Nobara 36 2022-07-25
The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it. Fedora is a very good workstation OS, however, anything involving any kind of 3rd party or proprietary packages is usually absent from a fresh install. A typical point and click user can often struggle with how to get a lot of things working beyond the basic browser and office documents that come with the OS without having to take extra time to search documentation. Some of the important things that are missing from Fedora, especially with regards to gaming include WINE dependencies, obs-studio, 3rd party codec packages such as those for gstreamer, 3rd party drivers such as NVIDIA drivers, and even small package fixes here and there.
This project aims to fix most of those issues and offer a better gaming, streaming, and content creation experience out of the box. More importantly, we want to be more point and click friendly, and avoid the basic user from having to open the terminal. It’s not that the terminal and/or terminal usage are a bad thing by any means, power users are more than welcome to continue with using the terminal, but for new users, point and click ease of use is usually expected.
It should be clarified that this distribution is -NOT- to be considered a ‘Fedora Spin’. We are a completely independent project from Fedora, and there are no Fedora developers or parties directly involved. We use Fedora packages, code, and repositories. That is the extent of it.
Change log:
– Official: Dash to panel: move the date menu one to the right so it is at the end of the taskbar.
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– Official: Dash to panel: tray item padding changed to 6px.
– Official: Dash to panel: the taskbar size reduced to 43px.
– Official: Arc menu: menu icon reduced to 29px to fit new taskbar size and fix blurryness
– Official + Gnome: Nautilus: enable sort folders before files by default
– Official + Gnome: Nautilus: enable create link by default
– Official + Gnome: Nautilus: icon zoom default changed to 50%, most distros do this.
– Official + Gnome: Nautilus: “Text File” template created for all users at /home/username/Templates/. This enables the option for right click->New Document->Text File
– Official: Clipboard History: Clipboard History extension https://extensions.gnome.org//extension/4839/clipboard-history/ installed by default.
– Official: Clipboard History: for privacy reasons, private mode enabled by default, this means it wont copy anything unless privacy mode is turned off, however there will still be an icon in the taskbar which makes it easy to enable.
– Official + Gnome: Also adw-gtk3 is installed but was not being used by default. This has been fixed
– Official + Gnome + KDE: Fedora wallpaper packages removed so Gnome and KDE will use their respective defaults. (Official uses Gnome).
– Official + Gnome + KDE: plasma-breeze packages installed on all ISOs because Kdenlive needs it in order to not look like a potato.
– Official + Gnome + KDE: gstreamer1-vaapi package added for compatibility with obs-gstreamer-vaapi plugin. (plugin will soon be added to our OBS build by default)
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GloriousEggroll has released a new updated ISO image of Nobara 36. The Nobara project is a modified version of Fedora Linux with tweaks for gaming like WINE dependencies, obs-studio, 3rd party codec packages such as those for gstreamer, 3rd party drivers such as NVIDIA drivers, etc.
