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neat! I'll definitely look at a side by side comparison to Zorin (my distro) out of curiosity. always nice finding new rabbit holes to dive into
Update: made the switch. worth it? maybe, maybe not. there are issues, a few visual glitches here and there (gets better with each set of updates, but still), but the proprietary Nvidia drivers being installed out of the box instead of the (apparently) not as good FOSS ones was a plus
Plus, the UI is still clean, and a lot of apps, updates, packages, etc. are installed for you from the welcome screen, so you won't be left googling for things you might need. Also comes with GE proton, Wine, Lutris, Bottles, and a few other things pre-installed so you won't lose hours setting up windows support for games/apps
If you still have apt or snap packages you want to run but can't since Nobara only used rpm and flatpak, you can simply look up Distrobox to get you started (I did this by looking up distrobox in the software store where I found an app that deals with it)
I also like that if you try to mount other existing partitions, it will ask for a password. Usually if I wanted to mount my Windows partition and access something there, other distros will just let me. Nobara asking for a password means no one, in person or via some program, can go snooping around, or potentially try to mess with my other operating systems or other partitions. Nice little security buff
Most significant difference is that Nobara updates muuch faster, so you'll have a much more recent kernel and the freshest mesa graphics stack.
Upside is that more recent and/or AAA games will run better, downside is that you might to need to do some debugging if something breaks.