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.

  • RockyC@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’m guessing what happened is that EndeavourOS pushed out the update to KDE plasma 6, and if you have a custom theme installed in SDDM, it may not load and display a weird image with an error message. The fix should be to delete that theme, and install the version updated for KDE 6, but not all of the themes work yet. The default theme works normally.

    Nobara is a Fedora variant that includes tweaks for high-end gaming systems to get the most performance possible. It is not an immutable distro.

    I’m afraid I cannot answer your remaining questions, however, but Nobara has an active Discord community, and you can also check their Wiki for answers.

    • 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.”

    • aksdb@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      I’m guessing what happened is that EndeavourOS pushed out the update to KDE plasma 6

      Depending on what they meant by “the other day” and how often they update, this is rather unlikely, since Endeavor is essentially Arch. So KDE 6 is in its stable repo for 2 months already.

  • thayer@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    If immutable is high on your priorities, Fedora’s Atomic options are a solid choice. And if you’d like the added convenience of a gaming-focused take on those, checkout Bazzite.

    Unfortunately, I don’t think either of them allow custom partitioning while also maintaining automatic subvolume creation.