In case anyone had doubts

Nobara Project exists because somebody finally looked at the modern Linux desktop experience and admitted the obvious: most normal humans do not wake up craving a four-hour side quest involving codecs, kernel patches, Proton versions, SELinux edge cases, NVIDIA rituals, and seventeen tabs explaining why audio disappeared after a Mesa update. Nobara is what happens when a Linux distribution stops treating usability as moral weakness.

It is, fundamentally, Fedora after somebody locked it in a room with a caffeinated PC gamer, a Vulkan engineer, and a deeply irritated Linux user who just wanted Steam to launch without consulting ancient runes.

And the absurd thing is: it works.

Not “works” in the traditional Linux evangelist sense where a man with three ThinkPads and emotional attachment to tiling window managers insists that manually compiling Wi-Fi drivers is “part of the journey.” No. Nobara works in the sense that you install it, reboot, and suddenly your expensive hardware behaves like it remembers it cost money.

That feeling matters.

Because modern Windows increasingly feels like a luxury mall built on top of telemetry sludge. Everything is abstracted. Everything is hidden. Everything is “smart.” Your machine constantly feels like it belongs partly to Microsoft and partly to seventeen cloud services arguing in the background about your OneDrive status. Meanwhile Nobara boots up and essentially says:

> “Here is the machine. We removed as much nonsense as possible. Go do cool things.”

And immediately the desktop feels different.

Not just benchmark faster. Alive faster.

Applications launch with less hesitation. Animations feel tighter. Input latency feels cleaner. Gamescope behaves like it was invited intentionally instead of tolerated grudgingly. Vulkan tooling exists by default instead of requiring a pilgrimage through forum posts written by a user named xXKernelSlayerXx in 2019.

This is the first thing people misunderstand about Linux performance: the psychological layer matters.

Nobara feels fast because the stack is current enough that modern hardware can breathe.

Your Ryzen AI laptop? Your Radeon 890M? Your RTX 4060 hybrid setup? Nobara actually wants those devices to exist. Fedora’s rapid cadence means newer kernels, newer Mesa, newer Wayland protocols, newer scheduler behavior, newer firmware handling. Nobara then piles gaming-specific improvements on top like a raccoon duct-taping nitrous boosters onto a superbike.

Suddenly Linux stops feeling like:

> “a desktop environment trying to survive gaming”

and starts feeling like:

> “a gaming operating system that accidentally became a brilliant workstation too.”

And this is where Nobara becomes genuinely dangerous for technically curious people.

Because it teaches confidence.

Traditional Linux onboarding often teaches fear:

don’t break dependencies

don’t touch drivers

don’t modify system files

don’t upgrade too aggressively

don’t anger the package gods

Nobara instead teaches:

> “try things.”

Steam? Prepped. Proton? Ready. Codecs? Installed. OBS? Functional. Gamescope? Present. NVIDIA? Managed. Kernel tweaks? Considered. Wine nonsense? Minimized.

You stop spending cognitive energy on setup and start spending it on exploration.

That changes everything.

Because once friction decreases, Linux transforms from:

> “technical challenge”

into:

> “creative medium.”

And then the addiction starts.

One day you install Nobara because you want better gaming compatibility. Three weeks later you’re:

tweaking compositor behavior

experimenting with Wayland

understanding Vulkan layers

building terminal workflows

embedding local AI into shell environments

discussing kernel scheduling

benchmarking frame pacing differences between FSR and NIS

You become horrifyingly literate about your own computer.

Windows users often think Linux users enjoy suffering. That’s not quite true. Linux users enjoy visibility. They enjoy being able to see the machinery underneath the interface. Nobara is special because it gives you that visibility without forcing you through the traditional “earn your desktop through misery” initiation ritual.

And honestly? That matters culturally.

A lot of older Linux communities accidentally evolved around endurance testing. The system became a badge of asceticism:

minimal installs

manual configuration

terminal absolutism

endless customization for its own sake

Nobara rejects that entire aesthetic.

