December 26, 2023 – Nobara Linux | The Nobara Project
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10001738

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)

  • @Caboose12000English
    7•5 months ago

    a little sad they switched to chromium for default browser, but their reason makes sense.

    also didn’t even realize Minecraft was running in XWayland, but it’s cool that it can run natively in Wayland now

  • @A_Random_IdiotEnglish
    4•5 months ago

    Nobara really needs to make in place upgrading easier, holy crap. Literally the only criticism I’ve had in all my time using Nobara.

    I’m not running all those console commands and risk shit fucking up, I’ll just do a wipe and install after holiday madness passes.

    also wtf why chromium?

    • @simpleOPEnglish
      2•5 months ago

      Why chromium is explained in the article (better support for many apps) but you can always change it to firefox, also detailed in the upgrade article.

      I upgraded from 38 to 39 with no issues. It’s honestly not hard or dangerous, just copy paste a few lines then paste the last ones to prompt the upgrade. The only catch is that if you had KDE already you won’t need to remove some of the packages it tells you about. Don’t overthink it imo.

      • DarkThoughts
        1•4 months ago

        I already fail at the first one:

        sudo dnf remove -y blender discord telegram-desktop oneapi-level-zero librist libndi-sdk firefox onlyoffice-desktopeditors

        Which errors out:

        Error:
        Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: plasma-desktop
        (try to add ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages)

        • @simpleOPEnglish
          0•4 months ago

          Try removing all of them one-by-one and ignore the ones that are trying to remove plasma.

          • DarkThoughts
            1•4 months ago

            Seems to be librist that’s the issue here. The nobara-amdgpu-config package issue also errors out on the first command though, skipping a package.

            Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package pipewire-codec-aptx-0.3.69-1.fc38.x86_64

            • nothing provides pipewire >= 1.0.1 needed by pipewire-codec-aptx-1.0.1-1.fc38.x86_64 from rpmfusion-free-updates

            This also happened on the following nobara-sync command. And the second command gives:

            error: package nobara-amdgpu-config is not installed

            Went through with it anyway but I feel that’s potentially one of those things that eventually causes issues further down the line until the system doesn’t boot anymore…

  • @derbolleEnglish
    4•5 months ago

    uh nice. now perhaps i’ll switch to nobara coming from stock fedora kde

  • @SeekPieEnglish
    3•5 months ago

    If I have 38 Gnome, do I have to completely re-install the os or is there a “upgrade” option or something?