Nobara: Next level Linux gaming and creative workstation

[@SOF006]

I recently moved from Windows to CachyOS and its great for gaming, been playing Wukong and the new WoW expansion. Performance actually feels better on Linux.

[@studentloandebt7598]

Are you using Nvidia or Amd GPU?

[@TVPInterpolation]

just to make sure - you did not use ray tracing in wukong, right? ive been having performance issues compared to windows on my 4090 as soon as i toggle "full ray tracing" on.

[@pajeetsingh]

Which GPU? Because Wukong and Lies of P don't run well on my 2070.

[@BjørjaBear]

I ended up with CachyOS as well. I came over from Win 11 in 2023, distrohopped like someone that has recently become single, and CachyOS ended up as my new home. The system is 7850X3D with a 6800XT, so no Nvidia potential issues. Strangely enough, for me CachyOS has been the most linux noob friendly distro I've tried.

[@fooboomoo]

​@@TVPInterpolationmost likely a driver issue. unlike amd stuff, Nvidia card still have less performance in linux. but Nvidia started to care more about linux. i hope soon we may see parity

[@ArchLars]

It's very very good. For most people I think Nobara would be all they need. People who say "But it's maintained by one guy" need to learn about the guy behind it. He made the distro for his dad and himself, he is a professional Linux dev who works/worked at RedHat and also he is behind ProtonGE. For any other such distro I would get it, but I think he will maintain this personally. I went to Arch Linux however because I wanna get really into Linux.

[@carbon_wavelight]

Arch btw

[@StrikerEureka85]

been using nobara for 2 years. love it

[@rebel6500]

i hate windows.This is really nice.

[@CommanderBeefDev]

in kde type kwin, click it pick get new, install khronkite and enable and apply, bam instant tiling with no setup, this will make your life much better never having to mess with windows again

[@otto_ueue]

I'm so glad that Nobara came back! After that hole in the software, I didn't believe that it would come back.

[@dei123]

I have issues to run it on VM It crash anytime

[@fallen4021]

8:59 Both the switch pro controller and dualshock drivers are backed into the linux kernel but not the xbox, nobara installs xpadneo by default which is an open source driver for Xinput controllers, Great video btw ❤

[@hernandez5072]

Thank you for your review, I'll install this tonight :)

[@beyondearth6418]

OK - we badly need more content and coverage of the latest video games and how they run on Linux. How's Space Marine 2, Diablo 4, Fortnite, Call of Duty, Final Fantasy XVI, etc. Also, on Windows you get a special 3d-v cache optimiser for AMD x3D CPUs. How's that handled in Linux nowadays?

[@compameqs]

Fortnite and call of duty aren’t supported no matter how much tinkering they won’t work. Older cods work just as well as they do on windows really just depends on hardware

[@Starlok007]

Fortnite wont run because of the Anti-Cheat, and I don't got COD, but I've played Apex on linux before and never had problems with it.

[@lamebubblesflysohigh]

newer games generally run just fine unless they have intrusive anti-cheat. It is usually older games that do work or require "work" to make them work but these also often struggle in Windows 10/11 too.

[@InnerFire6213]

The latest game i bought is frostpunk 2. I didn’t even check if it would work on linux, it just does. But if im gonna play competitive titles like COD or fortnite i’d check on protondb if my game would work first

[@EdnovStormbrewer]

It would be funny if Glorious Eggroll added the anime character as the OS's own mascot

[@JohnCodes]

There are a few anime wallpapers bundled with the distro that have the anime 👀

[@defranken]

Please no. Don't turn it into a dweeb distro

[@EdnovStormbrewer]

@@defranken You're free to use any other distro

[@77wolfblade]

@@defranken Agreed. I rather have a glorious egg roll distro.

[@Luiz2959]

I was already looking for a windows suitable replacer, knowing that the support for Win 10 ends next year. But after the announcement of the Recall feature that will be present on the next Win 11 update, now it became mandatory to switch to Linux once and for all. And Nobara is really surprising me! Even games like Brown Dust 2 (a mobile game that has a PC client) works flawlesly, out of the box. Some games don't work, but even so it's way better than stick with windows.

