So yesterday I decided to give Nobara Linux a shot on my laptop. This is the feature rich Fedora based distro. Overall I don't like it. It's nice that it comes pretty much as up to date on hardware and detecting what you have. But there are some real problems. Just for one the search function tends to hang when looking for something... I even changed power profiles on the laptop to see if it is because off power I want to run this on power save mode. So it isn't that. Also for gaming it is NOT using… See More
my dedicated GPU unless I put into the Steam launch options DRI_PRIME=1. I can't even play Batman Arkham Knights on here at all due to it freaking out when I want it to use my NVIDIA GPU. OBS you cannot stack docks properly from their official installer due to a GUI error at the end of their install either. So I'm probably going to swap off it soon lol.
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Useful to know.
For an OS that appears to be promoted as a mainstream option, it seems to be doing a lot of things wrong.
At least from my casual observations, you seem to have having the better experiences with Ubuntu so far.
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