Nobara is the oft pointed to gaming distro for Linux. There are three major flavors of Linux as far as I can tell (I did some research for a similar switch, which I haven’t completed because I have some stupid digital coins divesting and when that’s done I’m coming over). There is Debian, Fedora, and Arch. The easiest and simplest way for me to understand them is scaling them in terms of stability and latest releases. Debian is supposedly super stable but furthest behind on releases because of all the stability testing. Arch is least stable but on all of the latest releases. Fedora is the middle ground, more stable but slightly behind.
Nobara is based on Fedora and is recommended for new Linux users who want to game. The steam deck is on an Arch based distro. Linux Mint, another recommended pick for new comers, is based on Debian.
I am personally porting over to Arch Linux, because I want to have the latest releases and I believe I can sufficiently reduce the instability with a couple of processes. I have it installed on my laptop and it’s been seemingly stable for about a quarter.
Ya, sorry, my bad. Someone else commented that there are five flavors and I was like “oof they must not have come across as realistic or viable options for me very early on”. But you know how it is, memory is fickle. This was the best summary I could do as a very inexperienced Linux person.
Just make sure to either read the Arch News so you can avoid most breaking changes, or use paru as your AUR helper as it has a config option to automatically pull the news for you
Just pick one and have fun. You can install pretty much any software you want on any distro, “gaming focused” just means some stuff comes preinstalled/preconfigured.
The process to get gaming on pretty much every distro is:
Install OS
Install Steam and Heroic
Download and play games
Your experience will be very similar on whatever distro you choose.
I recommend Mint or Fedora for new users, mostly because they’re popular so getting help should be easy. I personally use openSUSE Tumbleweed though, which is also fantastic.
I would personally recommend the base distros and I am a big fan of Fedora myself. Has been rock solid for the last 4 years or so. Although you’ll have to choose a desktop environment as well. I use gnome, which imo just looks and feels really good, although it’s not as easy to customise. You can also pick KDE, which looks more like windows by default but you have so many settings it’s a bit too much imo.
You can always change the desktop later if you really want to, so pick whatever you think you’ll like best
This is a great explanation except for one detail. Stability refers to release cycles in the Linux world, so your description of stability is a little redundant. The word you’re looking for is reliability, but all 3 of the giants provide that.
The release cycle and the package managers are the two biggest factors that most people decide their distro based off. There are some more considerations as you get deeper into the Linux world, like your init system and whatnot, but those two are the big drivers IME.
nobara is more focused on gaming and includes patches and software to play games without having to tinker a lot. you could use any distro but some games might have performance issues or require additional settings and configuration. nobara gets rid of maintaining that yourself, you might still have to tinker with a few things like launch options but not as in depth as other distros.
another popular distro is bazzite which does similar things, though i feel that’s a bit more advanced to understand some concepts.
if your curious about switching i would recommend, if you can, to install a second hdd (can be cheap/small) and try one or both of them for a week to see what it’s like and how well your games run. also if you don’t like how one looks you can also try different desktop implementations. coming from windows, KDE will feel very familiar.
Whats Ubique about Nobra? Been looking at Linux distros to replace windows 10 since EOL is coming up
Nobara is the oft pointed to gaming distro for Linux. There are three major flavors of Linux as far as I can tell (I did some research for a similar switch, which I haven’t completed because I have some stupid digital coins divesting and when that’s done I’m coming over). There is Debian, Fedora, and Arch. The easiest and simplest way for me to understand them is scaling them in terms of stability and latest releases. Debian is supposedly super stable but furthest behind on releases because of all the stability testing. Arch is least stable but on all of the latest releases. Fedora is the middle ground, more stable but slightly behind.
Nobara is based on Fedora and is recommended for new Linux users who want to game. The steam deck is on an Arch based distro. Linux Mint, another recommended pick for new comers, is based on Debian.
I am personally porting over to Arch Linux, because I want to have the latest releases and I believe I can sufficiently reduce the instability with a couple of processes. I have it installed on my laptop and it’s been seemingly stable for about a quarter.
This hurts right in the openSUSE. 😟
Ya, sorry, my bad. Someone else commented that there are five flavors and I was like “oof they must not have come across as realistic or viable options for me very early on”. But you know how it is, memory is fickle. This was the best summary I could do as a very inexperienced Linux person.
Especially nowadays when it doesn’t feel safe using a US product, even FOSS.
Just make sure to either read the Arch News so you can avoid most breaking changes, or use paru as your AUR helper as it has a config option to automatically pull the news for you
Have a spare hard drive I use to test different ones like Ubuntu, mint and the like, but it’s good to know that some gaming focused ones exist
(Any one you recomend for a semi new Linux user other then this one?€
Just pick one and have fun. You can install pretty much any software you want on any distro, “gaming focused” just means some stuff comes preinstalled/preconfigured.
The process to get gaming on pretty much every distro is:
Your experience will be very similar on whatever distro you choose.
I recommend Mint or Fedora for new users, mostly because they’re popular so getting help should be easy. I personally use openSUSE Tumbleweed though, which is also fantastic.
I would personally recommend the base distros and I am a big fan of Fedora myself. Has been rock solid for the last 4 years or so. Although you’ll have to choose a desktop environment as well. I use gnome, which imo just looks and feels really good, although it’s not as easy to customise. You can also pick KDE, which looks more like windows by default but you have so many settings it’s a bit too much imo.
You can always change the desktop later if you really want to, so pick whatever you think you’ll like best
This is a great explanation except for one detail. Stability refers to release cycles in the Linux world, so your description of stability is a little redundant. The word you’re looking for is reliability, but all 3 of the giants provide that.
The release cycle and the package managers are the two biggest factors that most people decide their distro based off. There are some more considerations as you get deeper into the Linux world, like your init system and whatnot, but those two are the big drivers IME.
nobara is more focused on gaming and includes patches and software to play games without having to tinker a lot. you could use any distro but some games might have performance issues or require additional settings and configuration. nobara gets rid of maintaining that yourself, you might still have to tinker with a few things like launch options but not as in depth as other distros.
another popular distro is bazzite which does similar things, though i feel that’s a bit more advanced to understand some concepts.
if your curious about switching i would recommend, if you can, to install a second hdd (can be cheap/small) and try one or both of them for a week to see what it’s like and how well your games run. also if you don’t like how one looks you can also try different desktop implementations. coming from windows, KDE will feel very familiar.