Kudos to you! I was updating tonight on Garuda and got a repeat fail because keys out of date. I did your Garuda Assistant thing to update keys, clear locks, and do update, and it all worked again. Thank you :)
For some seasoned Arch users, Garuda may seem "bloated" but it's the BEST new-user friendly Arch based distribution out there. (In my opinion, of course)
@@k.b.tidwell Can Garuda be configured manually to look minimal ? I personally don't like that fancy things. And also is it possible to delete bloated application
@@alwayshappy2862 completely possible to change anything you want. Basically a different wallpaper and icons will fix the 14-year-old-gamer look, and the software can be easily removed in the software store app. Be aware too that Garuda produces other, less, chaotically flashy spins. You'll have to look on their downloads page. One of the best features of Garuda is their toolbox where you can choose a power or performance mode, and it downloads several different apps automatically relevant to each mode.
Been using the dragonized kde version for about a month now and I love it. Everything just worked for me, with no issues. I love that it is really fast and the different tools it offers to help someone who is new to arch, transition. Overall, it is a great distro, especially for those who want the latest features and a stable system.
I am very pleased with my Garuda xfce edition, have not had any problems with it. I am running the latest Endeavour on my Dell laptop and that is running well also. I am very impressed with the work the Garuda dev's have done and hope to see it become even more popular as time goes by.Good video Tom thanks.
I use Garuda Linux dr460nized Edition as my daily driver, and I love it. Sure linux mint was the first distro I ever used, and I've been distro hoping on different Debian/Ubuntu based distros, but the moment I moved to Garuda, an Arch based distro, I felt like I was home. I'm not gonna lie, though, the Awesome look of the desktop enviroment was the reason why I switch to it, but I fell in love with the distro and I don't regret switching to it.
Garuda dr460nized on my main desktop for about 2 years now. Love it. Other than like 2 bad updates that broke some stuff, its been a real enjoyable experience. I use Manjaro on my laptop mainly for the known stability. After being a debian guy for ever, I can say I'm officially an Arch snob. The AUR is just too hard to beat when you need that odd piece of software.
No matter how many other distros ive hopped around too ive always found my way back to garuda. It is so stable and i love the customizations. Im not a fan of the octopi store thing. Its literally my only gripe. Great video.
I switched from Windows Gaurda months ago before finding seeing this video. I think its a really solid distro and all games I've thrown at it run with no issues. I tested Mint a while back and while it was fine i found mint to be more buggy with games and for some reason performance wasnt up to scratch. Ive switched to Garuda almost 100% on my desktop and 50/50 on my laptop. My laptop is down to the audio sounding bad on Linux so if i want to watch anything with the speakers I have to use Windows
I love Garuda... I use the lite edition. I keep going back to Garuda. I tried all sorts of distros; arch, Debian, Fedora, different spins of each one. All was good. But the ChaoticAUR is top notch. I wish arch had an app like MX snapshot. I would be in heaven then.
We should have worked together and compared notes. Over the last couple years I've done exactly as you have...around close to 40 distros lol. I agree completely about the ChaoticAUR...amazing. And MX is the closest of any other distro I've tried (well, maybe YaST in OpenSUSE too) concerning built-in tools. PS - I actually love distrohopping and I waste a lot of productive time doing it lol.
@@k.b.tidwelllol, right... Like I said, they have some fantastic tools, especially MX Snapshot. If only we (arch crowd) could get something similar to MX Snapshot, I would very happy! lol
Garuda is just way too bloated and flashy for my tastes. Also, I recall hearing from DT and Xero that Garuda tends to go changing things and doing things that could cause conflicts and reduce compatibility with pure Arch, which could cause problems with the AUR. I remember Garuda removed the Latte dock claiming that it was being discontinued and too hard to maintain, while the creator of XeroLinux continues to use it and blasted the devs of Garuda for being lazy. Whatever the specifics are, Garuda just feels too slow and heavy to me, and its excessive graphical effects are only part of the reason. Not a fan.
