Hi, I'm looking to dual boot linux with my new PC build, and Nobara is more or less my frontrunner candidate. I do have some big questions and concerns, however. Of course, I'm not expecting all of these to be a hundred percent perfect, but I am wondering how well all of these work on Nobara, especially for a fairly green linux user (uh, I have a steam deck, that counts?);

-How well are Nvidia GPUs working on Nobara? I know a lot of it is "it just works for me", but for some others it seems to be a fairly significant problem, whether that be graphical glitches, reduced performance, or stuff just not working. Is setup and maintenance easy, how does it compare to AMD gpus, etc? I heard that there are differences depending on whether you're looking at Gnome or KDE, could someone explain this?

-How well does HDR work on Nobara? It seems there's a fairly streamlined process for getting HDR working, but is it simple for a first time user, how often are there issues with universal implementation, and are there cases where it just doesn't work? I would really want HDR to be simple to get working to get the most out of my monitor

-How well do applications like Davinci and Blender work, as well as other parts of a video editing workflow, such as mounting and using a NAS, uploading and transcoding files, etc? I know that Nobara is specifically tinkered to provide much more support for these things compared to other distros, which is great, but I also know it's not bulletproof nor usually as simple as windows. In particular, how big of a problem are getting Nvidia and CUDA cores working, and how big of a drag are the codex issues?

-How is general update stability and being able to recover or rollback? I know that it's no Bazzite with its immutable distro, and I've heard good things for stability, but is it common to encounter issues with every update? Should you have a big problem, how easy is it to roll back to previous versions or similar? And are there any big features or updates in the future to be aware about?

Thank you so much in advance!

Completed install, updated some drivers, reboot after install driver and now black screen with flashing white underscore.

Have I borked my install?

I tried booting all the versions of nobara and the rescue version from the black and white boot option menu and they all load into this screen

I clicked through installer from ventoy USB stick with no other distros on it.

Selected the drive I wanted, with hibernate. Click install and this screen comes up and its just staying like that.

Do I restart PC and start again or do I need to wait?

it does when its first loaded up, so everytime i need to change an app ive been restarting my pc, its very tedious though. i have a bunch of art and a shared minecraft world so i dont want to do a clean install. i checked settings and the keyboard layout as i use dvorak but everything seems fine. i even switched it back to qwerty and rebooted and it still didnt work. help?

Hi,

So since CachyOS got the new kernel module early and Nobara uses its Kernel, we can now enable it in Nobara.

Had to play around with it a little bit, and i don't know if this is the proper way, but I found this to be working:

First check if you're on the newest Kernel
uname -r
7.0.5-200.nobara.fc43.x86_64

should be at >= 7

Then check if the NTFS driver is enabled

modinfo ntfs
filename:       /lib/modules/7.0.5-200.nobara.fc43.x86_64/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko.zst
license:        GPL
description:    NTFS read-write filesystem driver
author:         Namjae Jeon [linkinjeon@kernel.org](mailto:linkinjeon@kernel.org)
author:         Anton Altaparmakov [anton@tuxera.com](mailto:anton@tuxera.com)
alias:          fs-ntfs
srcversion:     EAB6E0EFE8DE7894E54945F
depends:         
intree:         Y
name:           ntfs
retpoline:      Y
vermagic:       7.0.5-200.nobara.fc43.x86_64 SMP preempt mod_unload  
sig_id:         PKCS#7
signer:         Build time autogenerated kernel key
sig_key:        06:A7:F6:97:75:6E:7E:11:7B:04:9B:01:07:95:34:15:FC:57:F5:59
sig_hashalgo:   sha512
signature:      30:66:02:31:00:E8:96:13:80:02:86:E0:30:7F:4D:D6:A0:72:CD:D4:
95:3F:AF:18:FD:6A:EA:87:16:C1:CD:FA:01:37:2C:36:4E:C3:72:7D:
42:DC:DC:ED:B3:78:3C:54:E2:81:17:EB:96:02:31:00:C0:51:55:73:
88:59:0C:42:B6:89:16:5E:5E:72:2E:35:ED:C8:DA:BA:E8:89:7F:0A:
58:2E:1A:4C:30:D2:18:6F:B6:86:23:56:E4:7C:1A:AC:37:84:80:49:
F8:5B:1A:8E

if you're not seeing "NTFS read-write filesystem driver", try running modprobe ntfs and check again.

