FINALLY! the perfect Linux Distro
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I think I can finally stop distro-hopping. Norbara get Fedora and just
makes it even better. For my hardware it works perfectly and this is the
first time I had no reason to try something new. In this video we will
talk about what this distro is, some of the modifications I've made and
highlight my experiences with it.
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Nobara Linux: nobaraproject.org/
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00:00 - Introduction
02:12 - Fedora on Steroids
04:34 - GNOME Customization
06:05 - My Apps/Workflow
07:17 - BEST Gaming Distro
11:36 - GUI Package Manager
13:04 - Closing Thoughts
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Nobara for those curious since it wasn't in the title!
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ILY!!!!!
Jujutsu Kaisen
@cas curse its at the top for me..
@cas curse algo felt embarrassed by ur callout and gave up :D
Thanks for the kind words on your review! I'm glad your experience has been well! As for the package manager bits -- the two main reasons we switched to yumex-dnf + bauh instead of the normal software centers is for two main reasons: 1. i wanted to show a specific split difference between flatpaks and normal packages so that new users dont confuse the two, and 2. I found that at least with gnome-software it does not install 32 bit versions of packages (which are needed for things like wine or nvidia drivers). While the default software centers still remain for installation unfortunately people aren't keen on the defaults so we may switch back. Apart from that the distro has really reached a pretty good stable point. This year in general Nobara has gone through a lot of changes, I'm hoping now that most of the major kinks are worked out we'll have a solid release when 37 is ready.
Awesome thanks for the reply and clearing some of this up. We all appreciate it and all the work you do. Some fantastic stuff! Looking forward to future releases and watching everything grow and develop.
yo can you make a xfce variant of nobara?
would be cool if it was a bit more lighter
Congrats on your work.
Thank you for the great job GE, you rock!
Do you think you could build a Debian based version? I’m currently running Debian, and it’ll be easier to switch from Debian to a Debian based distro instead of Debian to a Fedora based distro.
I love linux reviewers. "Finally, the perfect distro to never disrto hop again... Until I make a new video a month from now saying this again about a completely different distro!" It's the true mark of a UA-cam linux user!
lol there's some truth to that.
>be tech channel reviewing a linux distro
>absolutely no mention of how the terminal is, and/or if there's any cool utils that come with this specific distro
>shows it's good for gaming
Yeah, he probably would've been better off with macOS but then you can't flex about being linux user 😂
@@Anon_581 it's on the mac os theme 😂
Ой, да ладно тебе, ахаахх, время меняется, на определённый промежуток времени свой "лучший дистрибутив". Всё тоже самое и с играми, то один шутер является лучшим для группы людей, они играют в него, то уходят в другой шутер, где больше механик, лучше поддержка, тут как бы ничего плохого нет.
I agree. Also they forgot to say, perfect for whom.
what a time to be alive. I remember back when I was on Linux as my default machine struggling to get 1 or 2 games running. now you can build a gaming rig and use Linux as your. main OA and have enourmous game availability. I ordered a steam deck out of enthusiasm and I have been shocked at compatibility and that I could just switch to desktop a d. e running Linux. I've been using windows/macOS for the last few years. I think I may need to go into Linux again.
Indeed, I still remember spending a considerable amount of time reading about Linux OS and fiddling with its distros in the early-to-mid 2000s, but gaming compatibility issues alone eventually kept me just on Windows, even though I knew Linux distros could easily satisfy like 80% of my general PC computer needs.
And to be fair, it's only now with Valve pushing its Arch based Steam OS 3.0 with its Proton compatibility layer that the idea of finally being able to do (Windows) gaming and general PC tasks on just 1 Linux distro is something that could very soon be a viable and widespread option...
Absolutely)) When I had seen Linux for the first time back in early 2000s it had just 2 playable 3D games: Quake 2 and Shogo Mobile Division.