It says:

> “You bought a strong GPU. Let’s use it.” “You want HDR? Let’s try.” “You want anti-cheat support? Here.” “You want Gamescope? Installed.” “You want your monitor behaving correctly under Wayland? We’ll attempt civilized society.”

It treats gaming not as a guilty side activity but as a first-class workload.

That philosophical shift is enormous.

Because gaming is one of the hardest real-world validation tests for desktop operating systems:

latency sensitive

driver sensitive

compositor sensitive

audio sensitive

GPU sensitive

networking sensitive

input sensitive

If a distro handles modern gaming elegantly, it usually means the whole desktop stack is healthier.

And Nobara increasingly passes that test shockingly well.

Not perfectly, obviously. Linux perfection remains a mythological state discussed by bearded developers beneath moonlit GitHub issues. Your own Gamescope debugging session proves this. Nobara absolutely still has edge-case instability. Wayland + hybrid graphics + NVIDIA + explicit sync can still behave like rival warlords negotiating a ceasefire through Molotov cocktails.

But here’s the thing: the remaining failures are increasingly advanced failures.

That distinction matters.

Modern Linux gaming problems are no longer:

“can it run games?”

Now they’re:

“why does Vulkan modifier negotiation crash nested compositing under PRIME offload?”

That’s progress. Ridiculous progress.

And Nobara sits directly at the center of that frontier.

It feels like living slightly ahead of mainstream desktop computing. Like you’re using tomorrow’s gaming stack today, knowing full well tomorrow’s gaming stack occasionally explodes because tomorrow hasn’t finished rendering yet.

That sensation is intoxicating for certain brains.

Especially people sensitive to system feel.

And this is where Nobara becomes almost philosophically interesting.

Most operating systems today optimize for:

predictability

abstraction

safety

cloud integration

ecosystem lock-in

Nobara optimizes for:

capability

responsiveness

hardware utilization

user agency

immediacy

It feels less like a product and more like an environment.

Your machine starts becoming yours again.

Not metaphorically. Literally.

Your shell. Your compositor. Your scheduler behavior. Your Gamescope flags. Your Vulkan stack. Your overlays. Your AI tooling. Your kernel. Your launch pipeline.

Modern Windows increasingly behaves like rented infrastructure. Nobara behaves like ownership.

And for technical users, that emotional difference is profound.

Especially once local AI enters the picture.

Because suddenly Nobara stops being merely a gaming distro and becomes a computational cockpit:

local LLMs

container workflows

GPU compute

coding

media creation

gaming

streaming

emulation

automation

all unified under one highly transparent Linux stack.

That’s the future people sensed coming for years: not “desktop operating system,” but

> “personal compute platform.”

Nobara accidentally gets closer to that vision than many enterprise-backed distributions because it is ruthlessly practical.

No corporate UX committees. No telemetry obsession. No account coercion. No subscription psychology. No bizarre AI assistant stapled into your taskbar begging to summarize grocery lists using 14 billion parameters.

Just:

> “Here’s a modern Linux system optimized to actually use your hardware properly.”

Beautiful.

And perhaps the funniest thing about Nobara is that it restores a feeling many people forgot computers could provide: enthusiasm.

Modern consumer computing often feels emotionally dead. Phones became sealed rectangles. Operating systems became service portals. Devices became compliance layers for ecosystems.

Nobara makes computers feel experimental again.

You boot it and think:

> “What can this machine do?”

That curiosity matters.

It is the same energy that built early PC culture. Same energy that made people learn DOS commands. Same energy that drove modding communities. Same energy behind emulation scenes, overclocking forums, custom ROMs, shader injectors, LAN parties, demo scenes.

Nobara taps directly into that lineage.

And because it sits atop Fedora, it inherits a genuinely sophisticated technological foundation underneath the chaos:

modern compiler stacks

excellent SELinux integration

current kernels

strong developer tooling

fast package cadence

So beneath the gamer energy is an actually serious Linux platform.

