The Ultimate Linux Distro For Gamers In 2024?

Today we have a look at nobara 39, is it the best distro for gamers in 2024? we go through what nobara is and who maintains it, installing nobara 39, and playing games on it!
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ENABLING NVIDIA 545 DRIVER ON NOBARA
sudo dnf update nobara-repos --refresh
sudo dnf4 config-manager --set-enabled nobara-nvidia-new-feature-39
then run the Update System app and reboot. It should sync you to the 545.29.06 drivers.
If you want to downgrade back to 535.146.02, disable the repo
sudo dnf4 config-manager --set-disabled nobara-nvidia-new-feature-39
then run the Update System app again and reboot.
Content of the video
0:00 - Disclaimer
00:57 - Intro
02:07 - What is nobara?
03:35 - Who maintains nobara?
05:50 - Why nobara
07:00 - Where to download nobara
08:29 - Nobara's new theme for kde
09:46 - Installing nobara 39
11:12 - DISABLE SECUREBOOT
12:00 - Installing nobara on my laptop
13:23 - Booting into nobara 39
15:00 - Updating nobara
17:34 - Setting up kde plasma
20:37 - NVIDIA DRIVER 545
22:36 - Nobara welcome screen
30:14 - Whats included in nobara 39
37:01 - Nobara 39 Changelog
45:30 - Gaming on nobara 39
52:40 - Conclusion
53:15 - Outro

[@djole0501]

Finally an actual review of Nobara 39.. sick of seeing people "reviewing" it by putting it on a live usb and commenting on the looks. Great vid!

[@christianmino3753]

Agreed, A lot of channels review distros that way and it's frustrating.

[@raton9566]

Great video! I'll have a look at the changelog. I switched from windows to Nobara 2 weeks ago and was a bit lost on how to run the games (which version of proton, differences between wine and proton, shader cache issues.... ), and I've learned a lot thanks to your videos, which I really appreciate. So thank you and happy new year from France 😊

[@s0ww0s]

great video with deep insights about Nobara 39 - looking forward to more masterpieces, haha :) plus happy new year from Austria

[@ShinyHelmet]

Been waiting for Nobara 39 to hit. Glad they've moved their distro to a modified KDE desktop now too.

[@technautic-music]

Much appreciated video! Thanks!

[@carolinarehbein9365]

Happy new year! I hava a question, I'm looking if nobura is optimized for OBS/streaming?

[@linuxnext]

Happy new year aswell Yes obs works well on nobara, if you use the obs version that is provided under nobara it will work great, or you can go the flatpak route aswell which also works well

[@joehNZ]

Nice video! I've just switched a PC to Nobara 39 as a dedicated gaming PC. Working nicely!

[@toddmclaughlin8153]

I have been a Microsoft user from the first 286 cpu. But I have switched over to Nobara part time. I have the the new 39 and it has been grate. I'm getting around in it almost as well as Windows.

[@n0viewers409]

I would have to agree, Nobara is top notch out of the box for gaming and content creation. It is one of the most responsive and functional desktops I have ever used. I am used to the old official release with customized gnome and that was my shindig. There are plenty of Distros that work out of the box but Nobara is cool and made by someone who really understands proton. This man made playing Re2 remake amongst other RE engine games possible way before proton officially supported it. The only other Distros I have used that come close to Nobara is Garuda Gnome. Fedora has come so far recently and fedora based distros are awesome. Cutting edge is paving the way! I am about to give Nobara 39 a shot and plan on installing and playing some Re4 Remake. Thankfully I have an all AMD machine so my Linux experience is mostly headache free. Awesome video my friend!

[@buoyler]

Dude the wallpaper is godly :)

[@akarna69]

Like me.

[@justhooper1166]

Hey you may already know this but a quick hint, with all these different distros you’re testing out. If you have a large flash drive or sd card like 64gb use something like ventoy to be able to store multiple ISO’s to one drive rather than flashing it for each distro. You’ll be able to choose which one you want to boot into by booting to the flash drive/sd card. It’s a great way to flip between them and you can always just drag and drop more iso to the drive once you flashed ventoy onto it at anytime. Great work on this channel. I’ve watched like 20 videos in the last 2 days

[@TeamLinux01]

The "Host Remote Play" shortcut restarts Steam with the pipewire flag, so that the video/audio can be streamed properly through pipewire to another client since Wayland has security settings to prevent spying. It isn't required if you log into the system using X11 and it is not perfect, as some games don't output properly anyways.

[@linuxnext]

I see, thank you

[@frogmatt33]

Thanks mate - very useful overview. Cheers.

[@perkulant4629]

Have you tried the auto tiling in kde? i use it in gnome via the pop extension. I really should not be lazy and try it myself though.

[@linuxnext]

yeah, it works great. super + t brings up the customization, then holding shift will snap them into place

[@user-dz3ph7dl4m]

nice and indepth coverage of nobara 39

[@albedo9127]

Thanks for the in-depth showcase, I think I'm going to try Nobara instead of switching to windows 11.

[@Gray3ther]

I've always ran into one issue or another (or so much to pull your hair out over the years) trying run games with a Linux distro on a hybrid laptop. Pop has been close to flawless for me the past couple of years. But wanting to try KDE (that works), being a huge fan of GE and watching your review, I'm stoked to give Nobara a try. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with the community!

[@RICK_MCN]

Ypu know how long i have been looking for a good video on this Linux for gaming. Nice video brother much appreciated 💯💯

[@JEgkt]

Ublue and Fedora Silverblue is really great if you don't want to mess with nvidia drivers and also Asus kernels are included for gaming laptops and i must say its on par with PopOs in battery life. Also supergfxctl is included when selecting integrated or hybrid graphics.

