I ended up with Nobara

As some of you already know I’ve been playing around on a small partition with Linux Mint. Learned basic troubleshooting and fixed some driver issues.

Now I’m very impressed with how it runs and decided to daily Linux and keep Windows for things Linux can’t do. Currently installing Windows on a new small SSD as we speak. (240Gb for the OS plus it’s gonna get a 500GB NTFS partition on my 2TB gaming drive)

This brings me to my question. Which Distro? I’ve narrowed it down to keep using Mint or Fedora KDE Plasma 41. Mint is something I’ve already screwed around with and there’s loads of guides online about it.

But Fedora seems like a better for for me. I’m not afraid of tinkering at all. But as long as I came game and daily it for browsing, emails etc. without too much issues, I’m good.

What’s the consensus? Setting it up tonight after my new W11 install is up and running.

    • swab148@lemm.eeEnglish
      81·
      3 days ago

      Nobara is not immutable, which is a plus for some people. I’d use it over Bazzite because I like the ability to fix things that break rather than just rolling back to an older image and hoping that the next update unfucks whatever the maintainers broke in the last update, but some people are fine with that process, so for them there is Bazzite.

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        Bazzite has never broke for me. One of the advantages of atomic immutable distros is that there’s no rush to push a new image. Either the whole image is updated when it already works, or it doesn’t get shipped. None of the issues of pushing a single package update without testing that later turns out to be incompatible with a different package update.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          6·
          3 days ago

          Yeah exactly. Worst case, I reboot my system and it’s fine again lol.

          I see people sometimes try to act like immutable is only for newbies or people who don’t like tinkering, and it’s just not true.

          It’s beginner-friendly, sure. But you’re really not that limited in what you can do, you just need to learn the different ways that they’re done on immutable (rpm-ostree for example).

          There is a slight learning curve, but after a few months, I really grew to like the entire concept of immutable and atomic. I’m not sure I would ever go back to Arch (if I want anything from AUR I just start up my Arch distrobox).

        • swab148@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          I have had broken updates pushed on my system with Bazzite, and the fact that I couldn’t do anything about it just rubbed me the wrong way. That’s just me though, some people are fine with rolling back to an older image, no hate lol

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      I have never used bazzite to give you an honest answer to that.

      all I can say is that I was distro hopping for a good while after running into roadblocks on ubuntu, and Nobara is just where everything clicked into place with usability, and ease of gaming.