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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This is the buggiest distro I've sampled in a while, the installer broke, gnome was glitching, update broke, gnome broke worse... Not production ready boys

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’ve had a lot of stability issues with past versions. An update crashed Wayland and I couldn’t recover. I’m going to try Bazzite next.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m quite happy with Bazzite, can recommend it. Converted my spare LCD steam deck to a docked PC running bazzite. It’s stable and snappy enough for my usage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I’ve been running it for about a week now and I’m very happy with it. Thanks for the recommendation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To be fair when you download it, it warns you that it’s not production ready.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

SteamOS has a lot of bleeding edge code for newer features like HDR support that work well on the Steam Deck. But those features are still buggy and not as well tested on other hardware. That’s why there’s no general purpose SteamOS 3.x release yet.

So gaming distros like Nobara that also use the same code are going to have some problems and you can’t really fault them when upstream isn’t stable yet. If you want something less bleeding edge, use Fedora, Debian, etc.

The good news is that things will get better. It’s just going to take some more time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I think Nobara is also still a one man operation with GloriousEggroll being the sole maintainer in addition to his GE-Proton work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Does loading most of the same custom packages into regular fedora 39 work better?