[@theflyingscotsman5933]

Watched the whole video. Pretty sick man, you gained a sub. I tried moving to Linux a few years ago, but it was pretty janky then ngl. Looks like it's improved a lot. Back then a lot of people recommended doing VFIO GPU passthrough and running games in a windows vm. Is that pretty unnecessary now? Also I like to play older titles, I'm a bit of a patientgamer, and I like to use AMD's Virtual Super Resolution to run them at 5120x2160 downsampled to my monitors actual resolution of 2560x1080. No jaggies and it looks damn clean. Do the linux gpu drivers support that yet?

[@linuxnext]

Thank you Running games through a vm isnt rlly necessary anymore unless their is a game you rlly want to play and dont want to run the game just on windows in a daul boot. Fsr is supported and fsr3 will be supported pretty soon as it has been open sourced recently The super resolution you can do but it would be through gamescope which is a tool that lets you do tons of customization to your game either it be upscailing or downscailing, stretching the resolution github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope Its also preinstalled in nobara

[@kazuhiroyasei]

Quite unrelated question! Which Plasma theme do you use?

[@linuxnext]

Just breeze lol or what nobara is using at the moment

[@pedrocas280]

Thank you for your videos. Since i'm a newbie compare to others, I've learn a lot from you about Linux Gaming. Nobara is great, one of favorite distros. I don't know why, my pc doens't like KDE very much and since I have to use it for work, i've changed back to OpenSuse Tumbleweed Gnome. But it's just what works for me right now, Nobara is a great distro :)

[@molsen7549]

Hi I apologize if you answered this in the video already, but does this support HDR and VRR?

[@linuxnext]

Vrr yes in kde wayland, hdr no BUT will be available next month with plasma 6 :) And I have tested hdr on my monitor (hdri) under plasma 6 and it works wonderfully

[@dimitarmetodiev2877]

My Acer Nitro 5 didn't want to switch to dGPU, stays on Hybrid. Can't change from Wayland to x11, or back. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

[@TheShadowflarer]

Thanks for the video, i was searching for Linux gaming because i want to be windows free and i finally made my decision, going to try this one out!

[@linuxnext]

Nice, whats your hardware?

[@TheShadowflarer]

@@linuxnext i have a RTX 3070 with Ryzen 5 5600.

[@linuxnext]

@@TheShadowflarer seems pretty good, nobara will use wayland by default and nvidia sometimes can be a little iffy on wayland so if you have issues try x11 by loggin out and switching it on the bottom left when your on the login screen. Good luck!

[@TheShadowflarer]

@@linuxnext Thanks for the tips! Will try for a few days, if i get some problems that i can't solve then i might try a different distro.

[@elfinofficial4071]

I can't get usb gamepad to work with Xbox cloud on browser. Had to install Windoze on a separate partition just for the PC Pass. Have you ever come across this problem? Same problem with GeForce Now on web browser as well.

[@linuxnext]

No because i dont use cloud services

[@vroomvroom9911]

hey, i wanna install this on an external hard drive and only boot up from it when i have the drive plugged in. what steps should i do different to make it so i can boot into my windows os which is my main os (for the time being) when the drive isnt plugged in and then when i plug the external drive with nobara installed i can switch to that?

[@linuxnext]

Well when you install nobara on that external drive you would need to put your efi boot partition on your main drive so that when you want to boot into nobara your grub isnt missing

[@vroomvroom9911]

@linuxbenchmarks I managed to figure it out actually, now I'm currently setting up a windows vm for gpu passthrough

[@robert1097]

For some reason after booting it from the usb and trying to install I don't have the wi-fi available but on the normal Fedora I do...

[@az9az9az9]

The startup gui helper has some info about Davinci resolve addons and Blender HIP addons. But AMD has only released HIP support for 7900 GPU's. This is fine, you can disable HIP render in Blender. But if OpenCL support is installed then some apps just run into error on AMD hardware. AMD dropped OpenCL support many years ago, they supply ROCm software on very few devices on temporary basis. If you look Geekbench ML (cross-platform AI benchmark that uses real-world machine learning tasks) test results, then AMD 2023 laptop Zen 4 CPU's are 90 times slower than ipad iphone. Preinstalling a lot of addons on unsupported hardware will make apps run slower than on native c++ mode.

[@user-xg2zh6hk7e]

Have you compared and used Garuda?

[@linuxnext]

I have used Garuda and i think it can be a great arch based distro for gaming but for me the theme that is applied is too flashy lol. i feel like im in a candy shop 😂

[@joecucchiara9706]

I have a PC with Gigabyte RTX 2080 ... Does Nobara have support for nVidia video cards ?

[@linuxnext]

Yes they also have a iso with the drivers preinstalled

[@XHobbiesPrime]

I dropped windows back in September for Nobara 38 KDE Plasma and it has been great so far. I'm wondering if it is worth upgrading to Nobara 39 at this time.

[@linuxnext]

eh its not that much of difference ngl should be fine till next release 6 months later thats awesome tho :) glad your having a good time

[@oraclejmt]

Eventually you'll know when the one you are using is EOL. Every release is supported for 9 months.

[@OthoDaFe]

I just did it and it's not worth it IMO. No difference.

[@XHobbiesPrime]

Everything is working pretty well right now so I will hold off for a bit. Thanks for the heads up @@OthoDaFe

[@53slavicchildren62]

Does a wired xbox360 controller work if you just plug it in or are there a bunch of hoops to jump through for that to work?

