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That’s kinda why I said “if it’s a gaming-only computer”. Nobara is the best and simplest out-of-the-box experience for gaming. Do everything through the GUI, treat it like an appliance-ish. Updates, packages, it’s all got its own GUI.
My gaming PC runs a mix of Debian
testingwith some stuff pulled in fromsidand some stuff fromexperimental(just Mesa, really), plus a Xanmod kernel which updates frequently (I’m not convinced the patches make much difference).I did all this because I’m a long time Debian user (going almost 3 decades) and I wanted the computer for a bit more than gaming. It’s not without its issues though, and I find myself frequently tinkering and troubleshooting.
I still have a Nobara partition that I can boot into, update and trust that it will be game-ready without fuss.
So...how did you get that damn partition working?? I've just tried it. Which required me an EFI partition of at least 600MB. I already had it at 500MB but apparently it didn't think that was enough...So I had to reinstall all of windows in order to resize the EFI. Then Nobara installer was happy when I chose the EFI partition as "/boot/efi", and 500GB at the end of the same SSD as "/". After a reinstall, reboot...and it goes to Windows. Ugh. Manually choosing from the BIOS the new "Fedora" entry I get a grub crash. start_image returned "not found"...Wtf? For a "simplified" installation, this is resulting quite the PITA.
EDIT: OMG...figured it out, but holy cow. The installer is rather borked. It demands 600MB for /boot/efi, which at least this, it warns you of. BUT. It will install without warnings a full system and then crap out, if you ignore a very specific requisite not mentioned anywhere during the install! You need at least a 1GB ext4 partition somewhere for /boot. Ignore this, and you're crapped.
Oh wow, that sounds fucked up. I don’t remember the ext4 requirement for /boot but after reading your comment the EFI stuff came back to me. I also thought it was weird and painful.
Anyway, glad you sorted it out. It should (hopefully) be smooth sailing from here.
Sigh...Thanks. I wish it was. I just ran the same Alan Wake install on the provided Lutris and well...the Textures are indeed fixed, I can see the FBI jackets and the faces look better...but now performance is abysmal, with frame drops to 10-15fps (1080p all max)...and RT is not even enabled (still grayed out), checked both in Wayland and X11. I think for a 7800XT I should be getting much better as long as RT or Path Tracing is not running.
EDIT: Seems this happens only with AW2. Cyberpunk and Starfield seem to have similar performance as before. So there's something going on with AW2 in Nobara.
It’s a fairly new game. The WINE and Proton devs might still be working out kinks.
I couldn’t even find it in ProtonDB.
You could also test different Proton versions.
Proton-GE 8-22 had a fix for HDR on AW2, so there’s definitely people looking into it.
https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton8-22