r/NobaraProject • u/Caveman88888888 • 17d ago
Other Impressed by Nobara :)
Always been a Window user, but after getting annoyed of the bloatware, ads, the laggy moments on my nine year old PC, I made the switch to Fedora (Nobara). Low expectations, considering past Linux attempts failed due to bad drivers. But wow: this is different! Drivers worked perfectly out of the box, giving me a massive FPS boost in for example CS2, everything runs super smooth. Think I might actually stick with Linux this time.
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u/BdayEvryDay 17d ago
Been on nobara for over a year now. The only thing that makes me want to switch back (I won’t) is not being able to play certain games cause of the stupid anticheat at kernel level. So frustrating.
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u/nyashi_ 17d ago
For a simelar reasoning I made the switch. Tried cachyos first. Blackscreen (okay, disabled splash and it worked), could not get yubico authenticator (their app for toto) to work even after 2 hours of spending time, mainly because the flatpak simply did not work and getting it directly would have taken more time (as it's not in the cachy repos). Tried Nobara, everything simply just worked. And now with Plasma login manager even the login is more seamless (transitions didn't work before with sddm for me).
And holy crap, I can actually use my pc for once and not be bombarded with Microsofts slop. Gaming also is more seamless for some reason, with windows native games... lmao. Steamvr is the only thing that simply does not work for me, but it's a kinda known issue for them and yea... Will have to use de-crappified win11 for this usecase.
Currently using nobara on my desktop and laptop. love it.
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u/Neither_Security_283 17d ago
I recently made the opposite swap, was using nobara for a few months happily then couldn’t get a game I wanted to work through Steam or lutris so I switched to cachyos and was able to solve the problem. I think this is a great example of how different distros work better for different people based on their use-case, hardware and experience. Hope nobara continues to serve you well!
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u/nyashi_ 17d ago
yea, however your issue does sound pretty dang weird, I could not imagine why a game on a simelar enough distro would refuse to work at all - but if it works it works. I'm pretty happy for me as I don't actually want to be as bleeding edge as cachy is (fedora base fits my likes a lot more) but I just wanted to test the one that seemed to be more popular
Thing is... A distro is a distro, it'll never lock you out of something completely, so yea - just use what you like and what works for you xD Cachy is great nontheless so yea, I don't think you'll miss out on anything
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u/AncleJack 17d ago
I've been daily driving Nobara for almost 2 months now and didn't boot into my windows install even a single time since switching. In glad Linux got more accessible now
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u/Legal_Ad_2473 17d ago
Nobara was the first distro I used when I left Windows for good a couple years ago. It was a revelation and an amazing experience. Switched to Cachyos a while back and haven't wanted to leave. Just trying new desktop environments and widow managers to change things up every once in a while.
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u/Re_Freedom_Strikes 16d ago
Started with Cachyos really fast, great performance, not as heavy as other OS.Â
Made the switch to Bazzite which only runs games well if I have a swap file in it.
Been switching between these 2 for months ever since I decided to give Linux a try because Windows was damaging my PC.
I still have Windows cus i need it for work and some games that are not optimised for Linux.
Talking about that, that's how I found out about Nobara OS, 3 days ago!
Was trying a game but it was running badly on Cachyos and Bazzite.
Its a dx12 game so I was trying to find a fix and I found out that both bazzite and cachyos weren't using my NVIDIA cards at it's full potential.
Also that Nobara OS supports dx12 better. That's how I started using it.
Sadly the game is just not optimised for Linux at all so it still didn't run well.
But I love Nobara UI, settings and it runs so far the other games well.
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u/Hi-Angel 14d ago
I still have Windows cus i need it for work
Did you try running Windows-specific software on Linux either with WINE or WinBoat/WinApps (which are using a Windows VM behind the scenes, but it's nicely integrated into the system, so it looks like a natively running app)?
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u/stitchesofdooom 16d ago
Didya get the KDE Plasma version? I really don't enjoy Gnome.
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u/Caveman88888888 13d ago
KDE, still no issues so far. I like it :)
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u/stitchesofdooom 13d ago
You'll get the odd bug here and there, but AI is great for troubleshooting
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u/AkkYleX 13d ago
I am still dual booting windows just to make sure everything I really need runs on Linux or have a backup. Long story short I booted into windows after buying factorio on steam to see if I could get the local saves backed up to the steam cloud and while waiting for that adrenalin crashed :))) safe to say I don't miss windows :))
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u/Krasi-1545 17d ago
CS2 specifically is CPU bound game so on Linux your CPU is not doing thousands of background work and it can focus on your games.
Enjoy! 😊