This is the type of thing that Microsoft is trying to prevent. Once people realize that Linux runs as good and better than windows, they'll start losing market cap.
You can run almost every windows program on Linux without much hassle, and the programs run BETTER
Gems running? I remember back in the time how happy I was when I managed to get X-Window working with resolution... 320x200 and 16 colours :) Good old times...
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Looks like you have some problems with temperatures on your laptop. You have gpu usage less then 90% (in some cases much less), low fps and cpu temperature close to 100. So, looks like fps cpu limited and cpu have some throttling issue. Or is it because of streaming?
@@andreik6855 It only get's cooking like that when recording. It's using the GPU to encode at 1440p. For a laptop it's doing alright.
I was just coming here to let you know! I hope you get it fixed up, but well done for getting this video listenable nonetheless
@@TechHut what's the name of the laptop
Nobara is absolutely awesome. While I use Manjaro as my daily driver for work or entertainment. I have this distro installed in my gaming/video editing rig, the work done by GE really shows!
So this Nobara system could work better for gaming than Manjaro? I've tried to play SCUM, but the avg. FPS sucks! 10-12
@@alro7779 In theory it should but it's best to check Proton compatibility and try to run in on a VM or live to test. I managed to improve Monster Hunter World by switching to experimental and enabling Dx12, I have heard that for Scum you need to use an old Proton build 6.21-GE-2 but there's no multiplayer bc of the anti-cheat.
I play mostly osu so that patched XWaxland seems really interesting. I have to play in x11 to get uncapped FPS.
@@crashniels hmm i used wayland session on osu its so smooth but my cursor is kinda slow in game kinda odd
Ay yo this guy uses archlinux☠️
"I am done distro-hopping" -TechHut, 2022
Pshh we'll see 😏
Void is the only distro that did that for me
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When a distro pops up a legal disclaimer before I download it I feel like tossing it out of the window.
I see nothing weird, frankly. Many aspects of the Linux world are legally grey or comparatively legally unusual, such as codecs or lack of warranty. Nobara goes against many legal decisions that Fedora made and every single notice in that EULA is perfectly reasonable, some of them are even nothing out of the ordinary. If anything, I appreciate the transparency because they're not even admitting to anything bad in that EULA, just pointing out some things to help people avoid misusing the distro to their disservice (like putting Nobara into prod).
A really nice review: delivered with great depth and good humour. Your pleasure with the distribution was palpable. It sounds like a fantastic distro, and one that I'll definitely give a try. I'm not a gamer, but I do want a solid, easy-to-use distro that looks good, and lets me be productive.
I was also an EndeavourOS user but switched to Fedora with cinnamon de for stability. This setting is the best for me after using several linux distro. But Nobara is luring me to distro hop again!
Looks like one I need to try!! Thanks so much for the great video and information!
thank you!
really find this one perfect, everything works as clock. great work Nobara team
I've been using Nobara for the past few weeks on a very similar laptop and the experience has been great! Performance and stability is better than on PopOS.
_the perfect Linux Distro_ - well... I'd Rather go with what Anthony Young from LTT said:
Since Linux is so configurable and unlike Windows or Mac is not locked down it doesn't matter what distro you choose because you can change everything you want on any system. You end up picking a distro as base that is closest to your needs and configure it to your liking.
You can literally install a program that runs windows apps. That's nowhere near crazy
Yes you can do anything. If you're a huge nerd who thinks education sites and tutorials are too low level.
These different distros add better GPU support or compatibility features with different APIs or hardwares.
It's quite misleading when people say "you can change everything". That's like saying everyone can program an engine or "anyone can cook".
Not everything can be added or changed so easily. Especially things that take entire companies and dedicated communities to just make sure it works. Try making Wine from scratch.
Your channel is fantastic, and thank you for another amazing video.
I heard great things about it so I tried it out for a while. After about a week I started missing Void and decided to return home to it. But Nobara was nice.
I'm glad you found something you really like. I think it's cool Fedora is getting some derivative distro love.
