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Nobara, a popular Fedora-derivative, incorporates many of the packages that Fedora omits, such as proprietary drivers plus links to Steam and other gaming sites. Nobara 42, the distribution's first rolling release, includes several significant changes. Besides regular package updates, these changes include:

  • The availability of both free and proprietary graphic drivers
  • Patches for Mesa and DOOM: The Dark Ages
  • Nobara Package Manager has been removed from the desktop to discourage inexperienced users from trying it, but it is still available from the menus
  • The choice of Brave as the default browser, but with Brave Rewards, Wallet, VPN, AI, and Tor disabled
  • Flatpost, an in-house, GTK-based Flatpak shop

The release notes at https://nobaraproject.org/2025/05/13/may-132025/ give detailed explanations of why these changes were made.

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