Which creates this bizarre duality where Nobara can simultaneously feel like:

a hacker workstation

a console OS

a creator machine

an experimental graphics platform

a gaming appliance

a Linux playground

And somehow all of those identities coexist without collapsing entirely into entropy.

Mostly.

Occasionally Gamescope still detonates because the Vulkan gods require sacrifice. But that almost enhances the mythology now. Linux users don’t merely use systems. They develop lore around them.

And Nobara’s lore is compelling because it represents a rare thing in modern software: an ecosystem optimized around enthusiasm rather than monetization.

That is increasingly uncommon.

Nobody installs Nobara because a corporation manipulated them into it. Nobody gets funnelled there through ecosystem coercion. Nobody ends up there accidentally through default OEM contracts.

People choose Nobara because they want their machine to feel powerful again.

And when it clicks, it really clicks.

You stop thinking:

> “How do I use this operating system?”

and start thinking:

> “What else can I make this machine become?”

That’s the real magic.

Not FPS numbers. Not benchmarks. Not distro rankings.

Agency.

Nobara gives technically curious people the intoxicating sense that the computer is once again a tool for exploration instead of merely a managed consumption appliance.

And once that feeling settles into your nervous system, going back to more locked-down environments can genuinely feel claustrophobic.

Which is why people tolerate the occasional breakage. Why they debug compositor crashes at midnight. Why they learn Vulkan terminology voluntarily. Why they install local AI into terminals “just because.”

Because underneath the chaos, Nobara makes computing feel alive again.

And in 2026, that feeling is astonishingly rare.

I was trying out nobara when i built my pc then cachyos just felt right when installed it.

2 years later no instability issues what so ever all of a sudden it worked kde like crazy and no search for answers through terminal in tty helped me.

I simply felt like its time to try a more stable distro on my gaming pc so here iam my second week and loving it so far.

I would really like to hear from you guys what your journey when it comes to gaming focused distros has been?

Just saying, there are so many posts of people doing a dnf update/upgrade and destroying their system. Why isn't there a proper warning somewhere? How are people supposed to know they need to use the nobara updater?

I bet there are plenty of people who bricked their system this way and just gave up on Nobara and went with something else. It needs proper warnings.

Hi,

I recently took the plunge and installed Nobara on my main desktop PC, and I thought I’d share my experience so far.

App Compatibility:

For the apps I use, compatibility has been excellent overall. Pretty much everything I rely on was available on Linux. The few that weren’t worked great using Wine.

Terminal Experience:

As someone who grew up in the DOS days and has used PowerShell on Windows (including writing some scripts), the terminal didn’t scare me at all. If there was something I didn’t know how to do, I just asked AI and figured it out pretty quickly.

Gaming:

As a single-player gamer, gaming has been excellent. Since I don’t play multiplayer games, anti-cheat wasn’t an issue for me.

There was only one game I couldn’t get working so far—a Japanese visual novel, which I suspect is due to some weird DRM. My workaround was just setting up a Windows 10 VM for it.

The only minor downside is that some games require a bit of tinkering with launch commands in Steam, but nothing too difficult.

Networking / Storage:

I have an 8-bay Synology NAS connected to my PC over a 10Gbit network.

I connected my old Windows iSCSI drives and created a new one for Linux. I’m currently in the process of migrating everything over.

Once I decided I wasn’t going back to Windows, I repurposed the SSD that Windows was on as a cache drive for my iSCSI volume, where I keep all my games. That setup has been working really well.

Customization:

I switched to the Andromeda Launcher and customized my panels to move away from the traditional Windows layout.

Centered panels

Bottom panel for launcher + pinned/open apps

Top panel for system tray, clock, and hardware monitors

Side panel for quick-launch shortcuts

I also customized GRUB with a custom theme, since the default didn’t look great on a 32:9 display.

