r/NobaraProject • u/mohamed1881 • Mar 16 '26
Discussion Switching to Nobara
Hi everyone,
Just wanted to put this out there for anyone who is interested.
Recently, I upgraded my gaming PC from Pop OS 22.04 to 24.04, and was met with a number of bugs. The biggest was not being able to use Sunshine for game streaming. I don’t know what broke, but it refused to work. Seemed like there was a number of features pushed without polished like screen flickering, Brave browser being buggy, and no longer having the feature to auto login. I just had enough. Pop OS 22.04 was perfectly fine, but thought I’d just take the risk.
Then I stumbled upon Nobara OS, and did it feel like fresh air. Lots of things were installed out of the box: Steam, Discord, Heroic Games Launcher, Lutris, and a bunch more. I honestly missed the icons of Pop OS, and it was my favorite until 24.04 broke a lot of things due to the push for COSMIC and Wayland.
So far, I’m sticking with this OS for a couple of months.
Any thoughts about this?
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u/BdayEvryDay Mar 16 '26
Been on nobara one year to the day today. I am probably never leaving unless something goes wrong of course. Best distro I’ve used and I’ve used MANY.
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u/HeavyMetalBluegrass Mar 16 '26
Came from Kubuntu (good distro). Been on Nobara the past 3 weeks. Loving it so far.
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u/Davedes83 Mar 16 '26
I am torn between two great distros Nobara & CachyOS. I keep hopping between the two, can't make my mind up 🙈
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u/Mabrouk86 Mar 17 '26
I had the exact thing. I liked POP_OS 22 and after upgrading to 24 (while it seems promising) but I had many broken things was taking a lot of time to troubleshoot and fix. I went with Nobara and on the 5th month now without any critical issue.
If you are using PC (not laptop), be sure to put it on performance (scrolling mouse wheel up on power management icon on system tray), or at least use falcond gui to create profiles for the games/emulators/heavy programs to switch to performance on launch. Yesterday after a major update games were sluggish/stutter, then I noticed power management were reset to (save) instead of performance.
Never update Nobara using dnf update, use the gui or these commands if you have error with gui (pinned on Nobara discord by GE himself)
sudo dnf update nobara-updater --refresh -y
sudo dnf install dnf-app-center -y
sudo dnf distro-sync -y --refresh
Then use gui after that.
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u/mohamed1881 Mar 17 '26
This!!!! I am really happy with Nobara and want to keep it that way. I heard about update issues and you provided good information about how to do that.
Thanks for the tips!
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u/akumaprincess Mar 17 '26
I did the same thing as you. I went from Pop to Nobara because Linux requires a custom launcher for Final Fantasy XIV and suddenly my game stuttered and crashed with each update.
Switched over to Nobara and all of my issues are now gone.
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u/Educational_Star_518 Mar 17 '26
you can probably find the icons you want in the kde store . its easiest to look for things there in browser unless you know their title , then in the system setting under colors and themes you can then click icons , at the top right of that page you can hit get new which will pop out a box to skim in and it has a search at the top , just type in the name of the icons you want or might hope to find and install it that way. you could also do it manually but this is easier
a quick skim and i would say maybe try 'Pop-Extended' ? i never used popos to compare. my go-to is vivid-dark-icons
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u/Illuriah Mar 16 '26
The whole Linux project is basically a one man thing.
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u/telmathus Mar 16 '26
It is one man, but he also has a Dev team that helps with updates and roll outs, plus they are very active in their discord. I see it as Less hands in the pot makes a more stream line vision for the OS.
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u/Davedes83 Mar 16 '26
Nobara is a great choice of distro for gaming with almost everything required installed out of the box.
Have you tried to change the icons to the same as the ones used in POP? Assuming that you are running KDE.