Linux distro Nobara 42 ships with Brave by default and shifts to rolling release model

First I hear about them, and since Brave is the default browser I know I don't want to know more. Smooth!

Gross.

well, at least they provided some rationale for switching browsers. still, it's good thing we have bazzite.

Damn, not sure I'm a fan of any of this. I left Arch because I didn't want to be on Rolling release any more, and really liked what Nobara was offering for the out of the box experience.

Brave is super sketchy, and not sure about putting in yet another thing to handle updates (replacing plasma-discover and gnome-software).

I'm wondering if its worth forking it to remove some of these changes.

At least they disable the monetization features of Brave but making stupid Google Meet such a hard requirement to compromise of all ethics? WTF?

Brave? Yeah...nope

Don't know about brave, but rolling release is much better

The rolling release thing isn't for me, but I get why that model might appeal. Brave, though? Why?

Does the rolling release model mean Nobara is based on Fedora Rawhide now?

Edit: I found the answer from the developer on Reddit.

the VERSION updates are rolling. (N41->N42->N43+)

nothing is changing in the update process. we still do a monthly snapshot of fedora and provide that to users. we are -not- using rawhide.

the "rolling" simply means when its time to go 42->43 you'll receive those updates as standard package updates without needing to do any specific commands/changes.

The partial unannounced update broke my installation, which is why I finally ditched Nobara for Bluefin

I'll definitely uninstall brave but it makes sense why they chose it. People crying over it are being dumb. Hopefully when Firefox fixes its crashing issue it can go back to the default.

Rolling release? Not expecting this lol noice with brave by default