though :P
You would have to be using an AMD GPU, on a gamescope session playing an HDR capable game on a capable display. For exact specifics please ask around in reddit since I'm not 100% sure.
I'm really looking forward to HDR on Linux. If that is done, this could really replace windows for me. At the moment HDR on linux is not working 'out of the box yet', but it won't take long I recon. Let's see if that trick with gamescope could work ...
Honestly the only thing preventing me from full time linux is Maya, I honestly hate maya but for some reason its the industry standard for modeling in my industry, and im in school for 3d animation so i cant just use blender instead, atleast not while im at school
I swear there used to be a way to install Maya on Linux. No idea if it's the newest version with all of the features, but it used to work. Honestly I moved away from it unless I'm using a customers desktop.
@@RoboJo-pq8pj i actually managed to get it to work, but Arnold renderer is broken after I had to reinstall it. It refuses to reinstall it because it thinks it's still there from the last install, I tried removing the whole directory but it persists so I'll just have to boot into Windows until I reset my nobara install
Apologies for the garbled pictures :(
Found out about it after the upload was complete.
Please excuse me, I'm on a very tight schedule IRL and didn't get the time to re-export the video.
the pictures were hilarious and made me laugh. its no big deal.
@nexus3756 😅 okay, thanks
Just out of curiosity... Wtf caused that bug?
It was premiere pro at fault. I added a photo of Lutris in my video, it wasn't the actual app. And after I rendered/exported the video, I saw the picture was totally messed up.
@@GsMultiverse Unlucky
Nobara also provides a guide on how add a "Steam Deck" game mode to your PC, so you can have a game console experience for running your Steam Games, additionally using your game controller to navigate through your game's library, change settings and access overlays, exactly like on a Steam Deck. Many of games certified as compatible with the Steam Deck appear to render better when running in game mode compared to desktop mode. Nobara 39 initially boots into desktop mode, and then there is a desktop shortcut to take you game mode. You switch back to desktop mode via game mode's power menu, as per Steam Deck. You can also configure Nobara to boot directly into game mode if you prefer.
Thanks for the extremely important tip
Interesting choice for Chromium. As far as I know, video hardware decoding for Nvidia only works with the Firefox vaapi patch.
Honestly the jump to wayland is good as it seems to be streamlining stuff for linux... Even in your comments people complain that they cant optimise, run etc. on linux and its true the problem is when launching a game becomes a chore and takes HOURS to make it run and kills the fun while you could have clicked and played for hours on windows without any issues.
This is why I think this jump to wayland and using it instead old X11 for everyone to develop is a fantastic move!
If people would stop making 1000 package managers as well that would be great :D... Just use one streamline it make it work better together!
Synaptic is pretty good with Debian based systems or in this case rpm fusion with some repos added
Nobara 39 KDE what a great job over all
IKR! The theming is fantastic as well :) The wallpapers are drop dead gorgeous
do you happen to know the difference between official, gnome and kde versions?
The official is a modified KDE version. It's a little themed. The custom theme is different from the default theme. Apart from that, I don't think there's any major difference. The other two come with stock GNOME and KDE desktop environments.
If you don't know what they are, think of them like different user interfaces. KDE looks like Windows and GNOME looks like Mac OS, and I'm highly simplifying here.
@@GsMultiverse Thanks man, highly appreciate your help.
i switch to nobara 39 linux now for 4 m solid using it. the installing games with lutris is so much like windows just saying it makes it very easy for a simple windows user to use
I always hate the grouping kde does with the apps i nthe start menu, still have not found a way to get rid of it.
On kde I always use the Andromeda launcher
Use it since Version 37, but the new 39 is realy Great. I almost play Apex Legends and it runs fantastic
That's great to hear bud!
is it running smoothly? last month i tried garudaos but when playing apex it is always compiling shader ingame and cause it stutter so bad
I decided to check out this distro. After installing, the system would freeze very frequently for around 30 seconds. I decided to try to upgrade to the newest version to see if this would fix things. That didn't work either, as one of the download sources would just time out, apparently making it impossible to complete the upgrade.
I've looked around for solutions, didn't find any. I did however see a comment stating that "Nobara doesn't work with Nvida GPUs". There seemed to be some disagreement on this, but I can see no other reason as to why my system would freeze up as it did. I've since run both Garuda and Mint without any issues.
So yeah, this hobbyist distro does seem to carry some caveats with it. Hopefully some of these problems will be fixed in the future.