Fedora 36 kde 😍
Wow! Really excited to try this!
Good stuff Sir. Thank you.
There are so many really nice distros being developed out there" BigLinux is incredible, Storm, Ultramarine, and now Nobara. Awesome.
For newcomers, people not wanting to learn Linux in depth or someone who just want to go at it without all the hassles is great, I used fedora for half a year and was a great experience but I'm back to arch based
Wow! Its freaking fast! Awesome!
Nice one! Thank you.. ❤️
I've installed Nobara KDE on a laptop and got graphical package manager that was not that great honestly, but the new one you showed and I got installed on the desktop I really dislike a lot more. Never tried changing it, this'll be the first. Other than that, it's been pretty darn good so far.
Isn't that just KDE diskover?
@@DMSBrian24 no, it's the same thing he showed on Gnome
Yea they removed the default app centers and added this extremely ugly package manager that looks like we have gone back to 2008. Its so ugly and slow, I can't believe how could it be shipped like this to users and thinking it was "ready". I really hate this change and would love for them to go back to original app centers, that make the distro feel more modern
As smooth and responsive as this distro looks I've gotten used to my RebornOS install (thanks Brandon for your video on it!), so I don't see myself swapping to anything else any time soon... I had been using Ubuntu, Gentoo, Funtoo, Void, and finally now RebornOS. Cool showcase though!
Thanks for the video, I'll try this distro!!! I've liked.
I am going to give it a try, thanks for the info
I'm much more of an EndeavourOS fan but I've kept an eye on Nobara since GE first introduced it. I even used some stuff from his Nobara COPR when I was on Fedora and really enjoyed it. Nobara is definitely the next distro I'll hop to when I feel like using something else!
I came from Endeavour to it for my main machine. I'm probably strange saying this but I prefer pacman and yay to what it has. But that said, it does seem more stable, after I dealt with some opening installation issues. Endeavour wasn't bad stability wise but I had some random gtk issue a few months ago where certain apps wouldn't load child windows. That did auto-correct with new packages a few days later, but I had no idea how to resolve it while it was going on. I just had to not use those apps.
Cool name.
@@Korodarn I use Garuda, another Arch derivative. While I use KDE daily, this is why I always have Gnome installed. Just in case when any KDE app mess up (although probably fixed a few days later), I can use its Gnome counterparts for the time being.
It's so damn good, I can record right out of the box, smoothly cos it comes with the gstreamer plugin preinstalled. No other distro lets me record this smooth, out of the box, cos of OBS's awful ffmpeg vaapi implementation.
oooh, I'm going to try It!!!
thanks so much
im sold
Hmmm. I've been using fedora since they forked from RH. I just did a full custom install of 36 last weekend, and specifically ignored nobara because it said gaming focused. I'm pretty happy with xcfe, and after 20 years I've got the nvidia thing down, at least i tell myself that. Sans gaming, it looks like a nicely tightened up fedora based experience for desktop users. That said, crying over akmods, nouveau, Wayland, and X11 is like a right of passage to say you use fedora.
Nobara is good if you have hardware that needs specific kernel patches. (Like some controllers.) But for most people, you won’t need those and you’d be better off using Fedora because Nobara breaks important security features like SELinux and Secure Boot because of those patches.
Nobara does not "break" SELinux. It's shipped in passive mode which means it logs everything but does not block anything. You can easily set it to enabled/disabled/passive in /etc/selinux/config + reboot, and can view all of the logs in setroubleshootd. As for secureboot you would have the same problem with any other customized kernel, which most people commonly do anyway while gaming (zen, liquorix). People seem to really like fear mongering on SELinux because they don't know anything about it or how it works.
@@GloriousEggroll Thanks for clearing this out. Was a bit confused about the SELinux stuff there for a momoent. Also, is secure boot really that necessary on a personal computer that sits at home?
