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.
I mean, base Fedora probably is more stable.
Playing games requires an lot of extra stuff, and the kernal is more bleeding edge in nobara to keep those GPU updates (if AMD) and performance tweaks fresh and useful.
but generally speaking from my experience, Nobara is no more or less stable than anything else, windows or linux. And any issue I did rarely had was typically resolved with a reboot, and generally from a game.
You guys might have talked me into Nobora actually.
I’ve not been someone who’s favored stability over new tech and performance on Windows, so why should I on Linux?
Also, like others have said, changing the Distro if I hate it isn’t exactly the end of the world anyways.
The main issue with nobara is that it’s handled by a single person. Almost everything you get on nobara you can get with a few commands on the terminal in fedora; and whatever patches they have under the hood will at best get a marginal performance boost and at worst cause major crashes and issues.
Nobara is a solid choice for people that don’t like to tweak their system too much because it comes with everything you need to play games from the get-go. If you’re more of a power user there’s very little reason to pick it over fedora or arch.
That’s the reason I was considering Fedora instead. But I just installed Nobara, so I’ll see how it goes.
I’m VERY curious about Arch, but I’ll stay on this distro for a little bit(I think)
Well Arch is great at what it does: getting you the latest packages of everything without needing to upgrade every 6 months or whatever; that does come at the cost of a bit less stability. There’s EndeavourOS if you’re uncomfortable installing from the console.