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If you are going to game daily, I would recommend Nobara. Which is based on Fedora, but has all the gaming stuff precompiled/installed and ready to go from the start, Which makes getting started with gaming much easier. Its very user friendly to boot.
but if you just want an binary answer between Mint or Fedora, I'd say Fedora.. since you will still be able to find, install, and benefit from a lot of the Nobara stuff, even if its not included in the box from the start.
Nobara is actually one I highly considered. But I keep reading that base Fedora is more stable.
Of that’s not true I love the features Nobara comes with.
I mean, base Fedora probably is more stable.
Playing games requires an lot of extra stuff, and the kernal is more bleeding edge in nobara to keep those GPU updates (if AMD) and performance tweaks fresh and useful.
but generally speaking from my experience, Nobara is no more or less stable than anything else, windows or linux. And any issue I did rarely had was typically resolved with a reboot, and generally from a game.
You guys might have talked me into Nobora actually.
I’ve not been someone who’s favored stability over new tech and performance on Windows, so why should I on Linux?
Also, like others have said, changing the Distro if I hate it isn’t exactly the end of the world anyways.
The main issue with nobara is that it's handled by a single person. Almost everything you get on nobara you can get with a few commands on the terminal in fedora; and whatever patches they have under the hood will at best get a marginal performance boost and at worst cause major crashes and issues.
Nobara is a solid choice for people that don't like to tweak their system too much because it comes with everything you need to play games from the get-go. If you're more of a power user there's very little reason to pick it over fedora or arch.
That’s the reason I was considering Fedora instead. But I just installed Nobara, so I’ll see how it goes.
I’m VERY curious about Arch, but I’ll stay on this distro for a little bit(I think)
Well Arch is great at what it does: getting you the latest packages of everything without needing to upgrade every 6 months or whatever; that does come at the cost of a bit less stability. There's EndeavourOS if you're uncomfortable installing from the console.