I set Selinux config in enforcing mode, right after fresh install of this great distro. And unless you have Nvidia GPU, secure boot option should not disturb you. Everything works fine, max FPS a little bit higher than on other distros, and lower fps is much better.I`m using KDE version and Nvidia drivers from repository breaks my Wayland session, so i installed it manually, directly from nvidia official site.
@@GloriousEggroll Ah. That's what I figured. I'll make sure to have a look at the RH article.
@@GloriousEggroll that's the thing. I don't consider a gaming rig a throw away machine. I think such things need to be communicated clearly, we fail very much at it in the Linux community.
We can't have at the same time the message that Linux is more secure bla bla and at the same time lowering barriers because we want to run some non upstreamed patches.
This is exactly why I would never play something like valorant that installs a kernel anti cheat on windows... That's just crazy.
Most people run a multi usage machine, the ones that actually run custom kernels are a minority of a minority. They are Linux users that want something very specific.
So I appreciate the work that you're doing, but I wouldn't run a machine with such changes (specially laptops). Even though, yes, I agree, we can live fine without secure boot and without selinux.
I find it absolutely disgusting that we have to go to MS to get the bootloader signed... It should be an open foundation. But that's a different talk...
There's much work to be done on that front.
Thanks for the blog post, but nothing new under the sun.
Hopefully more and more OEM's will start using coreboot instead of UEFI, one can dream...
Tk U for sharing, will give this distro a try.. I am currently using Deepin Linux
I Love all your videos on linux distros, and i love them, i am currently running pop-os i am gonna try this out looks cool.
I am glad you like this distro. However it does not appeal to me as use Debian Tesing and EndeavourOS. It is great that there are so many interesting Linux distros to use to fit ones needs.
This is great. The definitive gaming distro. I'm tired of stock distros, you need to make a lot of changes (some too advanced to regular users) to get games work and get good FPS in them. I think that the only thing I need to modify in this distro is disabling the meltdown and spectre patches, to get better CPU power, IDC for the risk, I want power XD.
Glorious Eggroll is a f*cking legend, that a good job!
Amen!
Не, как по мне, интересней самому копаться в этом, и самому модифицировать стоковый дистрибутив под свои нужды. Всё таки, самому создать идеальный дистрибутив для самого себя проще, чем кому-то для тебя.
Thanks!
it looks so clean
I played around with it, and its pretty cool... I'll stick with normal Fedora though and do what I want. I didn't really see any compelling reason to stick with Nobara, and I am worried about where it might be (not maintained?) in a few years.
you know, you MIGHT be able to find a script to just get all the stuff Nobara has. or you can manually just get all the stuff that GE made for it. OR….. you might be able to simply ask him if there’s a script or something or if he can make one… food for thought
Does Fedora have working sound drivers? The other distros only work with my headphones, but not internal speakers
@@cmtangoe9569 There could be issues with Linux and sound drivers, but that would vary by exact hardware. I am told the speakers and headphone work on my laptop just fine by those who have used it, but I cannot tell you for certain how good it is myself as I am deaf... but I know they worked in Manjaro and Garuda and Arch as well.
Gnome is an acquired taste. I like it enough, but the lack of decent fractional display scaling makes it a no no for my 4k monitor.
Thanks. I just installed it and I like it.
MAn you are going to 200K subs. wow! We were here almost less than 5k :)
Keep it up man!
I see what you did there with the Nobara Wallpaper from Jujutsu Kaisen, you won me there 🥰🔥🙏♥ I'm going to give it a shot because I mean, it is Fedora based, so quality is guaranteed!
When I tried it out, the installer for the KDE flavor of Nobara crashed before coming to an end. I cannot recommend a distro that seems to depend (more or less) upon a single person.
I like your desktop setup. Any place you have mentioned the steps and the settings to achieve that, will be really appreciated.
Thanks Osman
Brilliant vid as always matey cheers!
