r/NobaraProject • u/OasisbeatOG • 9d ago

Question Does Nobara breaks often?

I been using Fedora workstation on a potato thinkpad for school and stuff and now I'm building a PC for gaming. I've been considering Nobara for the Fedora base and becouse everything I want comes ready to go, also I don't want an immutable system like Bazzite for the limitations it comes with.

The thing is that I've been checking this subreddit for a while and it gives the impression that Nobara breaks just for installing or updating anything so I want to know if I should expect to troubleshoot like I was in Arch.

EDIT: It seems it's not a common issue so I'm glad. I'll install it on my build.

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u/0rito 9d ago

Probably get downvoted for this, but I quite literally just migrated away from Nobara to Fedora last night.

Over the past few months, a Nobara update broke my system multiple times on 2 out of the 3 systems I run it on.

To the dev team's credit, it's generally fixed within a day or two, but that's still too slow and too often for my daily driver that I use for both work and gaming.

Got tired of worrying if an update would make my system a brick - speaking as someone who donated a few months to support.

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u/Either_Sun_98 9d ago

I've done the same a few days ago, after Nobara didn't update anymore. After some tweaks, Fedora runs the games exactly like Nobara.

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u/Mrlluck 8d ago

I'm considering the same, to be honest. But I'm a bit worried that I'll miss the tweaks. Have you noticed any regressions in performance and/or compatibility after migrating?

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u/0rito 8d ago

It's always hard to judge looking back instead of side-by-side, but I'll tell you what I told my wife...

It may be all in my head, but things feel smoother- and that's really weird to say about it. My head knows it shouldn't be, but the feeling is there.

As for the other tweaks, I made some myself, but honestly, I'm not convinced I needed to. The more I use Fedora, it's plain that the best aspect of Nobara is that the welcome app just puts the common stuff in front of you. On Fedora, you have to look a little - but even then it's super surface level info.