Hi all, I’ve been having issues with my favorite games on EndeavourOS Linux. Also, on top of that, an update the other day deleted my whole plasma desktop and left me with a skeleton of SDDM. I got it fixed, but some things are still wonky. I’m honestly getting tired of maintaining it and I just want something that just works for my video games and some coding. Nobara sounded awesome after some research. I do have a couple of questions for you all before switching:

  1. Is Nobara atomic? Immutable? Or whatever those distros are called.

  2. I have my /root, /home separate each in their own drive, plus a 3rd one for my steam and other games. Since I’m coming from Arch and I’ll only be formatting my root drive, what folders/files will I need to remove from my /home directory after switching to Nobara so I don’t have issues?

  3. Since I separate drives for everything, I’ll be doing a manual partitioning when I install Nobara, and will be choosing btrfs for my /root so I can do snapshots with timeshift. My question is, does Nobara set up the subvolumes automatically for me when I do manual partitioning, or do I need to set them up myself?

  4. How hard is it to set up snapshots in grub?

  5. Or does Nobara have a back up tool already that already does snapshots?

Thank you.

  • penquin@lemm.eeOP
    2·
    6 months ago

    Thank you. So much. Are you certain about Nobara not being immutable? I installed it in a VM and it created a “rescue” image after an update, so I thought it was immutable with atomic updates. Also, I never install any themes on KDE, period. I use the defaults. The update was botched and it affected many people.

    • RockyC@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Unless they changed things and haven’t updated their website.

      Right on the home page of nobaraproject.org: “The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.”