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by FirmwareBurner 1038 days ago
On the topic of GE, anyone try his custom Fedora distro, Nobara[1] and has any feedback on it?

Is it daily-drivable on a laptop without any issues, and stable long term without any breakages? Not just for gaming, but for daily entertainment and productivity task of those with one distro for everything?

I tried installing it a while back and found the default installer partitioning much more janky and messed up GRUB making my system unbootable, unlike other "Just Works™" distros like Ubuntu, EndevourOS or Mint where they worked flawless on multi-boot systems.

I'm not knocking it, I can imagine it's tough for a single developer to do all that and test everything, it would just be cool to know if it's gotten some polish now and how stable it is to daily drive.

[1] https://nobaraproject.org/
2 comments
johnny22 1038 days ago
I've only heard good things about it, but i see no reason to use it. making fedora do what it does is easy enough.
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FirmwareBurner 1038 days ago
>i see no reason to use it. making fedora do what it does is easy enough

Yes, people working in tech and with free time can do that, but many don't want to go down that rabbit hole anymore and fiddle with their OS to get it to where Nobara is, and would rather go for something that's already preconfigured out of the box for the best gaming experience where everything is already set and you can immediately start installing and playing games after installing the OS, similarly to Windows is. That's the whole point of these distros.

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Glome495 1037 days ago
Then they should be using a simpler distro like mint because an install script doesn't change the fact that it's still Fedora which doesn't target new users.
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slikrick 1038 days ago
"Easy enough" sure, you keep up with all those patches, manually, on your own system, then say it.

This site literally can't not be pretentious

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FirmwareBurner 1038 days ago
>This site literally can't not be pretentious

Infamous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

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johnny22 1038 days ago
most of those things other than the codecs and steam from rpmfusion just aren't necessary for most folks is all.

I'm not trying to shame folks from using an easy route. You read my comment extremely uncharitably.

I do think one should be careful of relying on a project with a bus factor of 1 for your OS.

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oaththrowaway 1038 days ago
I have it installed on my gaming PC. It is fine
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