What happens when a senior engineer at Red Hat, a member of the Lutris development team, and the creator of Proton-GE decide to create a Linux distribution? Then imagine that the three people listed above are, in fact, the same person. I’m talking about Thomas Crider (aka “Glorious Eggroll”) who started the promising Nobara Project , a Fedora-based distribution aimed squarely at gamers and content creators.
Crider's goal is to simplify access to games and multimedia creation tools for all point-and-click users, building on the solid foundation of Fedora, which does not provide proprietary or 3rd party packages.
A user must be able to work without ever having to open the terminal.
these are his words.
Nobara Workstation, as confirmed by Crider himself, for now is nothing more than Fedora Linux modified with fixes specifically designed to simplify the life of gamers and creators.
Nobara Workstation 35 is distributed with both GNOME and KDE Plasma. In the .isooperating system images we find a good number of useful packages and software:
- OBS Studio
- Codec packages (for gstreamer)
- Nvidia Proprietary Drivers
- Custom MESA-ACO drivers for AMD Radeon users
- Wine and related dependencies
- The latest version of Lutris
- Steam
- Kdenlive
- RPM Fusion repositories are enabled by default
The following packages are no longer taken from Fedora repos:
- kernels*
- glibc*
- table*
- libusb1
- libusbx
- pciutils
- lustre
- gdm
- gst-editing-services
- rygel
Custom builds of the kernel and Mesa are available here and here . Crider has opted for X11 as the default desktop renderer (although you can switch to Wayland at any time). This is because X11 is still superior for gaming in many ways, for example it is required for tools like Proton-GE AMD FSR . Rounding out the package are some niceties like the availability of Xow (Xbox One wireless driver) and the proprietary firmware needed for automatic installation on first boot. The kernel is patched with fsync , not bad!
If you try to install it today, the distribution looks like a standard Fedora Workstation installation. But custom themes will be coming soon. In short, the project is still a work in progress with a “Work in progress” sign. Crider has a long list of things to do, including adding Proton-GE and Wine-GE builds. With time and his work, the distro will take on its own features and a set of features that will allow you to appreciate its peculiarities more and more.
Download
Find more details about the project, installation instructions and other curiosities on the official Gitlab page . You can download the images .isofor a test drive from the officialwebsite (which is also currently a work in progress).
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