Hi all, I’ve been having issues with my favorite games on EndeavourOS Linux. Also, on top of that, an update the other day deleted my whole plasma desktop and left me with a skeleton of SDDM. I got it fixed, but some things are still wonky. I’m honestly getting tired of maintaining it and I just want something that just works for my video games and some coding. Nobara sounded awesome after some research. I do have a couple of questions for you all before switching:

  1. Is Nobara atomic? Immutable? Or whatever those distros are called.

  2. I have my /root, /home separate each in their own drive, plus a 3rd one for my steam and other games. Since I’m coming from Arch and I’ll only be formatting my root drive, what folders/files will I need to remove from my /home directory after switching to Nobara so I don’t have issues?

  3. Since I separate drives for everything, I’ll be doing a manual partitioning when I install Nobara, and will be choosing btrfs for my /root so I can do snapshots with timeshift. My question is, does Nobara set up the subvolumes automatically for me when I do manual partitioning, or do I need to set them up myself?

  4. How hard is it to set up snapshots in grub?

  5. Or does Nobara have a back up tool already that already does snapshots?

Thank you.

  • thayer@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    If immutable is high on your priorities, Fedora’s Atomic options are a solid choice. And if you’d like the added convenience of a gaming-focused take on those, checkout Bazzite.

    Unfortunately, I don’t think either of them allow custom partitioning while also maintaining automatic subvolume creation.