December 26, 2023 – Nobara Linux | The Nobara Project
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Aside from being based on Fedora 39 now, KDE is now the official desktop environment replacing GNOME. The reasons why are in the article.

The GNOME version of Nobara still exists, but it’s going to be the vanilla version shipped without any extensions (probably because many of them broke after moving to Fedora 39)

      • woelkchen@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        As I understand it, that’s not even needed because the current DE choice is being preserved at an upgrade. The only thing that needs manual tweaking is reinstalling the extensions from the Gnome website which isn’t really an issue at all.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
      5·
      10 months ago

      Dang. Guess I’ll be switching to Ublue Bazzite.

      Which of the many bullet points in the changelog is the reason for that?

      • jcrabapple@infosec.pubEnglish
        13·
        10 months ago

        I don’t like KDE and if Gnome is not going to be the main DE anymore I might just move to another distro. NBD.

            • woelkchen@lemmy.world
              2·
              10 months ago

              I’ll keep looking.

              But why? Not being the default doesn’t mean that Gnome isn’t available. As both are Fedora derivatives, both should have good Gnome support inherited from Fedora anyway. As the changelog says, only a handful of Gnome Shell extensions will no longer be provided in the Nobara repository but instaling them manually from extensions.gnome.org is a breeze.

          • jcrabapple@infosec.pubEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            I’ve always experienced weird annoying bugs, and I much prefer the UX and minimalism of gnome. It’s better for productivity. I don’t just use my desktop for gaming.