Nobara — this is a modified version of the Fedora distribution, including fixes aimed at enhancing user-friendliness. The distribution aims to provide an improved experience for gaming, streaming, and content creation straight 'out of the box.'
In this release:
the base has been updated to Fedora 41;
the Calamares installer has been improved:
- rebased on a fork KaOS;
- a switch for the on-screen keyboard has been added, this keyboard now takes up less than half the screen;
- the Internet connection check has been removed — Nobara can now be installed completely offline;
by default, the open NVIDIA driver is provided;
several improvements have been made regarding Mesa;
the Nobara package manager can now easily and problem-free search/install/remove/manage flatpak packages;
Nobara-Updater has been improved:
- it checks for installed htpc packages and disables the grub timeout;
- AMD ROCm packages have been corrected to versions from Fedora, and now upstream versions of ROCm packages from Fedora are used, as they now work with Blender and DaVinci Resolve;
- the update check icon in the system tray has been changed;
- a 'click to install' has been implemented for RPM packages.
New tool nobara-tweak-tool:
- supports configuring automatic mounting of partitions;
- can manage automatic updates on htpc/handheld systems;
- can manage input controller packages on htpc/handheld systems;
- can manage automatic updating of DeckyLoader.
Nobara-driver-manager:
- as mentioned above, AMD ROCm packages have been replaced with versions supplied with Fedora;
- mesa-vulkan-drivers-git is now available as an option, rather than being installed compulsorily;
- NVIDIA users now have the option cuda-devel for additional CUDA support, this option installs all additional support packages for CUDA;
- for ASUS users, asusctl is now provided;
- The xone driver is currently limited to the Xbox One wireless key due to a bug in the upstream, causing system hangs;
- The xpandeo driver is integrated as a patch to the kernel;
- An option for the Broadcom wireless network driver has been added.
Improvements have also been made regarding Nobara-welcome, Flatpak, design elements, and HTPC/Handheld.
Source: linux.org.ru