[@armanis1234]

Lol stick with windows linux only if you want to waste a time

[@Luiz2959]

@@armanis1234 If you're a Windows fanboy, what are you doing on a channel that is mostly oriented towards Linux? If you gave up Linux, well, it's a choice you made. The recall feature is too much of a intrusion to let me continuing supporting this company.

[@NavatejRatnan]

@@armanis1234 mate at least give me 5 reasons to use windows that aren't already in Linux. And have you even used Linux before?

[@fooboomoo]

@@Luiz2959 i hope more people are as sane as you

[@fooboomoo]

@@armanis1234 don't feed the trolls that do it for fun ;) if i was gonna bite i would say i have less trouble in linux than i ever had in windows. ymmv

[@TheJason13]

I'm running Fedora 40 on a 1st Gen Ryzen 7 1700x, 64GB of GSkill and whatever RAM came with some new work Dells for a total of 64GB. 500GB Samsung NVMe and an AMD RX 580 8GB. It runs EXTREMELY well for Fedora or any distro you want. Very much looking forward to Fedora 41 in 4-5 weeks :)

What happened to the Fedora project? I remember seeing some news about it recently

[@TheJason13]

Fedora 41 is on deck. Should be out next month (November)

[@Moziilla.Firefox]

please make benchmark for other games like list of old & new games 🐧💙😅

[@svedinaren]

Harry potter doing Linux Wizardy now?

[@codedusting]

Can you make a video editing testing for this distro?

[@bobbarker7216]

Thank you, great video and info. I was wondering , how well does Nobara run on older hardware? I am on an old i5 cpu with 4 GB of DDR3 ram and a GTX 750 . Is that too old to run Nobara? I mainly play strategy games that are not that demanding so I was thinking about simply giving it a try 😇🍀

[@fallen4021]

I like nobara and really considered it but I just installed fedora and enabled some coprs and installed the packages I only need.

[@silverian]

Thank You for Nobara introduction!

[@Lockwood360]

I really want to switch, this video was very intriguing to me, i just worry about game performance vs windows. Can i tune my 7900xt on linux? i play a lot of UE5 games and i heard they werent the best on linux. On Stalker 2 rn its great.

[@iamagoodboi]

Does anyone know how to install a equalizer like dolby atmos for linux? I want switch to linux but sound quality on linux always make me back to windows immediately 😢

[@mathiasdreke180]

I am looking for benchmark results that compare different Linux distros with focus on gaming. I know performance of games is (or could be) a struggle when it comes to gaming on Linux. So what I want in the end is to find The One Distrubution that runs games with the maximum possible performance on my hardware. Do you have any hints where to look next? The best thing for me is a direct comparison between Nobara AND Linux Mint Debian Edition, both running The Witcher 3. The results of such side by side compare would give me enough data to make the decision.

[@StrawberryKitten]

They're all basically the same performance wise, unless they ship with a newer Mesa or (modded) Kernel. And performance is pretty good, sometimes even better than on windows. Give Kubuntu a try.

[@LTPottenger]

The only one that has any optimization for gaming to speak of is cachyOS.

[@j.schmidt631]

With a blank SSD and Nobara USB install setup - how do I get past the GRUB> Again no dual boot or anything. Please help. Thanks

[@SaiBabaWanga]

i think Cachy Os is also good choice for gaming,better or worse i just can not say both Os are optymized for gaming out of the box

[@Moziilla.Firefox]

what you think about Linux fedora nabora ? for ppl focused on gaming & modding is it easy as windows ? 🤔

[@antoniojose1557]

I hated windows then i fall into mac OS.. now im looking for Linux and this distro looks amazing

[@mikoajneronowicz582]

I am also happy with Nobara Linux, although it has its weaker points. The Crew 2 now has an offline mode. I wonder if a solution will be found to run it on Linux. I bought it for $1 and found that it doesn't run on Linux. But this confirms that most games work. Because I hadn't even checked it before.

