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Tldw: guy tests the RX 6800 at 1080p, 1440p and 4k across 19 games on Windows 11 vs Nobara 41.
Allegedly, nobara beats windows on all games except 2 (witcher 3 and CS2), across almost all resolutions, by around single digit percents.
Whats Ubique about Nobra? Been looking at Linux distros to replace windows 10 since EOL is coming up
Nobara is the oft pointed to gaming distro for Linux. There are three major flavors of Linux as far as I can tell (I did some research for a similar switch, which I haven't completed because I have some stupid digital coins divesting and when that's done I'm coming over). There is Debian, Fedora, and Arch. The easiest and simplest way for me to understand them is scaling them in terms of stability and latest releases. Debian is supposedly super stable but furthest behind on releases because of all the stability testing. Arch is least stable but on all of the latest releases. Fedora is the middle ground, more stable but slightly behind.
Nobara is based on Fedora and is recommended for new Linux users who want to game. The steam deck is on an Arch based distro. Linux Mint, another recommended pick for new comers, is based on Debian.
I am personally porting over to Arch Linux, because I want to have the latest releases and I believe I can sufficiently reduce the instability with a couple of processes. I have it installed on my laptop and it's been seemingly stable for about a quarter.
Have a spare hard drive I use to test different ones like Ubuntu, mint and the like, but it's good to know that some gaming focused ones exist
(Any one you recomend for a semi new Linux user other then this one?€
Just pick one and have fun. You can install pretty much any software you want on any distro, "gaming focused" just means some stuff comes preinstalled/preconfigured.
The process to get gaming on pretty much every distro is:
Your experience will be very similar on whatever distro you choose.
I recommend Mint or Fedora for new users, mostly because they're popular so getting help should be easy. I personally use openSUSE Tumbleweed though, which is also fantastic.
I would personally recommend the base distros and I am a big fan of Fedora myself. Has been rock solid for the last 4 years or so. Although you'll have to choose a desktop environment as well. I use gnome, which imo just looks and feels really good, although it's not as easy to customise. You can also pick KDE, which looks more like windows by default but you have so many settings it's a bit too much imo.
You can always change the desktop later if you really want to, so pick whatever you think you'll like best