[@linuxnext]

Works out of the gate. Xbox 360 should use xinput and that works as i have a 8bitdo sn30 pro plus and it shows up as a 360 controller on steam and emulation software

[@53slavicchildren62]

That is such a relief, I remember a few years ago getting a controller to work took several hours. Thanks for the reply.@@linuxnext

[@jamesyoung151]

I looked at Nobara a while ago in both a virtual machine an older laptop. I prefer the KDE version, but it is an excellent OS. At the moment, I'm using Garuda on my newer laptop.

[@jamesmason7124]

Hello, I have a Panasonic toughbook CF-19z mk8, model number CF-19ZA813DM laptop that I want to use linux on. My specs are Intel i5 3610me processor, Intel HD-4000 gpu with 1.6gb vram , Intel AHC269 sound, Samsung 850 pro 1tb sata ssd, 16gb of ram. What would you recommend for my setup and for watching movies, offline GPS and offline modding and gaming for Oblivion and Skyrim

[@linuxnext]

Maybe debian with xfce or linux mint

[@eucharistenjoyer]

How well does it work with Laptops that have hybrid AMD Integrated with Nvidia RTX dedicated? Just bought myself a new SSD and I'm thinking about giving Linux another shot.

[@linuxnext]

It will automatically detect when to use a dedicated gpu. im pretty sure the rest of the operating system runs off the integrated and then when you play games it will use your dedicated gpu, dont count me on that tho as iv mever used a hybrid laptop before Im also pretty sure it has a package to allow you to change it to full dedicated gpu or hybrid mode in the taskbar of kde plasma

[@eucharistenjoyer]

@@linuxnext This is nice, I actually would like to have both options, as sometimes you can squeeze more performance when going full dedicated gpu (at least on windows). Thank you.

[@zerog456]

I'd like to try it but when I first booted it, found i needed to use the no graphic option for installer, now i still can't boot into it without a black screen, assuming it doesn't like my 3080. But i can't find out how to boot with no graphic drivers to try and get the propriatary driver's

[@linuxnext]

If you choose the nobara nvidia iso then they are preinstalled, When you get to black screen do ctrl, alt f3 Then after login do sudo dnf update nobara-repos --refresh sudo dnf4 config-manager --set-enabled nobara-nvidia-new-feature-39 sudo dnf update --refresh akmods After your done restart If that doesnt work with the new drivers, downgrade to 535 by doing sudo dnf4 config-manager --set-disabled nobara-nvidia-new-feature-39 sudo dnf remove kmod-nvidia* sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh akmods

[@devilzavacado8430]

I'd be interested to see you do a video comparing nobara and bazzite os.

[@linuxnext]

Hmm seems like a interesting distro similar to nobara for gamers, so i will 100% have a look

[@TeamLinux01]

It is a very nice distro if you like the SteamOS experience. Something to keep in mind, when booted in Game mode on Bazzite, you can get system updates through Steam interface. It does take a while to apply the updates and it will not be able to tell you what has changed, as that update system change log is controlled via Steam and cannot be changed by the Bazzite team.

[@PSELMASTER]

Great video for both enthusiasts and newcomers (I'm in the middle xD) ^^ With all due respect: it's pronounced Nóbárá xD

[@MrSamadolfo]

🙂 Hi friend, do you have any idea why the mouse pointer hangs up intermitentaly, i can make it hang by simply moving the steam icon on the desktop, and i've seen the same problem on two other of my desktops, something really weird about this distro, i tried Peppermint OS and its doesnt hang the mouse pointer, so its definitely something with this distro, i'm surprised no one else has noticed it?

[@linuxnext]

Its because it doesnt happen lol, whats your hardware?

[@MrSamadolfo]

on both my msi z690 i7 12700 working fine in windows 11 and Peppermint OS but intermittent freezes in nobara, on my gigabyte z690 i7 12700 is seems to be running nobara just fine, maybe has something to do with the type of motherboard? but yeah its strange ive been googling around and nobody really mentions the intermittent freezing problems, it seems to be a hit and miss distro for the moment, I just tried Regata and so far has no intermittent freezing on the msi board 🙂 @@linuxnext

[@linuxnext]

are you using nvidia? if so switch to x11

[@MrSamadolfo]

yes invidia, ok I will test that out, thanks for the tip 🙂@@linuxnext

[@TheLordNugget]

lol, the only game I've played drunk was CoD Black Ops II Zombies. It all melded together. We apparently got to one of the rounds in the 20's or 30's but I literally thought we were on the same round the whole time. Nobara looks to be a solid OS. I'm probably going to give it a run. Been looking for a distro that I could use for gaming. Simplicity within the OS would allow me to push things as much as I can.

[@imamethyx]

Don't quote me on this one, but I think Host Remote Play is to allow any game and app in your library to be Remote Play compatible, something like Parsec but for Linux... Something I've been wanting to do for a long time but didn't get it to work. It is possible but not sure if that's what it is.

[@ThermalLance-hg4rd]

Heh, I tried Nobara. Interesting project. I might revisit it someday but im way too happy with EndeavourOS at the moment.

[@valeriikuzivanov6832]

I'm on Nobara right now and what can i say. Every time when I boot Nobara something can going wrong. Sometimes it just stuck and you have to hard reset. Sometimes everything(even the mouse move) lags after booting. But sometimes it works fine. I didn't find a pattern why it happening, just rebooting my system until it will work. I will give a chance for 1-2 weeks and then probably will switch back to Debian.

[@linuxnext]

whats your hardware?