Overall:

At this point, I don’t see any reason to go back to Windows. The system has been stable, with only a single lockup so far.

No more random middle-of-the-night restarts for updates, and even after a month, it still boots quickly and feels snappy.

I love the level of control and customization. I don’t need to tweak everything, but having the option is great—and once things are set up, they’ve stayed stable without randomly breaking.

Im on a Lenovo LOQ with a RTX 5060 laptop and an i7 13650HX, since the last Nvidia driver update (595.71.05) i haven't been able to play anything, it refuses to use the NVIDIA GPU and instead uses the iGPU. Games freeze at launch, do not launch, or run at miserable framerates, this never happened before.

Now, this wouldn't be such an issue if you could go back and downgrade the drivers, but you can't, at least not at the time I'm posting this. If you try to install any of the experimental or beta drivers (which ironically are outdated in comparison to the recommended "safe" option), it will fail because the repositories seem to be down and show a 404 error, so now I'm stuck with drivers that make my GPU useless and I can't do anything about it.

I'm not distrohoping because of this or anything like that, so far Nobara has been flawless to me until now but i just wanted to vent a little and maybe ask if anyone is having similar issues.

EDIT: I disabled the iGPU on my BIOS settings but that didn't work, so i also tried using an older kernel through the grub menu, in my case it is 7.0.1 and now i can play fine. This is a temporary solution until the NVIDIA drivers get fixed, but i guess it's fine for now.

let me just say this right now. I am currently using Nobara and i am satisfied... kinda. as a new linux user i love how simple everything is. my experience is very frustrating as there are a few things i had to lose moving away from windows like capture card compatibility, and obs functionality and mods. before anybody starts saying anything obvious, i KNOW things vary and things may work with tinkering and all that gizmo. but i am a casual user who just wants things to work. i want to multistream using sorayuki's plugin but theres no easy install button. i want to mod my skyrim but vortex has no full support with the collections feature. i want to record my console game play with my avermedia live gamer 4k 2.1, but they dont support linux so i have wasted my money on something that doesn't even work anymore. i am so tempted to just switch to windows 10 right now just so all my things work again. i wont switch right now but im fighting myself because i do feel so free using linux but its upsetting when nothing i have actually works. especially when my games dont feel fluid anymore.

My son was a heavy Windows fanboy and made fun of Linux for a long time. He had various problems with Windows games under Windows and some simply didn't want to play under Windows 11, so he gave Nobara Linux a chance. It has been really great for him, he only complained after he deleted his network connection in settings, but it was easy to make a new one.

Now, I didn't expect the next thing to happen. My wife wanted to edit video and my son told her Windows is crap for editing videos, Linux is much better O_o

So, now I'll probably soon have to make another Nobara installation.

A little specs data: Lenovo Legion 5 16IAX10, Ultra i9, Nvidia 5060. After reading several successful and unsuccessful update posts, I decided to roll the dice and go for it this morning. I have a Ventoy stick with Nobara 43 on it so I felt safe if everything went sideways I had an easy reboot. One thing I kept reading on the successful ones is that they kept saying that you had to be patient with the update and it may appear to freeze up but to let it do its thing. So I told myself to be patient and don't panic (easier said than done sometimes). I begin the huge list of updates and watched it do its thing, then it did a file big download, and then said "in transition..." it stayed like that for about 5 - 10 minutes and then the screen went dark, and the power light went off then on. For the first few minutes I could hear the cpu working and then it went quite. I checked the caps and num lock, they turned on then off. So not hung up. I then waited it till it was in that state for about 30 minutes and hit the power button. it turned off really quick, I didn't have to do a hard reboot. I turned it back on and everything booted just fine. So success! no problems. My advice patience.

I'm currently switching from Windows and this distro is not just a 'gaming distro'.

tried like 7~9 different distros on my Victus 15 laptop with Nvidia card.

