A few days ago the launch of the new version of Nobara 41, which is a distribution based on Fedora, with multiple improvements focused on optimizing the execution of games, content streaming and creative tasks.
As such, Nobara is Aimed at users looking for a sistem Linux powerful, modern and optimized for gaming, without the need for extensive configuration and that is why it differs from Fedora, as it includes proprietary software, codecs and preconfigured settings that are not in Fedora.
Nobara 41's main new features
Among the main new features presented by this new version of Nobara 41, the following stands out: migration to the Fedora 41 base, while the installer now uses a modified version of Calamares, Initially developed by the KaOS distribution, it adds an on-screen keyboard and advanced options, as well as allowing installation in offline mode thanks to its independence from network access.
Another of the novelties that Nobara 41 presents is that itand include the latest stable drivers for the Vulkan API in Mesa builds, as well as packaged variants of development drivers and additional libraries such as libgallium.
Also Open modules have been integrated default for NVIDIA proprietary driver, and the Nobara-Updater utility features an improved interface that allows installing user-downloaded RPM packages and makes it easier to manage updates from the system tray.
The tool Nobara-tweak-tool adds specific settings for portable devices and TV set-top boxes, including auto-update options, DeckyLoader support and settings for game controllers.
Additionally, the driver manager includes support for Broadcom devices and standalone Bluetooth controllers such as xpadneo for Xbox Elite models. The asusctl utility has also been introduced for ASUS hardware, and AMD ROCm packages are now aligned with Fedora builds.
As for the improvements implemented in the user experience, sShortcuts have been added to apps like Discord-canary and Blender on the welcome screen, in addition to a redesigned interface for DaVinci Resolve installation.
The package manager, Nobara-package-manager, now supports Flatpak management, with preconfigured repositories for both stable and beta releases. On portable devices and TV set-top boxes, automatic updates are enabled by default, along with a new indication of the progress of these updates.
On the other hand, the distribution iIncorporates new wallpapers, the inclusion of the xpadneo Bluetooth driver in the kernel package and specific tweaks for hardware such as Lenovo Legion and ASUS laptops.
Of the other changes that stand out:
- AMD ROCm (rocm-meta) packages have been moved from official AMD releases to Fedora-shipped versions.
- The Flatpak-beta channel is now added to the list of installed Flatpak repositories and enabled by default
- The mesa-vulkan-drivers-git option is now available as an option instead of forced installation.
- Nvidia users will now have a “cuda-devel” option for additional CUDA package support. When the user logs in for the first time, a simple flatpak search will run in the background. This is done to populate the Nobara package manager metadata.
- Lenovo Legion patches have been temporarily disabled.
- The xone driver is currently limited to the Xbox One Wireless Adapter only, as it currently has a bug with the gip module that causes a system crash:
- The xpadneo driver has now been integrated as a kernel patch and is limited to Xbox
- Elite and Xbox Elite v2 via Bluetooth. All other Xbox controllers use the standard XPad controller.
- Added Broadcom Wireless Driver option to Driver Manager
Source: https://nobaraproject.org
Download and get Nobara 41
For those interested in being able to try and/or install this distribution on their computer, you should know that you can obtain the system images on its official website where the editions with KDE (3.8 GB) Gnome (3.5 GB) and variants are offered. of these images with proprietary NVIDIA drivers, as well as for the SteamDeck. The link is this.