nobara beats windows 11 for gaming (and coding)

if ur like me, u probably got tired of windows 11. like, u just wanna play, work, study, and watch ur anime, ne?

but windows seems to try to be annoying.

it forces u to use an outlook account, it keeps "spying" on u all the time (that "telemetry" thing), it puts ads in the start menu (!!!) and its still the favorite place for viruses.

but theres a linux distro called nobara thats perfect for this. and its beginner-friendly too.

the "annoying side" of windows 11

before talking about nobara, lets remember why windows 11 is so... ew.

mandatory outlook account: just to start using the pc! ur forced to log into an online account. sure, theres bypasses, but the average user wont know how to do it without wasting time researching.
telemetry and data collection: windows 11 is super nosy. it keeps sending a bunch of "diagnostic" data (what u do, what u open) to microsoft all the time. and its super hard to turn off 100%.
invasive ads: ever seen app ads in ur own start menu? or "suggestions" in ur file explorer? how horrible!
bloatware: it comes with a bunch of apps nobody asked for (hi cortana? hi candy crush? onedrive? microsoft teams? outlook? clipchamp? microsoft edge? etc etc etc)
viruses and security: windows is way more vulnerable to viruses than linux. u need to live with an antivirus running and eating ur cpu all the time, or ur at risk.
its expensive: ever seen the price of an original windows 11 license?

meanwhile, on nobara!

then u install nobara. (which is a fedora linux "fixed up" for gaming by glorious eggroll). and the difference is... everything.

nobara doesnt want ur data. it doesnt show u ads. it just wants to work.

"out-of-the-box" (it just works!)

the biggest problem with "normal" linux (like pure fedora) is u have to configure a bunch of annoying stuff. nobara already does all of that for u:

anime codecs: wanna watch a .mkv or crunchyroll? on nobara, all codecs (h.264, h.265) already come ready!
controller drivers: know the rage of pairing an xbox controller on bluetooth? on nobara, xpadneo and xone drivers already come in the kernel. just turn it on and it works 100%. probably.
nvidia drivers: on nobara, the installer asks if u have nvidia and installs everything by itself. no terminal.

made for gaming (steam or not!)

nobara was made by the same guy who makes proton-ge! he knows what hes doing!

steam: already installed and ready.
lutris (for dl-site games, gog, etc): nobara is the best system for this. it already comes with lutris and ALL wine dependencies that windows games need. u wont get that annoying "missing .net" or "missing wmp" error. u install the dl-site game (.exe) and it works.

light and fast!

nobara has no telemetry, no antivirus running nonstop, no ad service. "idle", it uses half the ram that windows 11 uses.

what does that mean? more ram and more cpu for ur game! many times, games even run faster on nobara than on windows.

but... theres a catch, ne?

yeah, there is. nobara (and linux) isnt perfect.

games that use really aggressive anti-cheats, called kernel-level anti-cheats (that need to get into the heart of the system) wont run.

the list is sad:

valorant and lol (vanguards fault)
genshin impact
destiny 2
call of duty (the new ones)

these games look at nobara, dont understand the system, think its a "hack" and close. for these, unfortunately, u still need windows. or try cloud gaming.

and for coding?

if the difference for gaming was big, for coding its huge!

for like 90% of programming languages, linux is a thousand times better than windows!

nobara "speaks the language" of servers

think about it. when u make a website, an app, or a bot... where will it run "in real life"? on a server! (in the cloud, like amazon, google, etc.)

and 99.9% of those servers worldwide run... LINUX!

programming on nobara: ur programming on the same type of system ur code will live on. the commands are the same, the folders (/home/user/) are the same, permissions are the same. if it works on ur pc, it probably works on the server.
programming on windows: ur in a totally different environment (C:\Users\). u test on ur pc, then put it on the server and... "it broke!". bc on the server things work differently.

installing tools (dnf vs "search for .exe")

on nobara (fedora), to install anything for coding, u just do:

sudo dnf install python3
sudo dnf install nodejs
sudo dnf install git

its fast, its safe (comes from the official repo), and everything is in one place.

on windows... u gotta go to google, find the right site (careful not to download a virus!), download the .exe, click "next, next, next..." and hope it doesnt install 3 toolbars on ur browser.

the "workaround" of windows (wsl)

microsoft itself knows windows is so bad for programming, that they literally created a "linux inside windows"! (its called WSL).

on nobara, u dont need wsl. ur ALREADY on linux! its the "original", its lighter and faster!

when is windows better?

windows only wins if ur programming specific microsoft stuff:

legacy .net apps (desktop apps for windows).
unity/unreal games (if u wanna build specifically for xbox or windows).

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