Is NOBARA really better than FEDORA? benchmarks, experience, apps, controllers...


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00:00 Intro
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01:36 What changes does Nobara bring?
03:56 Post-Install experience
06:12 Default layout and look
07:28 Gaming Performance comparison
10:20 Package manager & repos
10:54 Controller support
11:24 Davinci Resolve install comparison
13:03 Is Nobara Better than Fedora?
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Nobara is created by Glorious Eggroll, the creator of Proton GE, which is a more up to date version of Proton to run your games through Steam. Nobara takes Fedora, and adds the Wine dependencies, Steam, all necessary codecs for video playback, 3rd party drivers, like their own packages for the Nvidia drivers, which need a separate repo on Fedora, and a LOT of fixes to various packages.

So, let's compare the post-install process for Nobara and Fedora.
Nobara gives you a welcome app that's actually useful, and will offer to download codecs needed for video decoding and encoding. You can also install drivers there, like the nvidia or amdgpu pro drivers.

It’s not a HUGE timesaver, if I'm honest. Maybe something like 5 minutes after the install.

You can also change the layout and accent colors straight from the welcome app, with layouts based on Windows, Windows 11, macOS, GNOME, GNOME 2, or Unity.

The default experience on Nobara on the "official" version uses a heavily modified GNOME. You get a taskbar, windows style, with Dash 2 panel, and the Arc Menu GNOME extension, for a more traditional menu. You have the APpIndicators as well for notification tray icons, you get BLur My Shell, for blurred translucent elements here and there, you get desktop icons, accent colors that can also be applied to GTK3 and flatpak apps, Pop Shell, for the auto tiling capabilities, and Wireless HID to display the battery level of controllers, keyboards and mice in the battery indicator. Window buttons also include minimize and maximize here.

The laptop uses a 12th gen i7 12700H, with 16 gigs of RAM, and an RTX 3060, and everything runs from an SSD.

With shadow of the tomb raider, running the game at the native 1440p resolution, on high details, Nobara got 87 FPS on average, with a minimum of 72, and a maximum of 144.

On Fedora, using the same settings, and resolution, I got 83 FPS, with a minimum of 67.

Running Horizon Zero Dawn, at 1440p, on high details, Nobara got an average of 64 FPS, with a min FPS of 22, and a max of 161, with a score of 11591.

Fedora got an average of 63 FPS at the exact same settings, with a score of 11281, a high of 159 and a low of 21.

And in Total War Warhammer 3, at 1440p, on medium settings and ultra unit size, Nobara reached 71.6 FPS on average, with highs up to 86 and lows down to 58. Fedora, with the same settings, got 69 FPS, nice, with a max of 84 and a low of 59.

Nobara comes with its own graphical package manager, on top of GNOME Software. This thing show everything that is installed, or the available updates. It lets you install flatpak packages, and it has a graphical repo manager.

Just to see if there was any difference between distros, I also tried to connect various bluetooth controllers, namely an XBox Series controller, and a PS5 dualsense.

On Fedora all controllers connected immediately, and worked as intended, without any noticeable input latency. On Nobara, same experience.

On Nobara, installing resolve didn't require anything specific. All the dependencies were already there, the nvidia drivers they package are perfectly good for it. You download it, you run the installer, and it works. Nobara even uses the cuda drivers, which has never been necessary for me on Fedora, I just install the cuda related libraries from the repos, or rpmfusion.

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Democratic Lawmakers Disturbed as Their Own Voters Demand Violence: ‘There Needs to Be Blood’

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Brazil is doing a terrible thing on their treatment of former President Jair Bolsonaro. I have watched, as has the World, as they have done nothing but come after him, day after day, night after night, month after month, year after year! He is not guilty of anything, except having fought for THE PEOPLE. I have gotten to know Jair Bolsonaro, and he was a strong Leader, who truly loved his Country — Also, a very tough negotiator on TRADE. His Election was very close and now, he is leading in the Polls. This is nothing more, or less, than an attack on a Political Opponent — Something I know much about! It happened to me, times 10, and now our Country is the “HOTTEST” in the World! The Great People of Brazil will not stand for what they are doing to their former President. I’ll be watching the WITCH HUNT of Jair Bolsonaro, his family, and thousands of his supporters, very closely. The only Trial that should be happening is a Trial by the Voters of Brazil — It’s called an Election. LEAVE BOLSONARO ALONE!