Manjaro is leaps and bounds better that any other arch based distro I've used. Endeavour, Garuda, Archman, Arco, etc all suck compared to Manjaro in my experience. I haven't been able to keep any of them running more than a few weeks. Manjaro is 3 years now and counting.
If you haven't tried Mabox, give it a look for a fun twist on Manjaro. Absolutely the most beautiful window manager distro I've ever seen, but it has a learning curve that keeps it in my "one day I'll dive in" category. Still...so nice. And it supposedly solves some of Manjaro's issues.
@@k.b.tidwellA while back I wanted to try Mabox. But I knew that I would need to have desktop scaling on my 4k monitor and I didn’t see scaling as available on Mabox(Openbox), so I didn’t install it. Still sticking with Garuda which is great! But I think that Mabox looks really beautiful.
I have used Garuda Linux before. I liked it but was unable to continue using because I find myself necessitating a "sudo pacman -Syu" every two weeks or so; It's not a problem per-se, but based on your workflow, it will be more of a hassle than anything. As someone who is in a full time job, it's something that I would not have time to do so. I have since switched over to Debian.
I did the Garuda gamer addition but I did not like it and headed back to Pop OS. How ever I will most likely try Garuda out again based on that fact I tried the gamer version and need to check out the normal system. Do to how linux works it's normally better to start with a striped down version and add what you want and like to it.
' The Garuda Linux community prioritizes marginalized people's safety over privileged people's comfort. The following are NOT against the Code of Conduct: "Reverse"-isms, including "reverse racism," "reverse sexism," and "cisphobia" ' -- Garuda Linux Code of Conduct, 16 Nov 2023
@@HimmelsDaemon Racism is not white supremacy or hating every race but white, and sexism is not hating women or misogyny. Sexism could just as easily mean to despise men for their gender alone or give them worse treatment. An example being how few nurses are men. That is sexism as well. Though not misogyny. Racism does not only apply to whites hating one group or another. Racism could just as easily be native americans hating asians. To say otherwise means you are trying to redefine racism and sexism.
I liked most of it but the installer is very broken. It has no option to set time to UTC, and fails to detect all hard drives (they are all detected by lsblk and all of the usual GNU partition tools) so it's impossible to install on the correct drive if your unlucky, even if it is preformatted. OpenSuse has the best installer I have found on any linux. Oh and the Konsole setup was very buggy, adding extra chars to the start and end of many text blocks, which made reading man pages rather difficult.
I'm not a Linux expert by any means ( I've been using Linux mint for years on my laptop doing work related stuff and some programming), however, I installed Garuda Linux on a new gaming rig, and let me tell you something..I was able to play everything without any issues. I ran emulators (all of the emulators I regularly use like switch, px2,px1, gamecube, etc) and I also play games on Steam and epic (hero launcher). I have no complains so far.
its quite an amazing arch distro, i still cant figure out how to set up snapshots on vanilla arch the way garuda does....garuda has its snapper snapshots automatically take everytime pacman is run, and then all of those snapshots are bootable from the grub menu.
The commands below worked for me in both CachyOS and Archcraft. The first step is to install the distro with the btrfs filesystem. Then use the commands below. sudo pacman -S yay yay -S snapper-support btrfs-assistant
I have been Linux distro hopping but I keep going back to Garuda Linux. I do not miss flatpak or snap support. Anything I've ever used that required those are in the repositories or in the AUR.
