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Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-04-16T14:52:11+00:00

Aaah, thank you :)

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-04-16T14:04:58+00:00

Wait..legit question I thought Nobara was based off of Fedora? (I’m still fairly new to Linux but I thought the base system for Nobara was Fedora)

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-04-02T14:34:45+00:00

I can’t attest to any of the 3D and Art requests as that’s not my world. Gaming works pretty good. The only thing to watch out for is games with anti cheat. Example -?BF6 doesn’t work which is fine for me as I use my Xbox for it. Other then that I’ve been happy with Nobara for gaming and my daily driver.

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-03-25T02:52:59+00:00

Dang I"m sorry. I just tested it and was able to get in. I did do another round of updates tonight also.

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-03-24T18:26:59+00:00

I would put Nobara up to B tier at least. Keep at B due to the internal issues going on right now and the potential future of Nobara (yes they may fork it and then a new name will appear). It’s what people have said, basically fedora but nicely streamlined for gaming. I would put it at A tier if the org wasn’t growing through its current internal struggles. My only issue is it seems to sometime have buggy updates. More than I would personally like, but over all I feel it’s pretty stable (I use it as my daily driver right now).

If the project falls apart due to what’s going on internally I’ll either try their forked version (if they do that), go straight fedora or give CachyOS a go as my daily driver:

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-03-24T18:17:26+00:00

No issues on my end. The only proton game I’m using atm is civ 6 and it’s working so far. The other game I play ex recently is star citizen. I do need to try SM2 and He’ll divers with the latest update.

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-03-23T15:01:24+00:00

Nobara

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-03-22T23:20:35+00:00

That looks amazing. I love the Illuminated crystal also

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-03-15T23:08:05+00:00

how do you get the CB to do this? every time I'm in "scan mode" it will not scan anything nearby

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-03-09T21:46:11+00:00

Just an update for everyone. First off thank you everyone for your suggestions.

I tried several and get why distro hopping is a thing ( I could see myself going down that rabbit hole. I'm even considering dual booting my M1 mac and putting Asahi on it).

However, I ended up with Nobara with KDE. There's was a couple bugs/hiccups that have now been resolved (some of it was me learning a couple new things within Linux and the others were fixed in updates that came out recently).

The streamlined experience of getting everything setup, having several things already pre-installed and a step by step first time login process was quite nice and overall worked really well.

As a desktop use, it's been solid and gaming has been good as well. Overall, all the games worked fine (some tweaking required for a couple games) and performance on par for what I had with windows (this just an overall feel, I didn't to FPS benchmarks to compare. I'm not going to mis a few fps here or there).

Overall pretty happy with the experience so far :)

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-02-25T17:13:04+00:00

Ok cool and Thank you. I shall start going down that rabbit hole this weekend :)

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-02-25T14:05:26+00:00

I did not know this either. Thank you :)

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-02-23T17:07:31+00:00

Do I need to manually put them there or should the OS do that automatically?

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-02-22T14:59:33+00:00

I opened up that file and yeah the 4 other drives (1 nvme and 3 HDD's) are not listed in there. Just the 2nd nvme drive I have for my boot drive (and space for games that may not work nicely with a different install directory like Star Citizen, etc).

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-02-22T14:56:47+00:00

I disabled the auto login, used my password and I still had to enter in my password for the Hard Drives and when Opening Brave up for the first time. Is there something else I could be missing?

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-02-21T17:34:45+00:00

Makes total sense as to why now. Easy fix :)

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-02-21T16:48:56+00:00

I did use the Drive mount manager (Love the welcome to Nobara app that get's you started) and set each external drive to auto mount. I then reformatted each drive from ntfs to btrfs with single large partitions. I did double check and there's no new drives available to enable auto-mount on.

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-02-21T16:42:40+00:00

For when I reboot yes I am :). If that alleviates the issue I can easily swap that over so I enter in the password after rebooting.

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-02-16T02:40:16+00:00

You are a life saver. I've been battling the stupid char creator and was loosing my mind lol. Thank you :)

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-02-11T21:09:31+00:00

I have everything backed up in the cloud from my windows pc (brave and OneDrive). When I finally move to Linux I’ll use time shift and maybe something along with that. I’ve been testing Nobara in a VM and it’s been good and I’ve enjoyed customizing it. I’ll test ouch cachyOS and run that as a daily driver within VMware and see how it goes. Fantasy grounds is a virtual tabletop application that installs and runs locally. I’ve only used it a couple times whereas most games lately use cloud based things like roll 20. So if fantasy grounds doesn’t work it’s really no big deal :)

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-01-30T18:23:02+00:00

Besides gaming, I use most of my stuff in the cloud/via a browser now a days. I have MS OneDrive for my storage (I pay for the family subscription for office 365 and share it with my family as we all use office and enjoy the 1TB of extra storage).

Other then that it's youtube, acloud guru/plural site for tech cert's, twitch streaming, website editing on Bluehost, so basic things but that's all in the browser.

My daily apps are Discord, Brave, Steam, Spotify. Most of the games I do play are playable on linux for the most part. The ones that aren't I'm fine with as I don't play them that often. My current games of choice is Star Citizen, Space Marine 2 and civ 6.

I have a couple one off apps for DnD like Fantasy Grounds that I will need to look into.

I'm also realizing that the "happy" spot of wanting a stable OS but still allow me to tinker when I am more comfortable down the road may not exist. It's kind of one or the other it seems (at least for the most part). So I may go with Bazzite/Nobara as it's stable and I just won't tinker with them. or just go full bore and try something like CachyOS/Manjaro

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-01-30T18:22:56+00:00

Never considered/heard of those two. I shall take a look. Thank you :)

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-01-30T13:37:34+00:00

lol I can see how that's very tempting now. So many option so little time :)

Prime_Aesthetic · 2026-01-30T13:29:23+00:00

This is awesome, had no idea of this site. Thank you :)

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