[@almartin4]

My 15 “ laptop is the only computer I have. It is difficult to do distro installations on it because of the small screen far away. I have a large monitor for daily use and wish distros installers would get their act together for older customers. Only PopOS recognized my external monitor and allowed me to complete the installation fully. Nobara, Mint and all others were a fight to actually see the monitor and I had to reboot to see what was installed. If PopOS can do that why no one else? That should be easy for all of them. I like Nobara a lot but keep falling back on Mint after each try. Games play fine in Mint but they seem cleaner and faster in Nobara. My laptop has an older Nvidia card so problems pop-up in Nobara (only in games). I have used these versions: 36 Games ran fine (small black streaks) 37 Games have big black areas (cannot play) 38 Like 36 with bigger and more streaks 39 Like 36 with smaller streaks Regards

[@GigaWhatt0]

Personally I just use regular Fedora KDE but I definitely don't knock Nobara.

[@UncleSpellbinder]

I agree on proton-ge-custom. While I don't use Nobara (I'm using EndeavourOS), I have proton-ge-custom installed. It really is fantastic.

[@turyng-or1js]

So would you recommend Nobara for a Software Engineer? No issues with Docker Desktop?

[@DefCantGame]

Can confirm docker install works the same as fedora and both fedora and nobara allow you to install the docker desktop app if you need the visual component

[@jdvon]

you most probably know lazydocker, so why do you choose to use docker desktop?

[@turyng-or1js]

@@jdvon No, I did not!!! Thank you so much! I immediately tried it out and it is awesome)))

[@TruckingRonny]

FEDORA IS UP TO VERSION 41 !! Nobara is behind the times, now. I went to their site and it says it is basically Not to be taken seriously. It is a HOBBYIST desktop. WHAT??

[@BrentLeVasseur]

How is nobara from a security perspective? Do you need to setup a firewall and antivirus? And if say you download a windows virus, does it execute under wine or proton like a windows game does?

[@InnerFire6213]

You don’t need any antivirus. You can’t install exe files in linux. So windows virus don’t work. Maybe you can get linux virus but i’ve converted to linux mainly for 3 years now and use torrent all the time, never get any virus

[@CommanderBeefDev]

arch is best, much more support for devs and gaming, i am both, aur has anything you could need , my pc runs better than windows now, switched 10 days ago and used chat gpt to help me after i used archinstall and picked kde for vrr and hdr, yes it exists and its brand new to linux just leave the default theme for sddm alone or welcome to blank desktop and no cli

[@fallen4021]

I literally use Arch everywhere even on my home server (Which is somewhat stupid tbh) except for my laptop I went with fedora

[@CommanderBeefDev]

@@fallen4021 yeah put fedora server on that server, its whats on my laptop lmao and i put kde on it

[@messiahmozgus]

Wasted 2 hours today and wasn't able to get two steam games to launch that launched fine in Mint. Shame. Also Xbox dongle failed to install. Followed their instructions. No such command it said Also it had no Discover or flatpak app store. They removed it recently I guess?

[@lugzgaming5074]

Does DLSS Frame generation work with Nobara?

[@JohnCodes]

Not yet: Nvidia will have to release those drivers to Linux to be able to do that I believe :(

[@StrawberryKitten]

FSR Frame Generation works tho.

[@armanis1234]

Why windows 11 still best for gaming

[@JohnnyHughes1]

Guys, I have to say, It is 5 days later, after I decided to REALLY give Linux a legitimate trial as my gaming machine. I have been releasing CentOS updates since 2004 and some version of Linux has my main 'business' workstation since 1998. But embarassingly enough, I tried windows gaming about 5 years ago on Linux and decided it wasn't really worth the effort. Oh boy, has the tide turned. I litterally can't find a game that I actually play that I can't get to work. Well, outside of Xbox Gamepass, which I will be unsubscribing from before the end of this month :D). All my Steam games are working brilliantly. So much so, I reformatted my main Windows machine and it is now Nobara 40. It is actually kind of embarrasing that Linux gaming became this polished and I have been using Windows .. live and learn. All I am doing now is figuring out how to tweak my AMD GPU on my main gaming box in Linux.

[@FULLTILTSWIFF]

try Tarkov

[@comosaycomosah]

idk but its got a great icon lol

[@djordyroke61]

yet when i try to install davincy resolve oin an clean install i get this error : Missing or outdated system packages detected. Please install the following missing packages: zlib annyone knows how to fix this

[@Hoaxcast]

Run the installer from a terminal and stick SKIP_PACKAGE_CHECK=1 in front of the file path. Simples. It is working perfectly for me. :)

[@djordyroke61]

@@Hoaxcast I did that and it did runed fine but I forgot I can’t edit the video without an studio license

[@Hoaxcast]

@@djordyroke61 ah. If you don’t have a licence run the installer again, hit uninstall and then install the free version (the one without Studio in the name). You’ll be golden.