Garuda linux was my first entry into the Linux community. To me it’s hands down the best beginner arch choice. The dragonized gamer is extremely bloated imo but the regular dragonized is just fine I’d install it and add what I wanted post install
@@abhigyanbaruah4748 single boot, once i decided to leave windows, i left, but i believe during install it has option to search for other bootloaders in first menu, and the installer has install alongside during disk partition section
ive tried garuda and arch, i just dont like it. it feels like things break every update that are unfixable. i just roll with opensuse tumbleweed because it's a great combination of "power user" and stable for me. even fedora is starting to become slightly unstable, but suse has yet to give me any problems
Great video! I tried pure Arch a few years ago and didn't enjoy the experience, and lived with Debian up til a year or so ago when I decided I wanted a rolling release (found Sparky after everything I'm going to tell you). Casting around for Arch derivatives that would be more beginner-friendly, I tried EndeavourOS, didn't click with it, and moved to BigLinux, which is a very nice Brazilian distro. Then I tried Garuda Dragonized and fell in love. Everything you've admired here really impressed me too, but ultimately I went back to Debian because of one particular needed Windows writing program that runs in Wine, but which requires (as of now) specific hoop-jumping that only works under Debian. Believe me, I've tried. I was almost truly sad to not be able to stay with Garuda for my main writing machine. Good news is I've found another FOSS program to replace that Windows program, so I'm getting several SSD's on the Black Friday sales and I'm dedicating one to Garuda to place in one of the lot of Lenovo laptops I got for experimentation purposes. I'm looking forward to it! I LOVE trying out distros, and Garuda is a fantastic one to try.
Sounds like you may be a candidate for distrobox + docker (or podman). Have distrobox install debian inside a container, and then add wine and customize it for your Windows program. This works for any host distro that supports distrobox/docker, which is pretty any distro now. As a bonus, distrobox should be able to export your program to the host desktop environment, so it appears in the application menu.
@@dktol56 I've used distrobox before, but since I get satisfaction out of getting the best performance I can out of any older hardware...I like recycling tech...I don't usually have enough cores to offer enough horsepower (to my satisfaction). But I know that sooner or later I'll try it again. My visual-thinking OCD mind gets dopamine out of one distro per install. I irrationally believe it gives a more pure bare metal experience, but that's only one way I'm weirdly different. Thanks for that suggestion, though. After you try a thousand different scenarios, you always forget about some of them.
I downloaded Garuda Dragonized kde version and I am having trouble getting the audio to work on my laptop unless I use a Bluetooth speaker, do you know how i can get the laptop speaker working??? Also it keeps freezing up on me, i still only have it on the usb thumb drive. Also do you know of any good offline GPS and mapping software for Linux. What do I need to do to get Oblivion and Skyrim working offline. I'm sorry for all the questions but i am new to Linux
Garuda Cinnamon is crazy good out of the box on my Nvidia GPU. I have some UI issues with Gnome and Kde but performance and features are insane, better than I have seen in any other Distro.
Well as a complete noob to Linux I've been doing a lot of distro hopping to find one that serves all my needs. Garuda is the only one that I have found that meets all my needs but (yes, there's always a but) it will not allow me to add cores to Retroarch. I play a lot of 3DO games and cannot for the life of me find a 3DO emu for Garuda or install the 3DO (Opera) core, so please, some help would be marvelous, thanks in advance
I'm fond of Garuda, but I've encountered some issues with the Linux kernel at times. Even with a Linux LTS kernel installed as a backup on my main PC, I faced booting problems about a year ago. However, about 14 days ago, I decided to give it another try, as you can see here. I still believe it's one of the best operating systems for gaming. ua-cam.com/video/7LYliNy6rNs/v-deo.html
I've been using Manjaro for quite a few years now on my desktop (as of now, 16GiB RAM and a pretty good, 16-core Intel CPU; I'm happy with it. I've hardly ever had any trouble, and it's kind of _my_ optimum of being cutting-edge and stability, plus the awesome community. Personal taste, though. As for my desktop, Garuda wouldn't cut it. Lenovo G50 with 4 GiBs of RAM and a traditional HDD... Well, it's a potato. For that kind of machine, I'd recommend Mabox for those who, like myself, prefer Arch-based distros that have undergone a tad more testing than vanilla Arch. Garuda _does_ look gorgeous, and from what I've seen of it, I'd like to check it out some time. But for now, I'm feeling _so_ at home with Manjaro and Mabox, I can't see myself going back to distro-hopping anytime soon. Good video, though.
