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.

  • BlackArtist@lemmy.worldOP
    3·
    29 days ago

    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.

    • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
      3·
      29 days ago

      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.