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feeling pretty down today, it feels so weird...

i had one of the greatest few days with a lots of friends but afterwards it feels so empty, being still all alone after meeting all my friends...

still thinking about myself and if i'll find someone i like that likes me back, i mean more than a friend... damn you stupid people-loving brain 😣

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Melbourne Metro Tunnel Update

Its looking great but the tunnel between Flinders St and Town Hall is way too narrow, it will be super annoying to transfer trains there, that is one area where they should not have skimped

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Monika Talks About Her Brother Alfred Schafer Being Arrested in Germany on July 7, 2025


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This. A lot of things contributed to this tragedy, but one of the biggest factors appears to have been gross negligence:

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Tomorrow (7/8) I'll be speaking on a panel about worker health & safety at this year's San Francisco Labor Fest.

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Tried to flash new #Libreboot binary with (proper) text-mode instead of corebootfb-mode.

And suddenly found that my #ch341a programmer is dead :dragnshock: It was in the antistatic pouch in the shelf for half of the year and now it can't read/write/erase my #SPI chip on the #Thinkpad X220. It even can't be detected by OS.

Are CH341A programmers really so unreliable that they are dying without any visible reasons? :dragnsad:

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So, a concentration camp...

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New California State

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New California State was created by Californian Patriots that have had enough with the tyranny and corruption of the failed STATE OF CALIFORNIA government. By using the Article IV, Section IIII of the Constitution we are able to create a New state that guarantees us a republican form of government, as our founding fathers intended.

Ο Αβί Μογκραμπί εξηγεί ότι οι διαδηλώσεις που βλέπουμε εναντίον της γενοκτόνας πολιτικής του Νετανιάχου είναι στην ουσία διαδηλώσεις υπέρ της γενοκτονίας.
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Πράγματι, ένα μεγάλο μέρος της ισραηλινής κοινής γνώμης αρχίζει να αντιτίθεται στη στρατηγική της κυβέρνησης για τη διάσωση των ομήρων. Ομως αυτή η ίδια κοινή γνώμη εξακολουθεί σε μεγάλο βαθμό να υποστηρίζει τη γενοκτονία στη Γάζα. Αν ακούσετε τα συνθήματα ή τους λόγους που εκφωνούνται στις διαδηλώσεις, θα δείτε ότι μιλούν για κατάπαυση του πυρός για να σωθούν οι όμηροι, όχι για να σωθούν οι Παλαιστίνιοι.

Ορισμένοι λένε, μάλιστα, ότι μετά την επιστροφή των ομήρων, ο πόλεμος θα μπορεί να συνεχιστεί, ο θεός μόνο ξέρει με ποιον σκοπό. Ετσι, όλες οι μεγάλες διαδηλώσεις που πραγματοποιήθηκαν πριν από τις 7 Οκτώβρη στο Ισραήλ είχαν στόχο να σώσουν τη δημοκρατία για τους Εβραίους του Ισραήλ και όχι να δημιουργήσουν μια πραγματική δημοκρατία όπου οι Παλαιστίνιοι θα ήταν ίσοι, μια δημοκρατία όπου κανείς δεν θα ζούσε υπό στρατιωτική κατοχή, χωρίς κανένα δικαίωμα. Οχι, επρόκειτο να σώσουμε τη δική μας εβραϊκή ζωή ή την εβραϊκή μας ελευθερία, ανεξάρτητα από τις θηριωδίες που διαπράττουμε εναντίον των Παλαιστινίων στα κατεχόμενα εδάφη.
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