Honestly I just can’t do non arch based distros these days. The AUR just makes life so dang easy, I feel spoilt by it.

I’m glad it’s working for you!

I haven’t tried Nobara, but I did use Fedora for a year or so and decided it wasn’t for me. My main complaint was how long release upgrades seemed to take. This was back when fedup was a thing (I think Fedora 17? Maybe DNF fixed that), and it took almost an hour just to do a release upgrade, which was 2-3x longer than a fresh install. I used Ubuntu before that and left for the same reason, but also because Ubuntu seemed to break something each major release.

So I switched to Arch, which worked much better imo and I used it for about 5 years. I got tired of periodic breakage (i.e. manual intervention every few months) but still wanted to keep the rolling release cycle, so I switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed. Breakage mostly went away, except for the odd NVIDIA driver screwup, but ever since moving to an AMD GPU things have been smooth. I’ve been on openSUSE Tumbleweed for a few years now and it’s still working well. You could very well have the opposite experience as me.

So I guess what I’m saying is, find something that works for you. Maybe that’s Nobara, maybe it’s Ubuntu, or maybe it’s something like Nix or Gentoo. Regardless, keep trying stuff until you find the right fit.

nobara is great! I am on arch now, but for a plug-and-play gaming system it works great. It really feels like a fedora gaming “spin” and honestly I think fedora should try to upstream changes into that kind of distro.

Better than Garuda?