Just finished the video about Zen 4 vs 5 and gaming and noticed that all of the Linux benchmarks were done with Nobara. I’m wondering what the reasoning behind that was? Ease of install? Performance improvements? Something else?
If there is a big performance difference between various distros I’d be curious to see a video discussing the causes. Whether it be due to kernel versions, packaging choices, or something else. I generally just install steam on whatever distro I’m using and never bothered for a gaming focused distro outside of something like a HTPC.
we used Nobara for a few reasons. The main one is ease of setup. Nobara comes with preinstalled applications like Steam, GOverlay (like MSI Afterburner for Linux), and Lutris. It has some personal optimizations from Glorious Eggroll to be gaming-focused. It is also preloaded with all the necessary Wine dependencies and auto drivers for Nvidia and AMD. It’s also Fedora-based, and Fedora has come a long way for being one of the best compatibility-wise for gaming. It’s not necessary to use Nobara, but it is convenient and good at what it does.