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I truly believe Nobara to be better suited for gaming than Bazzite. I don't really get the hype. But then again, to each his own distro.
Nobara didn't used to have a Steam Deck image. Bazzite was one of the first distros, if not the first to have one. that's why Bazzite is more popular. there was a huge surge of people on r/SteamDeck who switched to Bazzite, and that popularity moved on to other handhelds like the ASUS ones.
I'm not sure if that reasoning is true, though. The popularity over time of both Bazzite and Nobara can be viewed through many different ways, but the data seems to suggest that Bazzite overtaking Nobara in popularity happened long after both had received their respective Steam Deck images. Heck, even Bazzite's own metrics seem to suggest that the hype is a very recent one. This is also reflected on social media platforms like Youtube:
As for how or why Bazzite succeeded in overtaking Nobara? I actually don't know. Perhaps it's simply because it happens to be closer to SteamOS^[The Linux distro shipped in over (allegedly) 4 million sold units.] in design philosophy. Or, maybe its atomic/'cloud-native' (or whatever) nature makes it (somehow) more attractive to install for the crowd that (at least traditionally) never got into Linux.
FWIW -perhaps we may find the crux of the matter in here- if I had to pick a distro to use on my personal gaming rig, then I'd probs go for CachyOS^[And use it until it breaks... At least, that's what happened to my previous Arch(-based) installations.] for its (ever-so-slightly) superior performance. But..., if I were to install a distro on the gaming rig of a new-Linux user, then I'd undoubtedly go for Bazzite instead.