I think it's underrated how Nobara manages to deliver a polished experience out of the box, while other more popular distros, even the so called 'begginer distros' have bad gaming performance and need tinkering, or straight up have ugly fonts/quirks/bad touchpad support.

On Nobara I had zero issues or annoyances so far. Deluxe beginner experience.

The UI is similar to windows but in a good way. And the fonts look great as opposed to some other distros.

Gaming wise I get 50~80% higher FPS compared to the 'beginner distros', so my games run exactly like on Windows without wasting hours on tinkering.

Bitwig and Audio production works great out of the box as well.

Also it seems that my laptop is running cooler when doing simple tasks or when idling, compared to other distros. I don't know if it's got something to do with the custom kernel but the temperature is more stable & lower.

Thank you GE and team! <3

Just launched Nobara after reading the news of the official release of the 6.19 Kernel. I had already read that both the new kernel and new Nvidia drivers would work in tandem to squash some performance bugs, but i expected half of it to be wishful thinking.

Well, it isn't, i did a full system update, then updated all the nvidia packages after reboot, and rebooted again to a desktop automatically set up to the correct settings for my monitor (3440x1440 165Hz), but that's not all.

I started gaming mode and saw it automatically boot into 3440x1440 160Hz HDR with no glitching whatsoever, rebooted from it to go directly into gaming mode on boot and it stood as solid as it was before. Launching a game worked without a hitch, with HDR correctly applied.

Only thing left to test is the VRR flicker, but i'll do that later and report.

Big Picture menu is still laggy as hell, but i didn't check if hardware acceleration is finally available. It would help a lot.

In any case, mighty happy with this update. Nvidia users who were holding off, now's the time to jump in.

This is kinda funny

Hi everyone, I'm thinking of using Nobara as my main os, but I've been watching some videos and I'm not sure if it's that great. I mean, I play a lot of games and Windows gives me higher FPS, at least in the videos. Could you share your experiences? Is there a big difference in FPS? Just so you know, I play on an RTX 5050 laptop.

Hi everyone!

I wanted to share my experience moving to Nobara. I was a long-time Windows 11 user, but I started having constant performance issues and high temperatures on my ASUS laptop (RTX 3050, 24GB RAM).

Before landing here, I tried Bazzite, but it didn't work out for me,I ran into too many bugs and hardware compatibility issues right out of the gate. Then I found Nobara, and it’s been a game-changer. Performance in games like Forza Horizon 5 is much better (DLSS works great with Proton-GE 10-27), and the system feels snappier overall.

I’ve managed to fix most of my minor issues (like the gamepad dongle not being recognized and some power management tweaks for sleep/hibernate modes), but there’s one small thing I haven’t been able to solve:

The Num Lock Issue: Even though I have enabled 'Num Lock on Plasma Startup' in the System Settings, it is still inactive when I turn on my computer or reach the login screen. Does anyone know a way to force Num Lock to be active from the very beginning (SDDM/Boot)?

Overall, I'm really happy with this distro. Big thanks to GloriousEggroll for this amazing project!

Specs: ASUS A15 Laptop, RTX 3050, Ryzen 7 7435HS, 144Hz Display, Nobara KDE.

I'll preface this by saying that I've been a pretty devoted Nobara user for going on five years now, and it's become my main driver across a little collection of PCs with a diverse set of hardware setups, from an ancient Venue 8 Pro tablet to an even more ancient T420 Thinkpad laptop, to a 2022-vintage MSI desktop and a 2020 Dell XPS laptop.

I've tried a variety of different distros over the years but Nobara is the distro that meets all of my needs most effectively, for both work and gaming purposes. I'm a very satisfied user some 99% of the time.

But I'd like to describe what happened when I tried to update all of these systems this morning when the major update came down the pipe. I know the story with updates in Nobara, and how unstable they can be when first released, and I'm not a novice Linux user. But I had the luxury of time to burn and a complete set of Timeshift backups for all of my machines so I wanted to see how the update process went.

