Nobara Project

Reader supplied reviews for Nobara Project Average rating 8.2 from 134 review(s) What are your thoughts on Nobara Project? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 4342414039383736 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 43 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-06-28 Country: United States Votes: 0 The polish of the OS is very good. I wish that Glorious Eggroll had a completely independent build of his OS as everything works properly but seems to be closely related to Fedora. Additional software packages are not always available. However, I know that most of the features found within other OSes are available to me. The time and effort to create an OS must be an excessively difficult trial of programming skills and constant learning of ideas that have to be turned into terminal commands and GUI commands. Features are never handled exclusively by the creators of the operating system. For example, I have a fingerprint scanner which I liked to regularly use on Windows 11. I would have enjoyed using that device in conjunction with Nobara, but I haven't found any solid answers for its use. This isn't exclusive to Nobara. Even with GE creating the software, it would be helpful if the vast amount of hardware manufacturers would come up with software code to support their manufactured devices to offer Linux support. I think it would be beneficial for users of Nobara to have videos to be able to quickly become accustomed to the intricacies of Linux. The amount of time teaching others to make full use of the OS is something all Linux distros need to have available. I will read manuals/text but prefer to understand things through some type of visual representation. I have 3 machines. A Windows 11 machine, a Nobara machine and a Linux Mint machine. I built the Linux Mint machine for music and to use my Digital Audio Workstation to record music content. I built the Nobara machine for gaming. I have a Windows 11 machine as my backup. Thankfully the Nobara machine works for almost everything I throw at it for games. Users coming from a Windows 11 environment want a simple to use solution that is easily understood and won't take hours, days or weeks to troubleshoot. If Nobara had good explanations of functions within the OS, users would flock to the OS. However, I have spent many days reading posts, scouring the web for up to date information, cross-referencing data for the Linux environment (this isn't exclusive to Nobara), I find this to be time consuming, difficult to find an up to date solution and often inaccurate. This is an area where people will get immediately frustrated and seek a different solution or tinker with software for days/weeks/months... If additional tutorials were offered to users, this would easily turn my 9 into a 10 rating. I am using KDE. I use Steam and run Baldur's Gate 3, V Rising, and Assassin's Creed Black Flag. I was able to immediately print to my cheap Canon Pixma TS3522 which didn't require a driver installation and hours of frustration. I plugged it in, turned it on and was able to immediately have the printer get detected in Libre Office and print a document...worth its weight in gold! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 43 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-06-22 Country: Unknown Votes: 1 I wanted an OS for development and gaming. Nobara did not disappoint; out of the box, everything just works. They have made improvements to their package manager. However, it still feels laggy, and it does not manage Flatpak installs yet. Comparing that to shelly by CachyOS, Nobara's package manager still needs work. I do wish they would not package Office. But other than that, all is good. When I encountered issues, the Discord channel was quite active so it was easy to get some help. I am using KDE as the desktop environment; however, for some reason, searching for KDE plugins, it takes way too long to load, often nothing at all. For gaming, I only play Overwatch, after installing Steam, I am getting consisten FPS. Monitors are configured correctly. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 43 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-05-25 Country: Australia Votes: 7 Nobara has been by far my best tech choice of this year, from switching seamlessly too it and leaving behind windows I can say I am extremely happy with it. I personally use KDE and it looks good and clean, it keeps up to date with the fedora packages, and it has great game compatibility with it's wine and proton packages (compatibility stuff). It's got good community support having it's own discord server and an active developer (GloriousEggroll) that helps in the server a lot of the time. I've been using it for around 3 months now possibly less: and not a single issue has happened with it. No sudden crashes or problems with the software, it always boots fast and with no problems. Which is useful if you don't want to wait 2 minutes for a loading screen like a lot of window systems. Software wise I've been keeping it up to date and it has never caused the system a problem like crashing or freezing. It only bases out at around 1.9-2.0 GB of RAM on idle, which might sound like much for a Linux OS, but compared to windows it is much better. It also uses zRAM compaction which helps with RAM efficiency; it supports drivers for NVIDIA and other graphic cards. I have very much liked this system, and if you consider getting it: definitely get it. And enjoy your experience with Nobara! By Moreyang, thanks for reading. (This took so long ;-; also I didn't use AI in this review, pure writing skills mate). Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 134 reader reviews of Nobara Project...