Defo gonna try
One thing I'd like is a guide to replicate Nobara's tweaks on other distros. I run endeavourOS myself, better community than arch without constantly breaking things with partial updates like Manjaro (The AUR is perfect for me as frankly I don't want to use flatpaks as I heavily disagree with how flathub is pushing online accounts) but I also like to play games, so knowing what specific kernel tweaks were added, how to replicate them (or if you can) etc. would be really nice.
(I should add that I'm talking about manjaro breaking things, and I know some people are just fine with it, but I've heard pretty consistently it does NOT play well with the AUR, and I have a lot of niche programs that are only avaliable from the AUR, like my VPN's client software, my VLAN client, (yes I know that's just a VPN too but lets be honest, if I say VPN you don't think hamachi, you think nord) etc. are all AUR only, so I just can't reasonably use Manjaro personally. I'm sure for some people it's fine, but it just breaks just the wrong things for me. So simmer down youtube comments, if you use it, good for you, it just wouldn't work for me)
The tweaks are on the nobara site. No idea how up to date they are though
I have tried everything from Manjaro, Fedora, Suse, Red Hat, etc. So far the most stable and fast I have found is Mint. How does this compare to Mint in terms of performance?
Great video, I was wondering about nobara. I just installed fedora 36-gnome and it's great. I would love to have a performance comparison between the 2. Maybe the next video? :D
wait
is this distro actually named after nobara from jjk??
thats epic
I personally love and use Zorin os 16 Pro. It's debian based and is so far extremely simple, user friendly asf and hasn't failed on me yet
I have personally converted many "common man" Windows users with zorin and have been showered with praise. All older hardware users and now FORMER Windows users. I love Manjaro but Zorin is my convert go to.
Its not Debian based, its Ubuntu based and there is a difference. I know that Ubuntu is based on Debian but enough has change they are not 100% compatible. Zorin is a good distro though, if you are a fan of the Ubuntu based ones, that and Pop!_OS are the only two I would really run.
I thought Zorin was Ubuntu based? Unless they changed that extremely recently it is Ubuntu based. Yes, Ubuntu derived from Debian back in the day, but generally we consider Ubuntu different than Debain for a host of reasons that Debian simply does not follow at all. So it is important to make those distinctions.
I like Zorin myself, but find myself using Fedora with my own tweaks (as I would tweak any distro). Just works for me and I used to hate Gnome, but Fedora 35/36 just changed the game for me. Just solid with much more up to date packages especially if you're rocking newer gear and/or do any development like myself. Have had little issue at all out the box.
I like Zorin's nice desktop options and ofc it is probably as close as you're gonna get to a Windows clone out the box. I especially love how easy they make it on beginners coming from Windows. This is why I originally bought Pro and donated as I liked them making it easy on folks like that and supported their work. Bravo to each!
Since you use an Nvidia Laptop, I have a question. My main problem with my Linux gaming setup on a laptop is multi-monitors. When I'm at home I use a 27" monitor and a 58" TV with no laptop display. Nvidia-Optimus is a real pain with this type of usage. Do you think I would have a better experience with this distro?
Nice I want to try making my own extensions
Looks nice. Am still on Manjaro, thinking of hopping but haven't been motivated enough to yet.
As someone who's dipped into Linux a couple times with a dual boot in about 15 years and very quickly switched back. Even though I'm computer savvy, I want something I can instal and have almost noooothing else to have to do to make things work, no pain in the ass mission to install packages and repo's just to get a graphics card working etc. Something that just works. Embrace the consumer, maybe this is the one.
I'm with you on this. :)
I had Nobara running for roughly a week before swapping back out to Manjaro.
Issues with mouse buttons / refresh rate - SELinux alerts + an issue within the first week with GPU Drivers becoming corrupt (Failing to login to Wayland and failing back to Noveau, X11 working OK)
Good base but, again, there's still stuff to work on - I don't think it is "Perfect".