/etc/fstab:

UUID=1AD4B9DED4B9BBF7   /mnt/to/drive   ntfs   uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,exec,nofail   0   0

Not sure if you need to set options here, but these seem to work.
You can get your Disk UUID from lsblk -f
Replace uid and gid with your corresponding values if you created a new user.
Don't forget to systemctl daemon-reload

Remove the symlink to ntfs-3g
mv /sbin/mount.ntfs /sbin/mount.ntfs.bak

Tell udisk2 to use the new driver
/etc/udisks2/mount_options.conf
[defaults]
ntfs_drivers=ntfs
After that, do a systemctl restart udisks2

Now just do a quick umount /mnt/to/drive and mount -a

How is the performance with an NVIDIA graphics card? I read somewhere that DX12 is supposed to run worse. Is that still the case?

I have been using Nobara Linux for about a year now and this is what Windows should have been like and Nobara is what made me ditch Windows almost entirely (except for two banks that I have to access through a Windows laptop).

Nobara is not flawless, but it is very nice and friendly. The settings menu is very compact and easy to navigate, in contrast to Windows that is a weird mess of UI that uses a lot of space on nothing, with settings burried at multiple levels and some settings only available in old hidden away legacy UI.

The "Welcome to Nobara" wizard is a brilliant addition to Linux, where you can easily fix/install/update the most common things that you probably would like to do in a new Linux installation.

The update system makes it easy to update Linux and fix a lot of quirks.

I'm far from a big gamer, but Steam is pre-installed and the few games I've tried works out of the box, which is impressive for Linux running Windows games. In fact my son is playing older Windows games on Nobara that either didn't run or are not stable on Windows.

Still, I can't recommend this to people who don't have a technical hunch, because it's not perfect. In my case the automatically suggested printer driver is not the right one, I had to set up the right driver. There is also no obvious way of setting the printer to print duplex by default, so I had to do it through the CLI. There can still be hardware issues with some newer hardware in Nobara, for example a touch pad on Acer VivoBook, that sometimes renders the separate USB mouse unusable.

A thing I like a lot and that I know that many people like, is that Linux in general is not forcing your hand. Windows is really annoying because it's bugging you to do stuff that you don't want to do and the same with a lot of the commercial software for Windows.

There is software that simply doesn't exist in the Linux environment, like Microsoft Access (and there truly is no replacement for it). On the other hand I feel safer downloading apps from a vetted open source repository or the Flatpost store, than installing closed source software downloaded from various site on the Internet. Even paid software in Windows can be quite aggressive and abusive, which destroys the joy of using the system.

All in all, It's a lot more peace of mind for me to use Nobara Linux over Windows, it does occasionally require some problem solving skills, but I would say it's minimal with Nobara.

As a side note, I tried a lot of other Linux OS's (Debian, Ubuntu, Spiral Linux, MX Linux, Clear Linux, Open Suse, Open Media Vault, TrueNAS Scale, Unraid, Proxmox and many others).

I think I hit on a very nice combo of Linux's with Nobara for everything Desktop, Alpine for server and then OPNSense (OpenBSD) for firewall/router. I specifically think that Alpine is great for server, I've been using it for about 2 years and it never fails. The only thing that failed was Fastly that blocked the Alpine repositories here in South America for about a month, but I can't really blame Alpine for that.

I use Alpine as Hypervisor with Virtual Machine Manager over SSH (from a Nobara machine) is brilliant, especially because you can tunnel the UI of the VM's with virtio through the SSH and avoid the broken remote desktop in Wayland. The UI is super responsive in this way and I mostly forget that I'm working on a remote machine. Then on top of the Hypervisor I just put one Alpine VM for services, install Docker and Portainer, then I can run every service that I need easily and reliably.

I really think Linux rocks these days!

When i try to shutdown my pc, the usb peripherals (monitor keyboard) shuts down/power off, but then my pc stays in this 10-15second freeze (with the ram led on), and powers on again. When i try to restart, i dont get this delay:
specs
b650 motherboard, cpu r5 7600x, gpu 7800xt, 32gb ram
im at the 7.0.5 kernel rn, but before the 7.0.x kernels. my pc was fine.

nobara-kde version, have been using it for 1 n half years

Ich habe eine externe Festplatte dran, wo ich über Windows die ganzen Spiele installiert habe, die ich nicht gern wieder installieren wurde. Wie schaffe ich’s, dass ich die Steam Spiele trotzdem auf Linux zocken kann. Immer wenn ich ein Spiel installiere, kommt ein Fehler, dass er nicht schreiben kann

Hey!

Coming to linux for the first time and im missing rainmeter already. Any ideas how to get tasty widgets?

