Nobara 42 Officially released! Changelog: Brave was not our first or immediate choice, however the decision to change to Brave comes after a long period of testing with various browsers failing in some way or another. Firefox and firefox based browsers (such as floorp and librewolf) would incur a GPU crash when scrolling live videos ... Read more

Happy New Year! Along with the new year comes a new version of Nobara! We’re happy to announce that Nobara 41 has officially been released. We have yet another fun list of changes that hopefully benefit everyone: Base: Calamares installer: Mesa: Nvidia: Nobara-Updater: Nobara-tweak-tool: Nobara-driver-manager: Nobara-welcome: Nobara-package-manager (yumex-ng): Flatpak: HTPC/Handheld: Theming: Kernel: Wiki: We’ve dumped ... Read more

Better late than never eh? After a long period which consisted of several delays due to various bugs/issues/waiting on different things (KDE 6.1.1, Mesa, GNOME 46, Nvidia 555 drivers, complete remake of our updater, just to name a few), Nobara 40 is finally released. The previous transition from 38->39 was a bit .. bumpy to ... Read more

Changelog:– Downgraded Nvidia drivers to production 535.146.02. Unfortunately 545 drivers were not stable for all users and had various issues.– Added ‘nobara-nvidia-new-feature’ repo, disabled by default. For users who want to try the 545 drivers you can do it this way: then run the Update System app and reboot. It should sync you to the ... Read more

Nobara 39 Officially Released, Happy Holidays! Changelog: Gamscope-session rebase + improvements: – moved DM service restarts/reloads to /usr/bin/gamescope-session-plus so that the session can cleanly close before restarting. this is required for gdm – added polkit policy for /usr/bin/gamescope-session-plus to reexec itself as root in order to restart DMs – added full GDM integration to os-session-select ... Read more

New ISO for Steam Deck Edition released: – Fixed wake from suspend being broken on Steam Deck after kernel 6.4+ – Updated HDR patches – Added all necessary ROG Ally kernel patches, should work well ootb now – Added Screen orientation fixups for Lenovo Legion Go – Added udev rule to treat Lenovo Legion Go ... Read more

– All standard ISOs other than Steam Deck edition updated with recent repository fixes. This means no more excludes are being used and no more uninstallable packages listed as “upgrades” in various package/software managers. GNOME Software and KDE Discover should be usable now. There may be a few packages that get downgraded after a fresh ... Read more

– Fixed issue with Nvidia ISOs where Calamares GRUB options would not get written to /etc/default/grub during installation.

– Fixed GPG key error noted here on ISOs: GPG key problems when updating – Fixed systemd-userdbd.service failure: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/27028 – Mesa updated to 23.1.4 – Nvidia drivers updated to 535.86.05

Changelog: – Fixed brightness control not working on Steam Deck Edition – Fixed SD cards not mounting on injection in GPD devices and similar – Bonus: USB storage devices formatted as ext4 will automount the same way as sd cards now. – Fixed power button not working properly on Steam Deck Edition NOTE: On standard ... Read more

Changelog: – Added new ISOs with embedded Nvidia drivers + out of the box driver installation. These ISO should allow Nvidia users to have an easier installation experience, as nvidia drivers are working on both the ISOs as well as fresh installation post-reboot. Nvidia users no longer need to worry about using nomodeset to boot. ... Read more

Changelog: SteamDeck Edition: – Fixed an issue where in deck/game mode it would switch to desktop when a shutdown or reboot was issued – Fixed an issue where in desktop mode it would switch to deck/game mode when a shutdown or reboot was issued – Fixed scaling/DPI issue on GPD Win 4 after new install ... Read more