I have it on a lot of different hardware, not 1 problem yet. What are you installing it on ???
Great review.. distro looks awesome... I'm an old Debian neckbeard but I love how desktop Linux has progressed.
Thank you for the Fall Guys tip. I happened to be trying to figure that out today, and now it's working thanks to you.
I recently switched from Windows to Linux and my first destro is Mint. I've been learning many things and experimenting with it since. I think Mint is a good start off for new Linux users to acclimate to Linux.
I am finna switch in october I think I'm finna go with mint also
@Sharkie alright
@Sharkie the icons look a little excessive
@Sharkie yeah ok I'll try it
For me, a perfect distro would be something stable as Debian, regularly updated like Arch, lightweight like XFCE or Mate, most of daily needs workable with GUI like Manjaro or Ubuntu, not excluding any of packages like flatpak, snap, appimage... And pretty, like Endeavour OS, but still not cluttered, like Elementary OS
Wait, are there any distros that don't work with appimages?
That achievement is a little way off as of yet, no doubt collective hacks will get us there. Till then keep trying!!
@@denis.96 Newest Ubuntu did not work because of missing Fuselib required for launching AppImages.
Seems like an interesting distro to check, will have to find some free time to test it out...
Never heard of it. I will soon install this on a test machine and hope it is as good or better than MX Linux, of which I am tremendously satisfied. The support for Windows apps is fantastic on MX. Thanks for this review.
My problem with linux is that you can’t download things and just open the program, I’m all for open source but the heavy reliance on the terminal and the inability to simply open a program without having to watching a video on it is the biggest thing holding me back.
thats the fun thing, you dont have that need! the terminal just is the most efficient way if we think about it from another perspective: if you know right what you want, you can just throw the install command (in the case of nobara sudo dnf install PACKAGE) and its done. the nice part is that it does come with a software store, so you technically never really have to touch the terminal.
honestly, default Kubuntu is great. I've had zero issues with it. Everything just, works for me. Normally windows will generally have fewer problems them Linux. But I've had genuinely no problems running anything i want on Kubuntu with ease. KDE for life.
If you like Kubuntu you might enjoy KDE neon
Wow amazing
Finally! I knew this video was coming when I saw Nobara was a client in your Pi-hole server. Nobara is amazing! I've been using Nobara on my main machine for the last couple months. I can't even believe the FPS gains its given me. I always hated Fedora, but Nobara solves almost everything I didn't like out of the box. The only thing I miss from Manjaro is my AUR.
Why did you hate Fedora?
I was curious if anyone here knew a proton version that makes Halo Infinite work well/perfectly? I’ve tried Experimental and some different GE versions and there are many errors with textures loading and many slowdown issues as well.
Damn, can you run halo infinite on Linux :O?
@@mastermaster153 Yeah, you can. You rename the videos folder in the game files and use GE version of Proton, but there are many texture glitches, maps and everything loads slowly, and there are many visual slowdowns. It’s definitely not a pleasant experience, sadly.
What a coincidence, I have downloaded nobara & am thinking of testing it.
But I have a few concerns,
About the dev:
1. Isn't nobara maintained by a single developer?
2. Since the dev is involved in other projects & this distro is he going to keep supporting it in the long run or burn out?
About the OS security:
Since gaming is the sole priority & the OS has a many changes & bunch of proprietary programs.
1. How fast are updates added compared to fedora WS?
2. More importantly how fast are security patches & bug fixes updated, especially system updates?
3. How do the gaming oriented kernel changes affect security? Do they make the security model weaker?, decrease the hardening?
4. Don't the bundled proprietary software increase the attack surface?
5. Does it have the same secure boot support that fedora has?
My main concerns are longterm support, reliability, security & privacy because Nobara OS really solves my gaming, customisation & usability needs.
It's really just a tweaked version of Fedora. All the main updates and security patches come from Fedora repositories. When you click down on the website there is a good disclaimer talking about what to expect from the system.
