Mmm, this is kind of what I’m talking about. I’m certainly not knocking Nobara as a distro or people who prefer it, but taken from their FAQ,
Will there ever be other Desktop Environment versions?
No. The ‘Official’ modified KDE release layout was designed for myself and my father out of personal preference.
I heard Nobara breaks SELinux, is this true?
No. We have completely swapped SELinux in favor of AppArmor (this is what Ubuntu and OpenSUSE use).
Is Nobara compatible with SecureBoot?
No. Nobara ships with a kernel that has been custom patched and is built and hosted on COPR.
Can I upgrade from Fedora to Nobara using the Nobara repositories?
NO. This is a big large huge NO. The Nobara install ISOs have a ton of packages that get installed which are specific to Nobara, and not installed on Fedora on fresh install.
Just how modified is Nobara aside from what I can see?
Heavily.
This project is quite new, is it going anywhere? Is there anything to say it won’t just up stop development? Is it something that is recommendable to daily drive? (I am quite technical, and can troubleshoot my issues).
As long as I am alive and using linux this project will continue. It started because I needed something both myself and my father could easily use from clean install without time consuming troubleshooting or extra package and repo installation.
It’s been around since ~2022 compared to Mint in ~2006
These are exactly the kind of points that a casual, new user would stumble across and in attempting to troubleshoot things from a Fedora perspective could trip them up severely.
My point is that casual users are already averse to making the switch and they are likely going to do ONE install and it needs to be as vanilla and stable as possible. If they turn into Linux nerds who want to distro hop later, they’ll find their way, but we need to keep things absolutely stock and simple.
It’s been around since ~2022 compared to Mint in ~2006
A distro that’s been around for 3-4 years is plenty of time to be up and running. Bazzite runs great and has been around a similar amount of time.
Another thing that people don’t factor in: documentation gets outdated. When I was trying to set up my Ubuntu server, a lot of documentation on what I needed was 11-12 years old, and the syntax has changed since then. For newbies, this may as well just be “figure it out yourself”.
Nobara is Fedora but pre-configured for gaming. They mention it briefly in the video.
Mmm, this is kind of what I’m talking about. I’m certainly not knocking Nobara as a distro or people who prefer it, but taken from their FAQ,
It’s been around since ~2022 compared to Mint in ~2006
These are exactly the kind of points that a casual, new user would stumble across and in attempting to troubleshoot things from a Fedora perspective could trip them up severely.
My point is that casual users are already averse to making the switch and they are likely going to do ONE install and it needs to be as vanilla and stable as possible. If they turn into Linux nerds who want to distro hop later, they’ll find their way, but we need to keep things absolutely stock and simple.
A distro that’s been around for 3-4 years is plenty of time to be up and running. Bazzite runs great and has been around a similar amount of time.
Another thing that people don’t factor in: documentation gets outdated. When I was trying to set up my Ubuntu server, a lot of documentation on what I needed was 11-12 years old, and the syntax has changed since then. For newbies, this may as well just be “figure it out yourself”.