[@valeriikuzivanov6832]

@@linuxnext Z690-A, 12600k, Gigabyte RTX 3060, 64GB

[@Quantumbytes9345]

I just have a 2gb ram Laptop with i3 second gen and windows 10 Home is laging too much on it I want to move onto linux, so tell me if my PC is good enough to handle the new Nobara kde 39

[@linuxnext]

I recommend you install something like linux mint

[@GugureSux]

I second the recommendation above. Something like Linux Mint, namely its lighter FXCE variant, would be more fitting choice for such an old AND weak system. You could also try something like Linux Lite. But which ever distro you go with, you should definitely consider upgrading the RAM if at all possible. Even 8GB is starting to be too little.

[@_Djura_]

How do I change and tweak destop color settings under Nobara? In windows its nvidia control panel...

[@linuxnext]

If you switch to x11 you can change it in your kde settings in color and Nvidia should have a color setting in their control panel on x11 Their is also a application that i remember called vibrant linux so if you search for it in discover you can probs find it, rlly good simple app for enhancing color saturation flathub.org/apps/io.github.libvibrant.vibrantLinux

[@_Djura_]

Thank you very much! @@linuxnext

[@dragonfly8568]

Nobara is the most “it just works” distro I’ve ever used and will be my daily driver fir the foreseeable future

[@systembreaker4651]

Can you put your wallpaper link and make tutorial for customize fedora kde ❤

[@linuxnext]

x.com/artpaji/status/1735726513264492565?s=20 i then use upscaler to upscale them

[@elvendragonhammer5433]

Never heard of this one before, & considering it's primed for Nvidia it probably wouldn't be much use to me now- would have a few years back before I swapped everything over to AMD. I've been using Garuda dr460nized (the KDE "gaming" ver) for about a year now, & it includes even more than this distro & auto installs missing dependencies etc; as well. Can't say whether it's better or not as I've never tried Nobara, but it seemed easier to pickup. I also set up a system for my niece, (6yo) using ChimeraOS, on an older McDonalds Slimline "KVS Station" PC (AMD on/die GPU) so she could run her steam & GOG games I got her, like Autonauts. That was so simple, she can do just about whatever she needs w/o me having to show her now. She's starting to learn how to get around & update things in the Terminal. Last time I visited she asked me: "Why does linux go so fast but windows is all poopy?" I could help but crack up.

[@linuxnext]

Lmao i love this comment, good to see the younglings learning linux

[@elvendragonhammer5433]

Thanx for the vid regardless, & sometimes the truth that comes out of their mouth's needs to be heard lol.@@linuxnext

[@nishanthadda8824]

I installed nobara 39 alongside windows 11 and downloaded dying light 2 but nothing happens after launching do I need to configure wine?

[@linuxnext]

Nope, just use proton or wine-ge and thats it Whats your hardware? And what is dying light 2 on?

[@nishanthadda8824]

​@@linuxnexti was launching games on ntfs disk there were some issues so symlink solved the issue

[@linuxnext]

@@nishanthadda8824 I highly suggest you do not use ntfs on linux, there are ways of making it work but in general you should be using ext4 or btrfs for games running through proton or native

[@zekarou7831]

I tried Nobara but I find *Garuda Dragonized Gaming Edition* as the better option and useful for me. I have several old Windows games already istalled on my hardrive and I can run them flawlessly on GD live USB just using WINE that comes with it pre-installed. I don't even have to tweak anything. 🙂

[@lorenzzz8630]

Nice Potential Man wallpaper on a Nobara vid

[@Wpar]

Nice video man, it inspired me to dual boot it to give it a try and it was good until it told me to restart for an update and now whenever I try and boot it I get something like a failed to start system services error and it just takes me to a console

[@linuxnext]

Ok well your in the console so sign in and then do a sudo dnf update Sudo dnf autoremove

[@Wpar]

@@linuxnext I’ll give that a try later thanks

[@Wpar]

@@linuxnext I’m guessing the WiFi isn’t working on it as I got loads of couldn’t resolve host names errors

[@linuxnext]

@@Wpar if you want to connect to wifi in tty read this forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-connect-to-wifi-from-tty/47687

[@Wpar]

@@linuxnext Someone in the discord helped me fix it, thanks for your help tho man. What it was was a login manager or something

[@stadtminish3219]

I would like to agree. Unfortunately, Nobara doesn't really run smoothly. The graphical updater hangs, Lutris takes forever to start and also crashes when trying to install Ubisoft Connect. I have an AMD 7600 and would therefore like to use a current distro. Ubuntu 23.10 complicates a lot of things with Snap, so I'll try openSuse or Fedora next.

[@linuxnext]

For lutris use flatpak instead as i have had the same problems with it on system packaged version But im installing opensuse tumbleweed right now lol as i prefer it for the most part

[@hitechfl]

​@@linuxnextI love OpenSUSE but switched to Debian 12 Bookworm and am at least as happy with it. In fact, there's been a couple of things that just worked better and/or easier to get going. Both are great and underrated, IMHO.

[@ocupacaogamer]

I use Nobara on a RX 7800XT and it was rock solid from the beginning! No problem with Lutris, neither with Mesa (24.1 at the moment), wayland, VRR, Davinci Resolve...eveything working just fine here

[@linuxnext]

@ocupacaogamer on amd you can have a very good experience on linux, not so much on nvidia if your going in blind

[@FeelingShred]

anyone knows of distros that come with WINE pre-installed out of the gate? I only know of Zorin OS that does that... bonus points if not using SystemD 🤣and extra bonus points if having full compatibility with Ryzen processors (and full APU functionality, power plans, etc)

[@linuxnext]

Why would you need wine preinstalled exactly? If you use bottles, heroic, lutris they install wine for you and you would use either wine-ge or proton-ge which package other dependencies like translation layers to get games working I dont see why ryzen processors + apu wouldnt work under a rolling distro like endeavor, opensuse tumbleweed or nobara/fedora Same goes for power plans, as long as your above 6.7 it should work properly under something like corectrl or lact for changing power or overclocking, underclocking etc

[@kemedytere]

Could you please do a turotrial to configure cs2? on fedora 39. I can't play it. just black screen

[@linuxnext]

Are you forcing proton on it? Native should work on most hardware, whats your gpu?