In terms of security, SELinux is set to permissive mode by default which isn't particularly great if you care about security (it doesn't block anything, it only logs suspicious stuff to some file somewhere but we all know 99% of users using the distro will never read it). You can change it back to enforcing manually though.
Wow, that Linux Dunning-Kruger effect is nuts, lol. So accurate. Nobara is my distro of choice for my laptop, love it so far 😊
been using Fedora for a decade now, this is interesting refreshing stuff. thanks
I love my pop_OS, it got me to finally love, appreciate, and know linux more. However, this looks good enough to take for a spin... I'll give it a shot.
I’m in the same boat. Idk if I can leave Pop though.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: it's a hobby distro, expect it to leave. Just go with Fedora and make the changes you want. It's the same thing. I never recommend hobby distros, they only ever disappoint in the end.
Exactly this. Nobara is a hobby fork of Fedora with 1 maintainer and some extremely questionable and downright wrong choices/tweaks, and even breaks things such as secure boot because it uses a custom kernel which isn't signed, and they have disabled SELinux, and improperly configured dnf. Just get Fedora and set it up how you want it. I know who GloriousEggroll is. Doesn't mean that he can make a distro.
@@MyAmazingUsername I learned how to use wine. I don't think I've ever had to use ge versions of that software. I trust proton to continue because it's backed by a company developing it.
There needs to be a better way of providing user experiences without making a new distro. Some kind of software that profiles your system and allows custom improvements and options for software, kernels, etc. And it needs to be simple with advanced options, detecting your distro and distributing different developer's customization scripts.
Fedora is corporation distro, never use any corporation stuff. Use Arch or Monjaro.
@@user-nn5kx9gy3z no, those are way too iffy. Rolling release as a core philosophy is great for developers but terrible for people who need to have their software running and not breaking because of an update.
Fedora being created by billion dollar corporations (IBM and RedHat) is exactly why it is so good and stable. Most of the good stuff on Linux exists thanks to corporations. Sorry to burst your bubble, but almost all Linux kernel development is done by corporations. Over 80% of all kernel code is written by for-profit corporations. Almost all good, powerful Linux technologies and projects are created by and funded by corporations. Everything from filesystems to audio systems and everything in between. Even Linus Torvalds himself works for corporations to maintain Linux. You owe your entire existence on Linux thanks to corporations. That is exactly why I use Fedora. Because they have the developers and funds to polish that distro. It is pretty much perfect.
That's pretty nice looking config for Gnome desktop!
looks like im switching distros next week!
I tried nobara, but using the automatic install of nvidia drivers didnt work. In fact it bricked the install. So I tried risi. Out if the box, I like it way more but Ill have to see if it holds longterm since the main dev is just 16. Aldo, the only thing I played by now is csgo which works perfectly.
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Sorry if its not working for you I'm running a AMD rx 6700xt card with the distro so that makes it easy.... My friend has an Nvidia card and I'm setting it up on his PC. The Nvidia is temporary and then I'm switching him to a navi budget GPU
Hopefully Nvidia works at the moment... I use it now.. I used to use fedora 36 and switched over really quick. Hope you can get it to work as it's totally worth it for gameing
What Nvidia card? Nobara doesn't support some of the legacy drivers so if it needs a legacy driver it likely won't work.
For better or for worse, Ubuntu has been the perfect distro ever since the very first version back in 2004. However times have changed and for the past decade I have installed Ubuntu server followed by i3 Window Manager and followed by apps. Today most of my apps are all flatpak based except for a few critical apps that only have snap or appimage versions. This means when next I upgrade, I can literally install virtually any linux as a base OS with all my same apps on top of it and I can safely delay upgrading for some time since my primary apps are updated irrespective of the libraries of the underlying OS. All that I know for sure as that next time around it will not be Ubuntu but probably a rolling Debian release and it will have to be biased towards QT and not Gnome/GTK.
