2y ago

Why I Switched to Nobara Linux, and Why You Should Too

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I wrote an article on my switch to the gaming focused Linux distro, coming from Windows 11 and thought you all might enjoy the journey.

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2y ago

Why I Switched to Nobara Linux, and Why You Should Too

open.substack.com /pub/imakethingsforu/p/why-i-switched-to-nobara-linux-and

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I fucking hate those titles and they make me automatically ignore them. who the fuck cares what you did Nathan and who the fuck are you that you tell me what I should or shouldn't do?
- Because Nathan switched to Linux and according to the terms and conditions you need to announce that to the world.
- It's just another human being wanting to communicate to others something they found interesting and enguaging, you don't need to read it (indeed you probabally didn't since you are ignoring these sort of posts, which is totally fine and your own decision). Your preference not to read these sort of titles does not mean other peeople do not want to, or, in fact, that those same people are interested reading your views on the topic - live and let live, just don't be rude about it.
  
  This is not a way to communicate, this is a click bait by creating fomo by saying "look at me, I'm using this and that and you must use it as well because everyone does and you're missing out" Fuck that shit
- But if you don't do it, they manipulated you too by NOT making what they say. It's hard to be an independent individual sometimes, right?!
- You wouldn't be a Linux user if you wouldn't preach your distro of choice harder than any Mormon, Jehovah's Witness or influencer would ever sell their shit.
Nobara seems fine for fedora, but if you want to try Arch, then Garuda is for gaming use, I personally use EndeavourOS.
Linux is a trip of making one change and bricking your system, easily rolled back.
- What changes does Garuda make that aren't good for general use?
  
  His aim was gaming use, which is why I recommended Garuda for it.
  With EndeavourOS you have to tinker a bit more with the OS to get everything compatible with gaming.
Not switching to nobara unless it gets a cool distro icon in neofetch.
- struggling with Nvidia drivers
  Depends on your hardware age, and whether or not you use proprietary drivers. Some distros handle it auto-magically for you so you don't really need to do anything and it just works.
  ultra fast GPU access to storage
  For the time being, nothing on PC actually requires this, or uses it optionally for any perceived I provment in fidelity. Its super cool tech though, looking forward to this in the future.
  HDR
  Fair point, it is actively being worked on by a lot of big organizations and developers, so it will get better. Last I checked Window's support of it isn't incredible, but its better than the nothing Linux has at the moment.
  
  Hdr has never been a problem for me because I use a cheap monitor from 2009
  
  The wall most people have is that they dont have a capable monitor to use it well (miniled with fald or oled) both fairly expensive.
  There are tips and tricks to get some applications working with auto hdr that was never designed to work with HDR (e.g you can get switch emulation with HDR with a name hack)
- Nvidia drivers are alright these days but otherwise yeah. Most games are playable on Linux at this point with the huge exception of most online games with any anti cheat.
  
  or let's multibox this game that works perfectly fine and ... oh no, a compatibility layer actually adds overhead and my CPU is struggling.
  at least I can dual boot with the bios menu instead of infecting my Linux install.
- HDR is the big one for me. Been waiting so long for that to come. Even for just video play back.
Why I switched to Garuda Linux on my gaming PC and Why You Should Too: it's awesome, and if you wanna be MegaChad like me, do it.

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