I run nobara on three separate machines with different hardware in each. So far it’s been rock solid. I do a fair bit of development on one of them including some blender modeling and it seems to be fine. Blender isn’t quite as snappy for me on Linux as opposed to Windows but that could just be my somewhat older hardware. The Dev/blender machine is an older MSI laptop with a 3060 in it.

Don’t be afraid to give nobara a shot.

Nobara has been great for me. I’ve been using it nearly exclusively for probably two years. SteamVR works for me without any trouble.