Lately I’ve been looking for a decent gaming distro. PopOS works great for my Nvidia laptop, even with it’s funky Optimus BS, but I wanted to try something different for my all AMD desktop. I watched a couple of videos on the subject…
I heard “Fedora” and “Glorious Eggroll” and was sold. For those who don’t know, Glorious Eggroll maintains a bleeding edge Proton fork that works great for recent game releases. And as it turns out, he (she? they?) also rolled their own distro, with a custom kernel with gaming specific tweaks and patches. Details here: https://nobaraproject.org/
I installed it without serious issue, despite my distaste for Anaconda (it works, it’s just very non-intuitive.) I’m going to try it out for the next few weeks and see how well it runs my bloated game library.
Anyone else try it, or have a preferred gaming distro?
I’m currently trying it out (always the kde version) on a new laptop.
First caveat is that Linux+nvidia+recent-ish laptops have always been prone to trouble popping up somewhere.
Second caveat is that I will immediately subject any given distro to my impulsive technological masochism. I never judge a distro by how badly I can screw it up, otherwise even Debian/proxmox would be “unstable”.
I first installed it something like two months ago, and shortly after got a black screen because something went wrong with the nvidia driver and possibly because of gpu setting (discrete nvidia, integrated Radeon) was being selected in bios. It was a”least concern” situation because I got busy with work and playing around with bios modding and overclocking so I was spending all my time on my Win10-to-go usb/nvme testing drive anyways.
I recently reinstalled it just the other day. Installing was fine, but for some reason the first boot after install was really laggy in response time and mouse/keyboard inputs, but I started updating and eventually rebooted again and things were perfectly fine again.
The only other problem I’ve had is sometimes on reboot, the Wi-Fi won’t start and there’s some message that pops up but I haven’t looked into fixing it or what’s wrong. I just immediately reboot and then it’s good again. It may be a fedora problem. It’s reminiscent of an issue I had with Fedora 33 or 34 on my desktop where the sound just die every so often, so I had to set up some way to automatically restart it when that occurred. Eventually that got fixed in some update.
The experience will likely be smoother on a desktop.
Beyond those things, it’s actually really nice to just click some buttons on the welcome dialog and immediately get a bunch of annoying basic bitch stuff out of the way so I can quickly move on to breaking it. Basically I’ve become quite fond of fedora as a desktop/work/gaming distro, and I think Nobara takes it a bit further so it will probably continue on with it, especially since I was gonna bother with using eggroll’s mods to begin with.
