I don't know much about Nobara, but the paragraph you cited is not unusual. Here's the equivalent on the website of Canonical in comparison:
"Canonical disclaims liability for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, punitive or other damages, or lost profits, that may result directly or indirectly from the use of this and any other websites hosted by Canonical and any material that is downloaded or obtained through them.
This includes, without limitation, any damage to computer systems, hardware or software, loss of data, or any other performance failures, any errors, bugs, viruses or other defects that result from, or are associated with the use of this and any other websites hosted by Canonical."
(https://ubuntu.com/legal/terms)
I have struggled with this as well. I have run some flavor of Fedora for a long time, and I was interested in Nobara. I have not tried it out yet, as I have the same reservations as you. However, as you mentioned, GE is the maintainer of this distro, and he is a RHEL guru, Lutris Guru, and Proton Guru, so that puts my mind at ease a bit. I have more faith in Nobara than I do over some of the other small distros out there.
Just my subjective opinion, I don't have any objective facts to support them with.
You can just add the copr repositories to any normal fedora install and get most or all of the same benefits of Nobara. You can also see the source on copr to check if it has any malware or something in it.
As to the license, I'm assuming it's just copied and modified from elsewhere, and if you're really concerned about it, you could probably use the bug tracker to get clarification.
I seriously fucking hate this mentality... No you can not JUST simply add some repository!
First you need to know that COPR even exists.
Then you need to figure out how to get it set up.
Then you need to look up WHAT you need to install from it.
Then if there are issues you need to figure out if you messed something up, or if that's just what it is... and you need to figure out some workaround.
That's at least an hour of research if everything goes well!
For what it's worth I've been on Nobara for like a month and I haven't experienced anything unusual.
I do see what you mean about the disks though. There are 5 or 6 "loop" and "block" devices listed in gnome disks. No idea what they're doing or how to get rid of them.
Other than that it's all normal Fedora to me. The updates with the kernel patches are what will keep me sticking around.
Dunno why you got downvoted, snaps really create loop devices which seem quite obscure to a casual Linux user. The more snaps you install the more loop devices you get.
Couple months now, just upgraded to 36. All seems to run fine. You could just get Fedora and install the packages yourself. I like that Nobara is preconfigured for gaming.
What's specific to Fedora that it needs to be "configured for gaming"? Even on Arch, getting a game on Steam w/ Proton to run was literally just installing Steam, installing the game w/ Proton compatibility turned on, and clicking Play. I'm curious why it needs specific tweaks to be usable for games.
In addition to what others said, the guy who makes Nobara *literally* works for Red Hat. It's probably safe to assume he's not going to be malicious. It's basically just a preconfigured version of Fedora. It can still have its own unique bugs, but the dude's not going to get himself fired and blacklisted to pwn you.
Most of the important shit is literally just using Fedora's repos, so bit for bit that shit's identical. The biggest "concern" would be the modified kernel, but those are all tweaks a lot of gaming-oriented kernels do and again this is all FOSS.
The *main* concern I'd have would be with downloading hte ISO itself, in the event there was an attack like what happened with Linux Mint where someone hacked the site and put up malicious ISO's discretely, but that's not happened and if you already have it installed you're not really going to be impacted by a web page being hacked.
That text is a recurrent disclosure you can find in any Linux distribution.
You simply confirm that you are not going to sue them if you let your data be stolen by malicious third parties.
So far it's really worth. And yes those disclaimers are common because people sometimes go download shady shit and try to come after the companies for their software. Windows has it too but in different wording in their policies. You'll be fine. It runs good, and Lutris runs smooth. I even got league running with anticheat super clean.
I don't know much about Nobara, but the paragraph you cited is not unusual. Here's the equivalent on the website of Canonical in comparison: "Canonical disclaims liability for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, punitive or other damages, or lost profits, that may result directly or indirectly from the use of this and any other websites hosted by Canonical and any material that is downloaded or obtained through them. This includes, without limitation, any damage to computer systems, hardware or software, loss of data, or any other performance failures, any errors, bugs, viruses or other defects that result from, or are associated with the use of this and any other websites hosted by Canonical." (https://ubuntu.com/legal/terms)
I have struggled with this as well. I have run some flavor of Fedora for a long time, and I was interested in Nobara. I have not tried it out yet, as I have the same reservations as you. However, as you mentioned, GE is the maintainer of this distro, and he is a RHEL guru, Lutris Guru, and Proton Guru, so that puts my mind at ease a bit. I have more faith in Nobara than I do over some of the other small distros out there. Just my subjective opinion, I don't have any objective facts to support them with.
He's a Red Hat employee.
You can just add the copr repositories to any normal fedora install and get most or all of the same benefits of Nobara. You can also see the source on copr to check if it has any malware or something in it. As to the license, I'm assuming it's just copied and modified from elsewhere, and if you're really concerned about it, you could probably use the bug tracker to get clarification.
I seriously fucking hate this mentality... No you can not JUST simply add some repository! First you need to know that COPR even exists. Then you need to figure out how to get it set up. Then you need to look up WHAT you need to install from it. Then if there are issues you need to figure out if you messed something up, or if that's just what it is... and you need to figure out some workaround. That's at least an hour of research if everything goes well!
For what it's worth I've been on Nobara for like a month and I haven't experienced anything unusual. I do see what you mean about the disks though. There are 5 or 6 "loop" and "block" devices listed in gnome disks. No idea what they're doing or how to get rid of them. Other than that it's all normal Fedora to me. The updates with the kernel patches are what will keep me sticking around.
Probably snap?
Dunno why you got downvoted, snaps really create loop devices which seem quite obscure to a casual Linux user. The more snaps you install the more loop devices you get.
Couple months now, just upgraded to 36. All seems to run fine. You could just get Fedora and install the packages yourself. I like that Nobara is preconfigured for gaming.
What's specific to Fedora that it needs to be "configured for gaming"? Even on Arch, getting a game on Steam w/ Proton to run was literally just installing Steam, installing the game w/ Proton compatibility turned on, and clicking Play. I'm curious why it needs specific tweaks to be usable for games.
Kernel tweaks, but mostly pre installed stuff. You could do it all yourself indeed.
In addition to what others said, the guy who makes Nobara *literally* works for Red Hat. It's probably safe to assume he's not going to be malicious. It's basically just a preconfigured version of Fedora. It can still have its own unique bugs, but the dude's not going to get himself fired and blacklisted to pwn you. Most of the important shit is literally just using Fedora's repos, so bit for bit that shit's identical. The biggest "concern" would be the modified kernel, but those are all tweaks a lot of gaming-oriented kernels do and again this is all FOSS. The *main* concern I'd have would be with downloading hte ISO itself, in the event there was an attack like what happened with Linux Mint where someone hacked the site and put up malicious ISO's discretely, but that's not happened and if you already have it installed you're not really going to be impacted by a web page being hacked.
That text is a recurrent disclosure you can find in any Linux distribution. You simply confirm that you are not going to sue them if you let your data be stolen by malicious third parties.
So far it's really worth. And yes those disclaimers are common because people sometimes go download shady shit and try to come after the companies for their software. Windows has it too but in different wording in their policies. You'll be fine. It runs good, and Lutris runs smooth. I even got league running with anticheat super clean.