Thanks Bradon, based on your recommendation, I installed Nobara and it does indeed resolve / address nearly every complaint / aggravation vanilla Fedora has. Please review Nobara 37 (released a few days ago).
i've distro hopped since 2019 and this january finally settled on endeavour os and slapped kde on it. Could not be happier
Personally I've settled on Endeavor because of the amount of packages available and the rolling releases
Honestly, Ubuntu started going down the hill back in 2008 when netbooks were everywhere, and they made the decision that nobody needs an actual desktop environment anymore..
Optimising the distro specifically for netbooks, making it really hard to use on a regular computer.. In the beginning they even made it extra hard to undo their "optimisations"
Nobara, that's a mouthful. Nice. Anything that's based on Fedora would be great.
I love GE's work and the passion with which he moves forward his projects. With that said, I don't intend to try Nobara... ever. Stock Fedora is already not that much work to get gaming and work running for most people. Of course I wish some things were on by default (like RPMFusion repositories), but Nobara is a use case distro. It has lots of ideas that inspired me to configure things in my system (e.g. the COPR for gaming tools like gamescope and others; obs-vkcapture). However, I do wish that most of the things done in Nobara were not necessary ("Getting rid of the need for the usecase Linux distribution" lays the premise for that) and users were able to just install the software they need with ease (without much gatekeeping from Fedora) and kernel tinkering was non-existent.
You'll get better frame rates with nobara. Surely that's worth it alone? The exact same hardware can give you a higher average fps.
Honestly, most of the changes Nobara made should've been under the hood. Give us stock GNOME. I don't need 10 extra extensions or preinstalled gaming apps.
Another worry I have is if GE gets hit by a bus, who will take over development.
@@iamv0id202 I mean, there's stock GNOME and KDE downloads on the same page. I personally use the stock GNOME one version.
@@hachi7658Ah, didn't realize GE provided stock GNOME downloads.
Now all that's left is hoping GE isn't hit by a bus.
Thx, i try the Nobara Linux now. I hope like my old PC.
Glad you found a distro you like. I find a little funny that you had to basically re-do the GUI to like it. haha But that is the beauty of Linux.
Great video and I am hoping to performing similar tweaks in my Debian build. Did you say Nobrara at the intro? lol
I realized the type of person you are when you said “dirty corners” with the taskbar thing on the bottom. I get you and will be trying this OS on something to play with it soon.
I found my new happy place in Nobara!
Good video
You can try `rounded-window-corners` extension to get uniform rounded corners everywhere, it's pretty cool
Perfect distro?! Wow Finally an Endeavor OS review Gonna ad to my watch later keep up the quality videos
And I thought Ultramarine Linux is a great Fedora Spin. Thank you very much for this review, I gonna take a closer look for this in the near future since I really dig Fedora (and Gnome),
The fact glorious egg roll maintains this was a bombshell for me.
The best distro has been here for a long time, Gentoo
Awesome review video, imo maybe suitable it's more fit because it's depend at user, hardware and what the user needed, perfect are more subjective so it can be different for each user/person.
Been using Nobara for quite a few weeks now. Think I will be sticking with it long term. Don't think I could have done so without setting up BTRFS and Timeshift, its gotten me out of trouble a couple of times.
Yeah, and u have giude on YT by Stephen's Tech Talks on how to set up Timeshift with BTRFS snapshots. But I think and it is my suggestion to GE to implement that by default as a system restore unit. Or fork BTRFS Assistant created by Garuda Team. It will save much time and give safety to users if something goes wrong. And that will complete this project in my opinnion. This need to be done by all other distros if they want to atract users on their side, not to push them away.
Looks nice, still my customized Manjaro KDE Plasma is just on a different level for me :p that's the beauty of Linux
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this distro. Would love to see your thoughts on MX Linux.
It’s okay to feel that why. I felt like that sowhat at the beginning. Just use the love you have for making soft to overpower that feeling