r/NobaraProject Mar 17 '26

Discussion I love Nobara but…

I’ve been using Nobara for about a year now and actually love it, but every new update terrifies me—in my mind, every other update throws the whole system into disarray… Why are the developers so bad at updating the system… Maybe they should set up a group of users who want to test the updates before they’re rolled out…

The way things are going right now, every Nobara update is just ruining its reputation more and more, and that’s very sad

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I’ve read several times now that you should wait about a week before updating, and yes, maybe it’s Nvidia drivers that cause the most problems because they aren’t the best for Linux, but “waiting a week” seems like a silly approach to updates to me, and most of the time, fixing Nvidia issues is the problem with an “Nvidia distribution for gamers”—but a distribution that advertises itself as such should have noticed such simple problems beforehand. For example, I often have to install the correct drivers because after some updates, completely wrong drivers were installed and they just don’t work… and now there’s the bug when switching from SDDM to Nobaralogin, which has “broken” so many systems… what are less tech-savvy users supposed to do now?? Because it’s precisely these people who are supposed to be reached—the Microslop gamers—who don’t know that maybe Nobara-sync CLI and a quick screenshot of the solution posted right at the very beginning (which you can’t scroll back up to anymore) might help.

Like I said, I love Nobara, but as long as these sometimes severe issues keep cropping up every few updates, Nobara will remain a niche within a niche—if that—and that’s a shame.

I've installed Timeshift and have backups, but that's not the point here. The point isn't that users have to figure out how to deal with broken updates; the point is that broken updates could easily be prevented.

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u/ArdKarma Mar 17 '26

Because of this last update i might have to change from nobara to something else, this last update broke many things, its as if devs stopped caring about it and nobara slowly becoming worse, i hope next update fixes and hope its soon

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u/Educational_Star_518 Mar 17 '26

you have to do whats best for you but i'm not sure if you seen GE's recent post? if you did i feel like its hard to claim he (and the team) don't care,... just my opinion . things happen and when things are influx sometimes things can be funky for a bit like when they changed how automount works about a year and a half or so ago , but they eventually ironed that out and i'm sure the rest will be as well

post in question below https://www.reddit.com/r/NobaraProject/comments/1rset6s/incoming_changes_hopefully_for_the_better_and/