[@kemedytere]

@@linuxnext I tested all the protons, and the one that opens the game is Proton 8.5. My setup is a Xeon 2625v3, GTX 1660 Super, 16GB RAM, and a 240GB SSD with 500MB/s read/write speeds. The most I can achieve using Proton 8.5 is to open the game and get a black screen.

[@linuxnext]

@@kemedytere ok, cs2 doesnt support proton, please use native

[@kemedytere]

ok@@linuxnext

[@kemedytere]

I put it native, cs2 doesn't open

[@mohamad20zx34]

Thanks for giving Justice for Novara its actually been really good for both Beginners and Gamers

[@ocupacaogamer]

Working flawlessly on my Ryzen 9 7900 + RX 7800 XT

[@Fender178]

Also another reason why GE said another reason why he when this route is because he lives much further away from his dad and he can't work on his machine as much has he did in the past so he wants his dad to have the best stable install as possible. Which also he mentions in his interview with Brodie Robertson. Also nice detailed video on Nobara.

[@linuxnext]

Yah, without his dad i dont think nobara would have became a thing

[@OmprakashSharma-wx2ne]

I really liked the wallpaper can someone link it?

[@linuxnext]

twitter.com/artpaji/status/1747617814608011658?t=JKVN22u68vVJlJ9D1taxQA&s=19

[@sargetyu]

Wanna switch from win10 by the end of support date. Total newbie to linux. My use case is vid recording/twitchstreaming an some basic editing. I do alot of gaming and emulation. I also watch youtube netflix dinsey+ amazon prime and i like google chrome and firefox for net browsing. Not a big fan of telemetry. Acer nitro5 gaming laptop Nvid geforce gtx 1650 Amd ryzen 3550h cpu 20 gb am 256 gb ssd 1tb hdd Also i use my ps4 pad for my pc gaming and also use wiimotes for lightgun games. One extra thing is i like how batocera seems from the vids i saw but i heard its meant to be used offline as its notsecure

[@linuxnext]

What games do you play? When it comes to recording/Livestreaming it will be the exact same as windows, especially with a update that is coming out with obs that will bring it on par with windows encoding. For basic recording there is a great app called gpu screen recorder that is equivalent to nvidias shadowplay flathub.org/apps/com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder When it comes to google chrome all of that is supported, if you go the gpu screen recorder link you can look at that store and find the major browsers that are supported on Linux Emulation is awesome on linux, you get better performance because of the vulkan driver that is implemented in linux All of your services will work like netflix etc its the exact same as windows Also yes sony supports the ps4 and ps5 controller in the linux kernel so thats all goods also Im unsure about wii controllers, if i had to guess it is supported but not officially by Nintendo but maybe im wrong and it is supported officially in the kernel wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wiimote when windows 10 goes EOL it will be a perfect time to switch as everything will be ready for all types of users and hardware lol On nvidia right now we are in a weird place as nvidia is bringing out a new driver for features that linux users need to have a good experience and we are in a transition phase of moving to some new technology in the linux space like wayland so other things need to be supported in the time being. Its kinda weird because all of these awesome things are arriving in linux and windows 10 is going EOL at the perfect time when linux desktop should be ready lol

[@sargetyu]

@@linuxnext omg thankyou that was very informative. Games like teeken7n8 streetfighter 5 n 6 dbfz dragon ball xenoverse 2 UMVC3. Ghost runner 1 an 2 the surge 2 killing floor nier yakuza series serioussam series hellpoint lego2kdrive koeitecmo warriors games.

[@linuxnext]

teeken7n8 works streetfighter 5 n 6 works dbfz dragon ball works but multiplayer for dbfz isnt supported with proton xenoverse 2 works UMVC3. Works Ghost runner 1 an 2 works the surge 2 works killing floor works nier works yakuza series all works serioussam series all works hellpoint works lego2kdrive works koeitecmo warriors games all works If you want to look at these games with how they work with proton and what users use or other games you want to see if they work you can look at www.protondb.com Or for anticheat stuff you can see here areweanticheatyet.com/

[@sargetyu]

@@linuxnext thankyou for the help info and guidance

[@kborak]

GE is great, but I'll stick to Arch. Makes more sense for gamers since it is what SteamOS is based off of.

[@Winterstarf]

kinda ironic how you got jujutsu kaisen wallpaper and reviewing 'nobara' distro at the same time

[@linuxnext]

:P

[@nishanthadda8824]

Can garuda OS be used instead of nobara?

[@linuxnext]

If you like garuda use garuda, its all personal in the end ngl

[@Faelandaea]

I use Garuda and am happy with it. I wanted badly to try Nobara but it simply doesn’t work after doing updates. Garuda has been stable so far, is easy to use, and has everything you could possibly need for gaming preinstalled. I keep hearing people say stuff like “Arch is hard”, but I’m a complete newbie to Linux and find Garuda easier to use than any other distro I’ve tried (except Mint. Mint is also easy for me at least). Like he said, though, use whatever works best for you. I’m only putting my experience so as to contribute to the feedback.