Life's too short to deal with caveats. Just use what works. I use Pop OS and it's flawless.
Is gtk4 theming preconfigured?
Does anyone know how this compares to Pop! OS in terms of raw gaming performance? I can't seem to find a straightforward answer. I'm not interested in which one has a nicer desktop environment or anything, just potential fps in game.
This will have a better gaming experience out of the box. You can tweak pop os to achieve the exact same results tho.
Having said this, the "better" performance might be small in nature.
i cant get nvidia drivers to install
also mangohud won’t work on lutris , even if I run a game in lutris through steam mangohud won’t work
wayland is broken on 37 using nvidia, is working now with nvidia?
running a 12700k 3070 and is running well on most games for me at the moment, however i get more consistent fps it seems on kubuntu than on nobara (apex kubuntu 240 cap no dipping, nobara will dip)
I'm thinking of trying this for gaming. Anyone know if there is a way to check which games from my steam library are supported on steam for Linux?
You can either go to steamdb dot info and manually search; or you can just download steam, change it to big picture mode (gamepad UI) and beside each game, it should show you.
Over 13,000 games are now verified to run well on Linux.
Ive tried Nobara 39 as my first daily driver Linux (only ever used linux cli only on servers at work, definetly the goat and so much better than windows server) and I gotta say im a little disappointed at how wonky and unstable everything is still, with an Nvidia card (3060 ti). I know its mostly Nvidias fault for not at all wanting to cooperate with linux. It still sucks.
Using Plasma KDE is kind of fun, but in the couple of hours I tried it, it was wonky to say the least.
- Every few minutes, something in the DE would break, causing it to not respond at all anymore, not update parts of its ui its supposed to and other issues. It was so bad, I had to write a custom function to reload the entire DE cleanly.
- Every other second I had graphical glitches, as in artifacts
- Resolution looked overall worse than windows
- Sometimes, it straight up wouldnt boot until I powered it off and on again
- A lot of my hardware straight up isnt supported (specific roccat devices that arent covered by roccat-tools, a corsair headset I cannot configure with Icue)
- No matter what I tried, wether trough GUI, CLI or a combination of both, I couldnt get my existing ntfs gaming partition to mount with exec rights, even applying different kinds of workarounds, it just wouldnt do it
I would love to use linux as daily driver, but man this hasnt been a good first experience. Maybe ill come back to it in a year or two.
As a server OS, I wouldnt ever choose anything else though :P
Use Pop OS. Worked the best for me.
I read a lot about PopOS. I will give it a try. But I doubt I will find solutions for my missing hardware supoort :(@@GsMultiverse
I downloaded Mint and all the updates, and its a complete trainwreck. But, can I download this and overwrite mint?
You can overwrite with a fresh install of another OS, yes
@@GsMultiverse Thankyou
The first time i see somebody say that on Mint updates, It works out of the box in many times I installed that distro. Weird
how do i enable hdr in games
You would have to be using an AMD GPU, on a gamescope session playing an HDR capable game on a capable display. For exact specifics please ask around in reddit since I'm not 100% sure.
@@GsMultiverse I am using 6700xt + nobara 39
Or wait until it is supported out of the box. That will be in 2024 most likely.
What the hell is going on with Lutris at 1:45? Not really a good look.
EDIT: And Protonup-Qt at 2:20 is messed up too.
I already have a comment apologizing for that :)
I'm really looking forward to HDR on Linux. If that is done, this could really replace windows for me. At the moment HDR on linux is not working 'out of the box yet', but it won't take long I recon.
Let's see if that trick with gamescope could work ...
And VRR and Ray Tracing and HDR on Wayland ..
Honestly the only thing preventing me from full time linux is Maya, I honestly hate maya but for some reason its the industry standard for modeling in my industry, and im in school for 3d animation so i cant just use blender instead, atleast not while im at school
I swear there used to be a way to install Maya on Linux. No idea if it's the newest version with all of the features, but it used to work. Honestly I moved away from it unless I'm using a customers desktop.
@@RoboJo-pq8pj i actually managed to get it to work, but Arnold renderer is broken after I had to reinstall it. It refuses to reinstall it because it thinks it's still there from the last install, I tried removing the whole directory but it persists so I'll just have to boot into Windows until I reset my nobara install
That crash at the end is the real Linux experience. LiNuX rUnS bEtTeR oN oLd HaRdWaRe
iT wAs rUnNinG iNsiDe a VM.
What crash? I can't see it.
Nobara 39 KDE what a great job over all
Agreed!