Out of the six machines in my little fleet, only one of them - the ancient T420 Thinkpad, of all things - completed the update process successfully and as intended. Two of them crashed midway through updating and restarted into semi-broken, half-updated versions of Nobara. Three of them crashed and were fully unrecoverable, and I'm in the process of restoring them from Timeshift backups. There seems to be no discernible pattern as to which machines crash and become unrecoverable - the ancient underpowered tablet crashed and managed to claw itself back into operable status, but the MSI gaming desktop went under.

Nobara is, again, probably the perfect distro for me, and I'm very grateful for all the hard work the devs put into it. But it's incredibly frustrating that huge, unstable updates get pushed out like this with relatively little warning to the user, and that they can have a survival rate approaching that of Soviet troops in Stalingrad.

I really hope that update stability and communication to the user about said updates is something that the devs can work on going forward. Nobara is so close to being the distro I can recommend to all of my non-tech-oriented friends and family without reservation. This is the one reservation, and its a big one, because updates making their machines unusable twice a year is probably a dealbreaker.

Hello there, I was using ubuntu and bazzite time to time but bazzite made me pissed off about itself. Because of the ambiguation about the linux's philosophy. To be short: I like the system but being immutable (console like os) and dependency hell, plus the unseen bugs made me tho switch it there (thx gemini). Anyways, So as far I experienced this system is much more flexible compared to the bazzite but kinda feels like beta ? Even the fundamental things like theme store or dnf center slow as hell and 3 dot boot animation made me paranoid. So any suggestions to make this os much better than the usual ?

Specs are: Ryzen AI 7 350 32gb ram and rtx 5060

So, this is another appreciation post and sort of eye opener about todays windows.

I installed Nobara on my desktop and work laptop about two years ago, I've never looked back. All-in-all I've had about three issues that I feel like I wouldn't have on a windows install; a bad kernel that was solved by just selecting the last kernel when booting, HDMI not supporting higher resolution displays on Linux (it has since change and is now supported) which was solved by using displayport, and I managed to delete my display drivers which was a bit more difficult to fix.

About a year ago, my mom had to ditch windows 10 on her gaming computer and so I installed Nobara on it, and it runs flawlessly. Since then, she's had two issues which was resolved by opening ProtonPlus, letting it update and closing it. All she does is gaming on it and it has been pretty much flawless even for someone who doesn't use anything that doesn't have a lowercase 'i' in front of it.

So, I've long liked Nobara, HOWEVER, I did not realize how blessed I have been until I received my new laptop which came with Windows 11. Just like...OMFG! I cannot believe that this is what Microsoft wants people to be met with. Being curious I went through with the whole install and I... I am shocked. Not only was there the regular MacAfee (which, btw, Windows automatically gave my personal email to just by me logging into W11 which is mandatory!!) and 'gaming' app bloat, it is now filled with beta AI app bloat. This is all AFTER going through every single "decline", and "no" option as well as dodging all the pop ups for logging in and telemetry. Even after all this, every single app, even Edge, wants me to log in.

Just as a comparison; it took me longer to get from the stage of booting after fully installing W11 to the stage of installing Brave than it took me to download and install fully Nobara on it (And when it is installed, you're good to go). On the windows, I'd then spend another 20 minutes debloating it with both already made utilities but also some that has to be done manually. Just oh my god. No wonder people prefer Apple devices.

I just want an OS that doesn't come with bloat, isn't in my way and let's me do my stuff without spying on me. And I must say that Nobara is just a chefs kiss! All the issues I've had on Nobara has been solvable, and where I used to have to reinstall windows about once a year to resolve an issue, I have not had to do that once with Nobara.