[@nishanthadda8824]

@@Faelandaea after updates as?Also I hear bad things about arch based distros like manjaro and garuda being "too bloated" and holding back true arch experience.

[@linuxnext]

I would "suggest" xero linux or for terminal experience use endeavor os for an arch based distro xerolinux.xyz/ endeavouros.com/

[@nishanthadda8824]

@@linuxnext I installed Garuda OS and when I launch steam runtime,steam native is launched as guessing from name in staus bar of fhe steam window.Is it a problem?

[@mistergutsy82]

I'm a Linux virgin, been using Windows since Windows 98 SE. The problem I have with Linux is learning how to use it, I am a gamer and want all my games on Steam to work on Linux without issues. my GPU is 6900 XT Limited Black and know that AMD is slow at releasing drivers for Linux. The current version for Linux drivers are from Feb 16 2024.

[@linuxnext]

mmm yes and no, mesa has a feature release cycle every 3 months but they do bug fixes once every 2 weeks, what distro are you using? if your on arch you'll get the latest mesa releases when they arrive but on something like fedora or bazzite they can take longer if you want the latest releases you should be using mesa git, a distro like nobara will use mesa git, gloriouseggroll updates mesa git every couple of weeks docs.mesa3d.org/releasing.html#schedule

[@mikesymanzig6812]

Nobara is not bad, good for gaming, a lot pre-installed packages. But for me (also for gaming) is Solus (4.5) the better choice (not bloated, recent Kernel, latest Mesa, etc).

[@Harb000]

Solus is good but as far as multi monitor support gpu and integrated graphics not so good.

[@linuxnext]

@Harb000 im guessing this is using budgie desktop? Or is this under kde plasma? What hardware aswell?

[@Harb000]

gtx 1600 super it's on kde to solus is the only distro that i have tried so far that doesn't work when i plug my second monitor hdmi to my pc.

[@Harb000]

1660 sorry.

[@linuxnext]

Hmm i see, thanks for the information!

[@PropaneWP]

I think a lot of gamers would like to see gaming related benchmarks of different distros with side-by-side comparisons. FPS, frame rate stability, load times, etc. I've yet to see anyone actually doing a performance comparison like that. If it already exists, I'd be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.

[@linuxnext]

I think its because every distro is the same for performance, they all use the same kernel and mesa drivers for amd, and then nvidia your using the same proprietary drivers across those distros so that also doesn't change performance that much. The only difference for nobara is that it uses mesa git which is just a bleeding edge build of mesa instead of using the stable point release like everyone else

[@PropaneWP]

@@linuxnext I was watching Linux Game Cast (the 'Linux Beats Windows 11 In Gaming' episode) here on KZbin and the were showing some benchmarks apparently done by a German site. They didn't link a source, so I can't check it myself, but apparently Nobara had better performance than for example Pop!_OS in some games. For example, Cyberpunk 2077 had an 89,6 fps average on Nobara, while for Pop!_OS it was 72,7. In other games, the performance disparity was much tighter. I don't really want to draw any conclusions solely based on that limited data, so I've been hoping to see some additional testing. I'm relatively new to Linux, so I don't really know how many performance-altering factors exists from distro to distro, so thanks for shedding some light on that. I imagine other new linux gamers might be curious about this as well.

[@linuxnext]

@@PropaneWP yes, nobara also has some patches applied to the kernel from the zen kernel which is used on arch, this can improve the cpu side of gaming + with mesa git you get the most recent patches from developers. Overall I don't notice much difference as I'm usually just focusing on playing the game but i may create a video as i do have enough storage to install multiple distros

[@rayenouni5222]

please drop wallpaper link

[@linuxnext]

twitter.com/artpaji/status/1735726513264492565?t=xKcQ4PnTm_2M2TseFXV1bg&s=19

[@jaguarholly7156]

I just installed Nobara and nothing works 😢. Discord amd all my games open, but then close immediately. Its awful

[@linuxnext]

Do some updates, do sudo dnf autoremove, What hardware specifically?

[@jaguarholly7156]

@@linuxnext im not a tech guy. I just despise the way windows and apple operate and swore id never use them on another device. So I've fot a new laptop and put Nobara on it and realized i jumped into the pool without knowing how to swim. So please forgive my inexperience. Idk what sudo dnf auto remove is. The laptop is a lenovo with "amd ryzen 5000 series 5" and "amd radeon graphics" advertised on it. Im not totally sure what that means. But hopefully you do 😅. Any help at all you could offers would be appreciated like water in a desert. Basically a bunch of apps and games will open when i click em, then like 2 seconds later they close. I updated the system, did everything it recommended and restarted it, but i still get the same problems. Even discord does this and i thought this distro came with it ready to go. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this.

[@linuxnext]

@@jaguarholly7156 sudo dnf autoremove checks for unneeded packages in your distro and will remove them for you. That's interesting that that happens when you have probs the best configuration for a laptop to run linux on. I would do the autoremove command in your terminal, restart and see if anything changes, if not i would suggest installing a distro like pop os as they have great support for laptops as they manufacture laptops with that hardware your using. Good luck!

[@jaguarholly7156]

@@linuxnext thanks heaps for taking the time to reply man. I'll try that. I also got some help on my disros discord and i got most stuff i want to use up and running. The Linux community it awesome and im glad to be a part of it now 😀

[@louisfifteen]

yeah I tried it yesterday. It froze on me several times so I ditched it. Every time I wanted to change something it froze and I had to wait a minute before I could go on.

[@linuxnext]

Are you using nvidia?

