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I switched over to Nobara Project 4 months ago and am not looking back! Have tried CachyOS, Bazzite, Mint, PopOS and liked Nobara the best
Could you swiftly describe what makes you prefer nobara over the others?
It comes with eveything for gaming and multimedia work pre-install, the 2 thing I use my pc for. Codecs, steam and proton, Da Vinci resolve, etc. Flagship version uses KDE. There's a nice little app manager. Really easy installation process. It's a fedora spin-off so it follows the same release cycle, usually updated within a few days. Updates use to be a bit complicated, breaking drivers, etc. but it's much more stable these days. There's not a huge community, basically discord and reddit, but people do try to help. Usually you can follow the instruction for fedora for any tricky installation. Great distro overall.
Looks like that might be my next try. I haven't had much luck so far :(
From the ones you mentioned i tried PopOS and for me it works pretty fine. Its my first time real gaming pc on linux. Before that i had a little netbook with mint or some other ubuntu os.
For singleplayer games i hadnt any issues. Its mostly multiplayer games that arw broken because of the anticheat not enabling linux and not any other problem with the game itself. Its all out of the box i would say.
Only time i really need terminal is when i play minecraft. Only game thats a little broken. But still made it work even with a huge modpack
I have a lot of drives and nobara comes with a auto mount manager that proved to be very useful. The update manager works great, it by default makes backups with updates to fedora.
It seems they have made the OS extremely user friendly with the ability to still customize.