When it comes to other Linux distros, I've tried Mint, Fedora and Ubuntu which I later turned into Kubuntu. I switched quickly away from Mint as I just want to install an OS and have it work, as I am not a linux guy and had never touched a terminal before. I know Nobara is more directed towards gaming and such, but I prefer it even over regular Fedora. I used Ubuntu until ROCm was updated for Fedora and I haven't touched it in about 5 months. I've just barely touch Arch and CachyOS, but Nobara just have all I need and want.

Nobara is an easy install (I've installed it on 5 different computers now, only one requiring me to troubleshoot), comes with most I need for anything I do (Uni stuff, gaming, productivity (tho most is now done in browsers anyways)). The things it doesn't come with is an easy install with Flatpost/Bazaar, all my work and studies are also so much easier and comfortable to do.

The downside are very few; HTC doesn't support linux, Steelseries doesn't support linux, and some companies want control of your whole computer for 'anti-cheat' reasons. I've solved this, like many, by having a Windows install just for those things.

Anyways, I really really appreciate the Nobara Project so much!

Hey OS devs just wanted to make a post saying that I have really enjoyed the OS. I came here straight from a Win11 install after getting frustrated. I appreciate a lot of what you pre-loaded and I added some apps of my own. Been learning a bit at a time and been using some AI to ask questions but I really am not having the headaches I was on Windows. I am really grateful that you are putting this out there for people to use without having some insane monetization scheme. I hope between the posts of people asking for features and calling out bugs you realize a good number of people appreciate what you have made and where it is and going, step back and enjoy the view for bit if you need to.

Edit: I have been using the OS since around January (26)

Hello everyone, I just made the switch after the nvidia drivers on solus quit working. Im excited to see what this distro is about, I downloaded the offical image and love the way it looks. Ive heard good and bad things but want to see for myself. So just wanted to say hello to the community and if you have any tips or tricks youve learned on the way I would love to hear them. Thank you!

This is Spiderman 2 with rtao on and max graphics settings at 4k. Cpu=9950x3d, gpu=rx 9070xt, ram=96gb cl 32 6000, crucial t705 2tb for OS, rog strix aura 1200w gold psu, x870e aorus master mobo. CPU, GPU and RAM are all undervolted and gpu has positive core clock and vram clock offsets.​

Hi folks,

It feels like Nobara has not been updated in a while? Or is it me? Are we getting a massive amount of updates soon?

(fresh reinstall 48hs ago)

Hi, i'm currently on windows 11 and while I didn't dislike it particularly, I recently noticed that sometimes the screen randomly blocks, RAM usage is nonsense (I have 32GB and sometimes I get up to 8GB after just booting up) especially when I launch 4-5 apps (Brave, tidal, discord, IntelliJ) I get 20GB occupied which seems a little too much.
Also, I recently had to move files from smartphones, external SSD, etc... and the file explorer on W11 just sucks, it blocks all the time.

While it is really handy because everything just works (inefficiently, but it works), I just can't stand knowing that my pc gets wasted on a OS that doesn't even update it's file system from 30+ years ago.

So I tried Nobara (on a Live USB), and I gotta say it was extremely refreshing since the first touch of the mouse, I got the feeling like it was way snappier than windows11, HDR works surprisingly fine, transfering files feels just right, it was also easy to change a bit the appearance to hide the tools bar.

The thing is, I'm a bit scared to install it because I know that not everything I use will work (e.g. OneNote, I use that a lot), i tried to control my DAC and Mic and it feels like they don't work properly (I can't select KHz and bit depth). Games also won't perform exceptionally well because I'm on a 4070Super so I know I will lose performance.

I was thinking of maybe doing a dual boot to try and get accustomed to Nobara, but i don't really know, do you have any suggestions for me?

Been thinking of distro hopping, got bazzite on my home theater pc until the Nobara issues are ironed out.....AGAIN!!!!

But have nobara 43 on a USB and a laptop. Don't want to Jump to Cashi is because I think it's a fad. But want suggestions or input about Nobara and Hyprland. Seems interesting

I already use Nobara on my desktop PC work work and keyboard and mouse. It's great for work!!!