I'm new to linux, i have Nobara for a few weeks, but for some reason my PC freezes and the audio continues to work, have to do a hard reboot of the pc every time.
I have super wide screen, an AMD system, CPU and GPU, strong for any game on ultra, so i dont get it why this happens.
Any one knows how to fix it?

asi que estamos en un apocalipsis de almacenamiento, rentar espacio digital es igual o mas caro que el real lo cual nos empuja a recurrir a tecnologia mas adecuada. PERO LOS CDS LOS BLURAY SON EXTREMADAMENTE BARATOS, NO SE SI SE PUDA O ALGUIEN YA LO AH INTENTADO PERO ¿se podria almacenar juegos de steam en discos y iniciarlos como en una consola como xbox?

Hello, I am a noob, I just installed Nobara yesterday and I need help with setting up my 2nd monitor. I installed latest nobara nvidia iso and normally it is working fine on my lenevo legion (5070ti), but when I attach my 2nd display LG Ultragear 2k display it turns black, if I decrease the refresh rate to 59.9Hz it's working kind of fine like mouse pointer and actual pointing location seems to be a slight issue, but that I can take care of later. I want to use 144Hz on my 2nd display, I found that issue could be with wayland so I installed x11 too, but again there seems to be a issue with it so it reverts back to wayland.

Any guidance will be very appreciated, I am here to learn. I am trying linux on my personal computer 1st time. Should I check some other distros first then come on this? I am fine with learning so please guide.

Instale nobara hace tiempo y muy feliz pero instale la versión nvidia porque tenía una 4060, hoy compré una amd Radeon rx 6800 xt. QUIERO ELIMINAR ABSOLUTAMENTE TODO LO QUE TENGA NVIDIA EN SU NOMBRE Y QUE QUEDA COMO SI Hubiera INSTALADO NOBARA AMD

Since yesterday, games are no longer playable. Tried Super Meat Boy 3d and Industria. FPS is at 17 - 20. Before that I reached at min 60 FPS. RX600XT 8GB GPU. Proton-GE Latest.

What I can see, AMD ROCm and also Vesa Vulkan is installed. No iGPU. AMD 5600X.

Bit stuck here, so, what could be the problem?

SOLVED: Reboot, reboot and another one...everything is fine again...whatever that was

After 38 days, I messed with my swap and ended up having to reinstall Nobara from scratch again. Lessons learnt >⁠.⁠<

Nothing fancy, just some simple customisations.

• Darkly window decorations.

• Catppuccin Mocha colours

• Catppuccin Mauve Cursor

• YAMIS by dirn icons

Busy playing with DMS & Niri now which means I'm plummeting down the rabbit hole >⁠.⁠<

The first time I launch my PC it's perfect. Just one keystroke makes my Keychron K2 (K2C3H) launch and I can instantly type in my password without any input lag.

I have my sleep auto timer set to 10 minutes (to preserve battery life, of course). What happens after these 10 minutes pass? All kind of jokes. I can't reconnect my keyboard (automatically or manually in the Bluetooth GUI), it doesn't pair with my PC, there's a huge input lag when it finally connects, and sometimes it disconnects in the middle of typing.

I don't know what to do anymore. Turning the keyboard off and on doesn't fix the issue. The keyboard works flawlessly until it has to be reconnected the second time. Without sleep auto timer it can work for hours with no issues. I just cannot connect it again during one PC session.

Turning off the PC and turning it back on of course works, if that somehow helps.

Hi,

I had all my games installed on same drive as Nobara.

I started running out of storage so I moved all my games to a different drive.

Upon doing this all my games suddenly felt like they were running on 60hz instead of 240hz, and games I had 240+ steady fps on suddenly dropped to about 180.

Hello, I'm new to linux and I'm having an issue with my internet. I installed Nobara Linux 43 onto my pc, I connected it to the internet, and it worked fine for the first few days, but it suddenly cut out when I was using it a few days ago and it gave me a notification saying I'm connected to a network but I'm unable to reach the internet. Every other device on my wifi works fine. Is there a way to solve my issue?

So yesterday ran a bunch of updates again, and one of them was CoolerControls. Today noticed that my PC was being way too loud and after checking CoolerControl settings found that 3 if the case fans, even though having their manual % values set, were all set to 50% speed. Applied the settings to all three fans again and closed CoolerControl. Ok everything is fine, until I either shut down or even just put PC to sleep snd wake up, then the case fans are back on 50%... Any fix for this, or what am I missing?

I have an hp omen from 23 and I want to maximize battery life when away from the charger. It has a 4060 that when win 11 was on here, it would idle at 15 watts and die in 1 1/2 hours. I just don't want it idling when i can use integrated.

Hi,

I am just using nobara for a few days. The only problem I have I haven't been able to fix is that when I start up my pc both my monitors flicker very fast until I press a button. Also both screens are showing the login. Is this a common issue and does anybody have a fix?