Good morning lemmites, I just installed nobara on my aging gaming laptop, hoping to get a few more years out of it and potentially hook it up as a capture device for my desktop. Most of the process has been seamless but there are a few outliers. First being that I had an issue getting the version of Steam working off of the software portal, so I installed the flatpak to work around it being hung up on installing directX.
Now, I’ve managed to get some games working through Proton-Qt but I’ve noticed that it won’t detect what version of Proton I’m using for Mass Effect LE due to me installing it originally on the non-flatpak version of Steam which Proton-QT is still detecting. I uninstalled the old version of steam but am not sure what the appropriate method of cleaning the drive of old content is on Fedora linux or any linux distro, really.
You seem to have run in a few issues right off the gate, usually, one would just install steam through the distro’s repositories, then let steam itself install whichever proton version they need need and run re game without any problems
You might get more success trying to fix the first installation process of steam failing than messing around with flat-packs and such.
The steam installation process didn’t fail, when I attempted to launch a game it would get eternally hung up on the directx script. This persisted across multiple reinstalls of the traditional steam distro in the software. Plus I literally got the advice to try flatpak from a GitHub thread.
Installing it via flatpak was the only way I could get anything to launch.
I have no intention to push you towards another distro since you will get more out of fixing issues on the one you have than just hopping, but what made you get nobara instead of a more tried and trusted distribution like base fedora, mint or arch derivatives ?
Nobara is just fedora with wine and proton dependencies installed and some other software like discord prepackaged, or so I was lead to believe.
What’s wrong with it? I chose it over arch because fedora has a longer track record since it’s the professional Linux distro. I figured that was a good move.
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I don’t know enough about neither fedora nor Nobara to even have an opinion about It, but I do feel like it is a bit counterintuitive to install a niche distro which added fun stuff to a fairly pro oriented distribution when there are “major” distributions that have been all about fun stuff since long ago like mint/arch and such. But that’s just me extrapolating from the time I was using opensuse and was stuggling to find documentation and/or support on my pursuit of fun, which led me back to arch-based stuff, arch being a distro 100% created for people to dick around in rather than work
Alright, so here’s how the story goes.
The last time I tried to get into Linux gaming I intended to use Arch, but had trouble finding an iso file to build a bootable from. I searched for help online and what did the first guy ask me?
“Why would you want to use Arch when Nobara is a “purpose built for gamers” fork of the track record holding fedora distro intended for professional use?”
Keeping in mind that I intend to use the laptop for desktop capture through OBS and possibly light editing through Davinci which I’ve already got working. Maybe that altered why that particular user suggested the gamified professional distro Nobara instead of Arch, idk.
At the end of the day everyone’s got an opinion and a justification for that opinion. I used Nobara because Rufus built the bootable with their iso first time up no fuss. If Arch had been as simple maybe I’d be on that instead.
Haha, can’t blame you one bit, asking for distro advice on a linux forum is like asking about tool brands at a cookout.
though now that you have a distro installed, you’ll be able to put linux iso on a usb drive using the “restore disk image” function in gnome-disk, way less finicky than rufus.
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