[@djordyroke61]

@@Hoaxcast I can’t edit my mp4s back on windows I used davincy becouse it’s free for the most part and powerful and has every tool I will ever need

[@asunavk69]

​@@djordyroke61needs to convert with ffempeg the arch wiki about davinci resolve explains this, you will want to check how to do on the free version.

[@BoothTheGrey]

I try Linux every few years and lalways eft it alone very fast. So... now is the next experiment and I tried to install Nobara on Dual Boot (which was already a pain in the ass although my solution is absurdly easy ... which no one ever mentions... just put it on another SSD and switch by changing the boot priority/menu of the Mainboard-UEFI - no tinker around with efi bcd). You even did not mention WHICH Nobara you installed - why? On the website beside special Steam versions there is "official", then there is "KDE" and then there is "GNOME". I chose "official" (so the one on the top). Did you choose a different version? After installing Nobara 40 official (from August 15th) I don't have a graphical software manager and also don't have plasma discover! I only have kind of a packet manager called Yum Extender that opens when I click on "Software Manager" in the Welcome App. Did you install Discover manually later? (Cause that's what I did now). Actually as someone who is not that deep into Linux I find it weird that I run in so many little problems almost no one as KZbin reviewer addresses.

[@watzitboya]

As far as i know, it looks like he uses the KDE version (i currently didn't use linux, have some experience with it, might be back to KDE after it stabilize more for nvidia)

[@Despiser25]

Does anyone do a VR driver? I know of a lot of reverb G2 VR headsets (and many others) that are about to become obsolete by Microsoft. It would sure be nice to have a linux VR distro that would let us continue to use them. If the Linux community got together on ONE thing they should make a DX killer for Linux and let us game without Windows. WE WILL PAY FOR THAT.

[@dasenase]

bro got caught off guard by proton-9-11 lol

[@warzoner6851]

Is it possible and safe to run games that are not on steam, epic games, etc?

[@StrawberryKitten]

Yes. Easiest way would be to added them as a "non-steam Game" in Steam and enable Proton (Steam Play) for it.

[@RukovEveryday]

Next, go over: Satoru Linux Ryomen Linux Toji Linux Megumi Linux Geto Linux Utahime Linux Maki Linux Toge Linux Panda Linux Hakari Linux Kenjaku Linux Mahito Linux Jogo Linux

[@derekwatson8965]

You mean Jogoat Linux. “Throughout Heaven and earth, his terminal, runs the cleanest”

[@RukovEveryday]

@@derekwatson8965Forget just Nobara Linux, we need the whole Jujutsu Linux series!

[@derekwatson8965]

@@RukovEveryday Windows recall is sakuna. A curse so evil it just does at it pleases with no regards to others. We are going to have to assemble all of Linux society to defeat this threat to the world.

[@RukovEveryday]

I FORGOT URAUME LINUX

[@derekwatson8965]

@@RukovEveryday It’s alright, during the epic final battle with Windows 11, she merged in with Hakari Linux and was mostly forgotten about.

[@dabbzgaming]

I feel as if anyone that says linux runs games amazingly they're never using nvidia?

[@messiahmozgus]

I always assume so. I just benched helldiver's 2, hitman, and hunt showdown. Linux mint had about 10% less.

[@FlameForgedSoul]

We tried, but it wouldn't stop locking up after install. There's also the issue of longevity where One Man Band projects are concerned.

[@BlackMage_01]

I have to do it to you. No-Ba-Ra.

[@williammc6953]

el problema de nobara es que solo es mantenido por una persona. en ese sentido es mejor cachy os o garuda pensando a futuro.

[@gamemaker2012]

Are you using the KDE version or official

[@encapsulatio]

Cachy OS is even more polished...at least that is what I'm seeing from my feed of "linux Influencers" reviews.

[@JohnCodes]

I'll have to give it a look: glad to see there are so many good linux gaming and spinoff linux variants these days!

[@tiREV55]

I can't decide which one to try when switching from Windows: Cashy or Nobara...