[@louisfifteen]

@@linuxnext Yes, RTX 4070 12 gb

[@linuxnext]

Did you test x11? Wayland is used by default and that may cause issues

[@louisfifteen]

@@linuxnext Oh man, why didnt I think of that. Yes it was on Wayland. I will give it another go later. Thanks for the advice.

[@csh9853]

thats great but they dont have a torrent so i cant install it. so whats the next best distro that has a torrent ?

[@linuxnext]

Endeavour os i guess, not many other distros provide that

[@csh9853]

@@linuxnext actually a lot of distros provide a torrent but im trying out mageia 9 right now but if it doesnt play steam well ill look intoendevour or linux mint lmde. rthanks for the reply. 👍

[@GainingDespair]

Installed, granted I failed a lot with check sum before ultimately just clicking start Nobara instead of test.

[@linuxnext]

Whats your hardware by the way?

[@GainingDespair]

@@linuxnext 7600 3060ti 32gb ram I ended up switching to Zorin, this one was giving me random issues, and kept hard freezing on me. Some restarts it would ask for my pass, others it wouldn't. Than I would get some black screens, idk the cause but I decided to try something else. I have some experience with Linux, used it for a few years on a old PC but never my main system.

[@linuxnext]

@GainingDespair thats why i asked as nvidia has problems under wayland, wayland is used by default on nobara when you first install it, the password is probs the kwallet which tries to use encrypted passwords for your apps which you can disable in the kde settings, all that was needed for nobara was on the login page to select x11 plasma instead of plasma wayland and i think the majority of your problems would have been solved until nvidia steps up their game with wayland support Zorin should be fine as its up to 17 now so you have the majority of new packages installed and gaming wont be a problem under that as you use nvidia and zorin uses x11 im pretty sure

[@GainingDespair]

@@linuxnext I was looking into any updates on Linux support for D2 and I recognized that icon lol. Seen the reddit comment, but very true enough is enough.

[@lorenzomarchese12]

i try so hard to like kde, it would probably be better experience with nvidia, but i love gnome.

[@linuxnext]

And what are you running right now?

[@lorenzomarchese12]

@@linuxnexti recently come back to Nobara 39 (gnome-nvidia version), stuck on x11, some bugs that amd doesn't have.. maybe i'll just sell my nvidia workstation and buy a full amd laptop if i find one. Idk Nvidia is late and slow, and open source drivers are not coming in the near future.

[@linuxnext]

@@lorenzomarchese12 i see, yeah i have a rtx 2060 and a rx 6700, there is a clear difference with kde plasma under amd vs nvidia especially under wayland. The experience is so smooth and fast under plasma on amd. while under nvidia i did have quite a couple of weird issues like opening plasma applications can be quirky and games run weirdly under wayland. The nvk drivers like you said aren't coming anytime soon but i would wait for the nvidia 550 driver as this driver is supposed to fix a ton of problems with Nvidia under wayland and other improvements

[@zine_eddinex24]

✅

[@dealzia]

Having nvidia black screen issues

[@linuxnext]

make sure your using x11, to use x11 logout to the login manager, bottom left, plasma(x11) wait for 560 driver to arrive this month then switch back to wayland when you have that driver installed

[@sasham4073]

i tried nobara 36 some time ago.. and it was great! now i have nobara 39 and it sucks:( freezes.. crashes.. black screens.. horrible gaming performance..

[@linuxnext]

Whats your hardware?

[@sasham4073]

@@linuxnext i7 + gtx1080 laptop

[@linuxnext]

@@sasham4073 and you have tried using just x11 under nobara to see how that goes?

[@sasham4073]

@@linuxnext less issues with x11 but still not as smooth as before

[@linuxnext]

@@sasham4073 hmm was it because you were running gnome before 39 or were you running kde plasma on 36?

[@Wither_Strike]

Ok, but can it run minecraft? Thats not even a joke, minecraft is horribly unoptimized to the point that with 4 different performance enhancing mods (designed to be used together) im still using 100% gpu and getting 80 fps while idle on the steam deck, which is my current setup because reasons

[@linuxnext]

I mean yeah, you're using a steamdeck which is pretty low end hardware for a pc, minecraft with shaders and mods runs pretty alright under a rx 6700 10gb, not amazing but it works

[@RedSaint83]

I'm not on Nobara, but I just went on flathub, found prism launcher, installed that, logged into my microsoft account through the launcher, then ran a modpack - easy.

[@Deezter16]

it"s NobAra, not Nobora...

[@GainingDespair]

I'm pretty sold the only thing I will miss is Destiny 2 ... it's really the only game I play ... and I have nearly 3k hours but they refuse to support Linux. I am tired of windows crap like really tired of it.

[@linuxnext]

Yeah, its a huge rip they dont care about linux, they even have a native port they maintained for google stadia but whatever. You can go to the reddit feedback post that was made a while back to put your thoughts on the matter www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/s/c7Lgq03iaC Idk why they continue to ignore bringing support and even then its not rlly support as valve will take care of the game with proton. All they have to do is enable the anticheat to not flag us as a cheater

[@GainingDespair]

@@linuxnext The game works on Linux, it worked before they moved to battle eye, and I believe it was playable on Linux under their in house anti-cheat but folks would occasionally get banned. The game is fully compatible however even the anti-cheat natively supports Linux, they just refuse to enable it stating only a fraction of players will use Linux, yet Linux players account for over 90% of error codes/support tickets in games that offer support.

[@zoghunter82318]

This was like listening to a one hour long sentence...

[@linuxnext]

:)

[@kingmasterlord]

i will never not hear 'Dabura'

[@JoshuaT902]

Going to Fedora -> Debian testing -> Opensuse -> Nobara. Why all this distrohoping in just one month. You went from Fedora to Nobara which is basically Fedora but bloated.

