I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I cannot afford to buy games and bottles is a God send at that. Now I realized that I had not logged into my windows partition in over 6 months. So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows( I have a 512 gb ssd so it was a lot) and today after everything was setup, the os took only around 20gb minus the games. Never felt happier.

  • Yerbouti
    32·
    10 months ago

    I you like Fedora, you might want to look at Nobara. Super optimized for gaming and AV work.

    • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
      6·
      10 months ago

      I would advise against Nobara. Why?

      • Only one maintainer. If he quits the project, it will leave many many users without maintenance updates
      • Slow updates. Maintaining a distro is a lot of work, and especially major updates can take many many months.
      • Very insecure. It disables SELinux for example.
      • Many tweaks that might make the OS less reliable.
      • And much more… I absolutely respect GE’s work, but for one person, it’s just impossible/ hard to keep it secure and well working.

      What else would I recommend? Bazzite (if you use your PC only for gaming) or the various other images from universal-blue.org

      Why?

      • They also come with QoL changes by default, just like Nobara
      • They are actually secure because they maintain themselves automatically without any input. If a update comes from Fedora, it takes less than a few hours to also land on uBlue
      • It’s reproducible. Every Bazzite install for example is the exact same. If one user has a bug due to a modification from Bazzite, the dev will have it too and can just fix it easily.
      • And much more.
      • Yerbouti
        3·
        10 months ago

        Well it works perfectly to me. I dont need updates every 24h , I just wants all codecs preinstalled for Davinci and Reaper, and games to work out of the box, and I get all that with Nobara. If the dev abandon it I’ll switch to something else but its currently up to date with fedora and well maintained.

    • IsoSpandy@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      I didn’t know about no bara until today. Maybe I will check it out. But i am really comfortable in fedora now, so if something borks, I will check it.

      • Yerbouti
        4·
        10 months ago

        Yep of course if your system works dont bother switching. Nobara is basically Fedora for gaming. It’s developped by a Proton guy and follows Fedora update cycles with a few months delay.

        • IsoSpandy@lemm.eeOP
          2·
          10 months ago

          I like what glorious eggroll is doing and would love to try it. But it’s a no go for me since it has no selinux.