Just got the Steam Deck and have everything set up, but I found out that Nobara has a Steam Deck version of their distro. My question is: is it worth switching to Nobara SteamDeck Version or stay on SteamOS? Are there any other big differences other than Arch vs Fedora? Also, does it use KDE?

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I would stick with SteamOS personally. If you do want an alternative, check out Bazzite. It aims to be a closer alternative to SteamOS.

    • asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      Not for a deck but an upcoming laptop I’m currently debating between nobara and bazzite, I keep thinking I’ve made up my mind and have settled on one but then change it again, is there somewhere I could find a good comparison/any glaring downsides I’m missing?

      • WilfordGrimley@linux.communityEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Nobara=mad respect to Glorious Eggroll

        Bazzite is fucking cool because it uses the OCI framework. It is designed to be immutable and be run rootless(like SteamOS) so your base system just can’t break. Everything is sandboxed against everything else by default. Using Fleek/Nix you can even run software from the cloud.

        https://github.com/castrojo/awesome-immutable This is an excellent resource on immutable OSes.

        Cheeky PS: You can overlay an OCI image of Nobara’s enhancements onto Bazzite with something like this https://github.com/VinnyVynce/silvernobara

        • asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml
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          10 months ago

          Not using chimera for no other reason than personally speaking I don’t like gnome, if there was a KDE spin then maybe, it otherwise looks good, but I’m not interested

          I use Fedora on my main machine currently though, and know it will be compatible with the hardware I’m getting