Aside from being based on Fedora 39 now, KDE is now the official desktop environment replacing GNOME. The reasons why are in the article.
The GNOME version of Nobara still exists, but it’s going to be the vanilla version shipped without any extensions (probably because many of them broke after moving to Fedora 39)
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Interesting to read those linked GNOME issue threads, they’re really living up to their reputation… Looks like KDE is becoming the premier gaming DE, and I’m pretty happy with that.
I’m a GNOME developer, and KDE is unfortunately the gaming and colour accurate work desktop at the moment.
Kinda wish the GNOME committee would pull its head out of its ass.
Reading the reasons why they switched to KDE is making me rethink why I’m using gnome
Cool, I’ve wanted to give this a go for a while but never really gelled with Gnome. I’ll have to give it another look.
Cool, I’ve wanted to give this a go for a while but never really gelled with Gnome.
Even before the switch of the default was Plasma already an option. It just wasn’t the default.
Fair enough. I find if it’s the default option, it’s a better out-of-the-box experience as the devs would have spent more time on polishing etc.
Fingers crossed the Wayland bug is gone and I can move to Wayland.
Nice that they changed to KDE
Honestly you should just stick to Fedora. If your looking for very user friendly then I would go for Linux mint.
Honestly you should just stick to Fedora.
Why?
Support and reliability
IDK , Nobara is really stable. The main difference for me was that it comes with all the AV codecs you could need, and a few tweaks for gaming. Saved me a lot of time in the end.
These are the reasons why I would consider installing Nobara over Fedora…
This is a shit-tier post. Why hide the relevant information that’s 2 sentences long?
Relevant information:
Better integration with Steam. By default the Steam Deck uses KDE as the desktop mode. This inherently means it receives updates from Valve in terms of desktop related fixes, and they are actively working with KDE developers to bring updates to KDE (https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/t2184m/is_there_any_cooperation_with_valve_and_kde/)
I know reading is hard but you realize this quote was reason #5 of the many reasons listed… I’m not going to copy-paste the article, it’s all relevant info.