[@encapsulatio]

@@tiREV55 Try Mint. It will be much less overwhelming. Get used to not be required to use as much the terminal yet still be able to install most software you would ever need. After getting used with a distro you can try Nobara, it will be significantly easier to maintain and not break on you compared to CachyOS that's based on Arch.

[@JohnCodes]

@@tiREV55 Nobara is Fedora based which appealed to me personally: dnf and flatpak included as software repositories is useful me with software engineering

[@JohnnyHughes1]

@@JohnCodes That is also why I am interested in Nobara. (Fedora Based) .. got to keep my Linux in the Family :) (I work on / release CentOS Stream for Red Hat).

[@Moziilla.Firefox]

good , what you think 🤔 best distro for beginner users of linux who wants to switch to Linux Gaming friendly easy distro ? 😅

[@armanis1234]

Windows 11

[@CaptainSkelly]

Yeah go for it. As long as you're okay with doing a bit of reading and research for certain things, but out of the box, Nobara is great. I'm a total linux noob but I've been really enjoying Nobara. Haven't thought about going back to Windows once. I tried Mint a bit, but wasn't getting the gaming performance I should be, so I switched to Nobara. Fantastic OS. The discord is full of great people as well so if you have questions or need something fixed, or just want to make friends with other Linux and nobara users, join up.

[@MikeBob2023]

Thank you, Mr. McBride! /sub

[@voidmind]

Freedom from imposed spyware BS is nice.

[@kmkzer0-999]

NobarA

[@Moziilla.Firefox]

why it feels hard & complicated to switch from windows to Linux from some KZbinrs Experience videos ?

Nobara was my 5th Linux installation in my gaming rig, unfortunately didn’t solve my Bluetooth issues so I came full circle and installed the very first distro I tried, Garuda Draconized Gaming (KDE plasma)

[@UncleSpellbinder]

Nobaro? 😂

[@douglas5097]

All this gaming on Linux is cool, but not practical at all. I’m also a developer who appreciates GNU/Linux, but when it comes to gaming, Windows is king. Try to make Dolby Surround or DTS work under Linux using an optical cable to see the nightmare for example.

[@armanis1234]

Yes linux and gaming=disaster windows is much better

[@armanis1234]

I am give up on linux and completely install windows 11 much much stable and gaming so easy!

[@ramahadranhennessy9300]

Lost me at fedora

[@patioprimate4740]

Why

[@ramahadranhennessy9300]

@ should be pronounced’federalora’; too much sus wokegarbage like opensuse

[@pikachusolu1606]

i dont have to worry about bugs. i install windows 11 and play ganmes without a single issue. Linux is a good hobby but not practical.

[@manhle1582]

You're just lazy. People who have never used Windows will just simply install this distro (or use their current linux) and say the same thing like you did. Windows is not a plug to play gaming platform. After installing it you need to install 6 C++ redistributable packs, DirectX (which comes with a bloatware in the installer LOL) and optionally disable bloatwares and telemetry to save some ram and cpu usage. Is that (without a single issue)?

[@EdnovStormbrewer]

@pikachusolu1606 In what way makes Windows more practical than Linux? If I recall correctly, I didn't need to isolate my Linux OS at all through a Hypervisor while running Windows as baremetal nor need to reinstall my Nvidia drivers if I upgraded my graphics card nor need to debloat my OS unless the unwanted software came preinstalled.

[@JohnnyHughes1]

I am a CentOS Linux Developer and I am doing my annual 'Try Linux gaming and see if I can get rid of Windows for gaming yet'. So far, the answer has always been no .. we'll see how close Linux is to this. I installed Nobara and got the workstation working fine on my old (backup) gaming PC. I can sign into steam, but the installed client is running the Linux version of Steam. I am going to see if I can get things running on Proton-GE .. EDIT: OK, that was easy, set the compatability layer. Thanks 😀

[@richmondrobinson3259]

You mean redistributables that auto install when ran through steam, gog, etc? Windows gamers aren't getting the installer from MS website. And no less bugs on linux? All the games that "work" except for this one part or "work" but these areas of the game have weird artifacting. I LOVE linux and linux gaming's progress but don't spout bullshit that isn't true@@manhle1582

[@r4fi3]

The only thing that is putting me off gaming with Linux is free sync not available