I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I cannot afford to buy games and bottles is a God send at that. Now I realized that I had not logged into my windows partition in over 6 months. So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows( I have a 512 gb ssd so it was a lot) and today after everything was setup, the os took only around 20gb minus the games. Never felt happier.
Only one maintainer. If he quits the project, it will leave many many users without maintenance updates
Slow updates. Maintaining a distro is a lot of work, and especially major updates can take many many months.
Very insecure. It disables SELinux for example.
Many tweaks that might make the OS less reliable.
And much more…
I absolutely respect GE’s work, but for one person, it’s just impossible/ hard to keep it secure and well working.
What else would I recommend?
Bazzite (if you use your PC only for gaming) or the various other images from universal-blue.org
Why?
They also come with QoL changes by default, just like Nobara
They are actually secure because they maintain themselves automatically without any input. If a update comes from Fedora, it takes less than a few hours to also land on uBlue
It’s reproducible. Every Bazzite install for example is the exact same. If one user has a bug due to a modification from Bazzite, the dev will have it too and can just fix it easily.
Well it works perfectly to me. I dont need updates every 24h , I just wants all codecs preinstalled for Davinci and Reaper, and games to work out of the box, and I get all that with Nobara. If the dev abandon it I’ll switch to something else but its currently up to date with fedora and well maintained.
I would advise against Nobara. Why?
What else would I recommend? Bazzite (if you use your PC only for gaming) or the various other images from universal-blue.org
Why?
Well it works perfectly to me. I dont need updates every 24h , I just wants all codecs preinstalled for Davinci and Reaper, and games to work out of the box, and I get all that with Nobara. If the dev abandon it I’ll switch to something else but its currently up to date with fedora and well maintained.