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Why not use Linux from scratch and customizing it yourself? What's the advantage of a distro over Linux from scratch?
The only reason stated above my comment is that Nobara looks better than Fedora. I asked because I genuinely don't know what's in Nobara that is not in Fedora and why is better Nobara.
No need to be an ass, leave that for Reddit users.
I wasn't being an ass, I just jokingly pointed how a bit limited sighted your comment was: the way I see, a distro exists to save your time by already doing a pre-customization of the system for the user, even if it's just comestic.
Oh sorry. I hate working early in the morning so I didn't catch your tone!