[@linuxnext]

It's fascinating to see what other distros offer with updates, I'm running arch now sooo :>

[@nsawatchlistbait289]

So this is the one distro for the average Joe

[@linuxnext]

It can be if you have the right hardware or some knowledge of how to switch to x11 if you're on Nvidia

[@itsL0F1]

Valorant don't work unfortunately :/

[@linuxnext]

Yep

[@user-fd3xn2vx4c]

righ meow

[@gamer8622]

This video might be fantastic but listening to say "pacifically" instead of specifically stressed me tf out

[@linuxnext]

😭😭😭

[@Faelandaea]

Hate to say it but honestly ANY other distro is far better for gaming for my setup. Nobara installs on my setup but after doing updates, it boots only to a black screen. I have reproduced this multiple times. I thought it was just my PC, so I had two different friends try it on their machines. They also get black screens after updating Nobara, therefore I couldn’t fathom recommending this distro to anyone with a straight face. Sure, it installs just fine initially, but the moment you do the first reboot after doing the initial updates .. bye bye, Nobara.

[@linuxnext]

And then i have the opposite result of running nobara for over a year with nvidia, updating it regularly, running my servers and software just fine with some issues but i can fix them easily as i researched what to do in certain situations. Im not running it on my main anymore as i prefer opensuse tumbleweed as i dont want to use fedora/fedora based distros anymore but iv had problems with nobara + nvidia in the past like updating and the nvidia drivers decide to not work anymore and have to reinstall them. Linux can be weird sometimes with such things like nvidia, i would say tho arch based distros and distros like debian, linux mint or pop os etc handle nvidia better in most cases

[@Faelandaea]

@@linuxnext yeah that is so odd. I wish I knew what was causing this for myself and my two friends. One buddy tried this on a desktop and got the black screen issue after updating. For me I try to put Linux distros on a laptop that I take with me on the road as a truck driver (HP Omen gaming laptop that I hate the heck out of and want to replace anyway). Due to having an Nvidia card in the machine I had to use Nobara-39-KDE-Nvidia-2023-12-30.iso - I wonder if it is just that specific version? I might have to have a go at another version later this week.

[@linuxnext]

@@Faelandaea yeah its possible, you can grab the regular iso and install the drivers after installing, its called like nvidia driver installer or something. Nobara/linux will use nouveau drivers which works fine for very minimal use until you install the proprietary drivers Good luck!

[@dim3nt0]

just say gnome like a normal person. nice distro, sure, ultimate for gamers, probably, but beginers stay away.. this is the experience of someone who has some experience with linux but trying to go nubara from win bcos gaming(no exotic hardware, 5700x, 6600xt). begginers approach is to listen to instructions so lets go. use etcher to make usb, usb doesnt work, try again and nothing bcos etcher is huge pos. so i try dd, also usb fails. so back to windows and rufus doesnt disapoint. boots but unknown issue, googling says disable secure boot. after bios, install finishes but for some reason every boot is halted and sometimes takes 4 minutes and sometimes doesnt boot at all. i wont look at logs, begginers dont even know theres logs. but f it, lets try stuff. you look how to install stuff on linux but nobara is not your average linux, its redhat and most tutorials and commands wont work here.. delete and go back to win or mint or whatever. IF a gamer installs nobara and it works fine and installs steam and doesnt need anything else it will be great i guess. didnt work for me.

[@linuxnext]

Ok well, the gnome you're thinking of is the statue you find in a garden, the gnome I'm pronouncing is a desktop environment, 2 different things. The devs of gnome even say it is pronounced the way i pronounced it in the video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJqok4aqoMmhas0si=DbXm-17vN3etgy20 If you're having issues with rufus and etcher then it seems your usb stick might be the problem, iv installed nobara on 3 different computers ranging from a rx 6700 to a rtx 2060, to even my 2015 intel laptop and they all installed nobara perfectly fine. Make sure secure boot is off for nobara as this is required Reformat your usb stick or grab a new one If all else fails then try a different distro or stay on windows Also redhat is one of the big leaders in the linux space and is very easy to find commands as nobara is based on fedora so there is plenty of documentation on fedoras website

[@ricardofranco4114]

Arch is the ultimate gaming distro. 2nd would be debian. Forget about every other distro. Arch is great for bleading edge ! debian would be for ultimate stability. Forget about all other distros ! But honestly, I'd choose debian for its the only distro that's as stable as Windows 10. But Windows 10 sucks with its moto, forced apps, telemetry, and lack of customization. Fuck 11. My grandmother can break Arch, ubuntu, manjaro, pop os, elementary os... nothings as stable as debian ! Everything besides debian will break even by just updating ! Trust me I've been using linux for over 10 years. Also if you're new fuck everything besides steam, trust the system ! Steam is the only stable way of gaming on Linux, well for at least the hard-core gamers ! GG

[@smiluo]

Sucks that valorant doesn't work on Linux

[@linuxnext]

True

[@VashStarwind]

Lol I was under the impression you knew what you were talking about, until you started playing Halo Infinite.. that game sucks. The OG halos are the only good halos

[@linuxnext]

I show halo infinite because of the development work it has had under proton and amd not because its a better game, of course the older halos are better

[@ReLoneR]

Nah nah nah nah nah, best gaming distro is windows, someone mislead you

[@linuxnext]

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@doping-net]

Не стыдно советовать гавно?

[@linuxnext]

Aren't you ashamed of commenting like that? Do you talk to your mother like that hm?