Hi all,
I’m very much a Linux newbie. I originally read that Nobara was great for gaming (and it is) but I’ve read even better things about Bazzite and want to give it a whirl.
My question is, am I able to download it to a usb and just do a clean install without issues or do I have to do anything beforehand. I originally installed Nobara using btrfs if that makes any difference.
Like I said I’m really new at this, hopefully it’s ok to post this here but if not please let me know where would be more appropriate.
Nobody actually answered your question so far, so here I go:
You can just install it over the other.
Make sure in the installer you have to tell it to use the whole drive where you want to install it to.
Some distros try to be smart and keep the /boot and /home directories, but then the installer has a checkbox to keep or delete it.
If you want to be extra sure, boot into the Bazzite USB stick. Then before installing, fire up the partition manager (there should be one, but idk what it is called) and just delete all partitions on the disk where you had Nobora installed on before.
That’s the thing that has me worried, deleting partitions. A long time ago (15 years or so) I deleted a partition in windows and it really messed everything up, that’s what has made me question whether it is a simple case of just running the Bazzite installer and it holding my hand all the way.
I’m planning on doing it next weekend as this weekend just became busy. No doubt I’ll be back here asking more questions.
Thanks to everyone who has responded so far it’s been very helpful.
Deleting partitions shouldn’t mess up anything, unless the partition was still in use by something else.
So if you have a disk that is just used for Nobora, deleting all the disks partitions will not mess up anything. If you have multiboot from the same disk then yes, you have to be a bit careful to not mess up whatever you want to not delete.
But as I said this is just to make extra sure. First try just installing Bazzite over Nobora, it should probably delete everything. If not, then you can delete partitions and reinstall again.
That sounds perfect, thank you so much for your replies & time. I’m gonna give it a go next weekend.
The partition manager should be KDE Partition Manager on the KDE Bazzite, and Disks on the GNOME Bazzite (I don’t think GParted is installed by default)