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?
I find steam os to be very user friendly
As a chronic tinkerer, I’m shocked that I haven’t loaded another OS on my deck, but I truly see no reason to do so.
Pretty much everything will work better with the system specifically design for that particular hardware. The only reason you might want to remove steamos is if you have high privacy/security concerns
Personally I’d stick with SteamOS. It’s tailor made for the hardware. Nobara is cool, but I don’t think you benefit from it much (unless you really don’t want the locked filesystem).
I would stick with SteamOS personally. If you do want an alternative, check out Bazzite. It aims to be a closer alternative to SteamOS.
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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
The testing build of Bazzite should have everything in your bottom link and more ;)
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