It does not do anything. I didn't show it in the video, but that will load the default software installer on the system, but this version of Garuda does not have one, so pushing the button does not do anything.
Old Net/Sys Admin here.... The only negative thing I can say about Garuda is its default Seizure-Causing Color Scheme. IMO, their setup/usage of repos is better than most Arch based distros. I've had way-fewer update issues (almost non-existent) with dependencies.
Get a grip on yourself my splendid dude, the color scheme is gorgeous & you should definetely put gentoo on your machines and suffer accordingly, hope this helps...
With Garuda, I was able to profile my monitor with DisplayCal, which I can't ever get to work in other distros anymore since it depends on ArgyllCMS, which depends on an outdated version of Python. I don't know what to do about this, I've heard people suggest using the flatpack of DisplayCal, but with Garuda it was pre-installed and just worked right away. I can't believe more distros don't include DisplayCal, it's crucial to calibrate your monitor if you do anything where you manipulate colour. PopOS comes all ready to run Davinci Resolve, so they say anyway, and yet, no way to profile your monitor. Once in a while, something in Garuda breaks for me, but so far, turning it off and on again has been able to fix pretty much anything that goes wrong. A lot of stuff that just works in Garuda would be a bit of a pain to set up myself. Anyway I like it, keeping it for now. It's a bit heavy I suppose compared to others, a bit flashy and not even claiming to be stable, but it has a lot of advantages, looks cool, and relatively easy to use for a Windows boomer like myself.
If you are not a total noob, CachyOS is fantastic. But Garuda is better for new users. I like to install more apps myself nowadays, so I'd rather use Cachy now, but if I were to recommend an Arch based distro to someone I know, it would most likely be Garuda.
I had a really bad experience with garuda gaming edition before I knew about tiling window managers and it drove me to rage quit. It has been decades since I used linux full time so this video is weirdly specific to my interests at the moment.
atm looking for a Linux based replacement for Windows, basically if I can make it feel like I'm working with Win XP or 7, and play any games I've played over the past 25 years I'm sold, this does seem like it comes closest to what I'm looking for
If it's old games and Windows 7 vibes, Mint ought to be a good fit. For more modern games I've had better results with Fedora. Probably more important, Gnome instead of Cinnamon for the desktop environment helped with some games. Cinnamon is pretty friendly for Windows vibes, but in some more modern games it has some pretty bad stuttering with my AMD card. Haven't tried Garuda yet, but that and Nobara would be next on my list to try if I wasn't content with Fedora. But really, once you have Steam and Bottles or Lutris or Wine installed, most distros are probably going to be roughly the same for gaming. At worst, you might have to fiddle a bit for some games (e.g. installing Gnome instead of Cinnamon, or downloading a few extra packages like I had to do for some RenPy games in Fedora). As far as I can tell, the biggest things the distro determines for you are (1) desktop environment (2) package manager (3) update cadence and (4) preinstalled software. If a game is totally borked or unrunnable on distro , I'd be surprised if it was fine on distro .
@@ordinaryhuman5645 Bear in mind that Lutris does not support Mint with Cinnamon. Just like with multi-booting Garuda, if you want to do it, you are on your own when it goes wrong and they will deny support even for completely unrelated issues.
@@kpcraftster6580I didn't know that, but when I was having Mint/Cinammon issues it was with games on Steam with Proton; I don't think I had tried Lutris until more recently on Fedora.
Mostly KDE and Gnome both have more integration for online accounts; there are a few other streamlining things for modern computing, but if you don't need any of that, xfce is better.
I installed it just 2 days ago onto my external SSD for my Steam Deck. After updating, I restarted and it failed to boot back up. TTY screen said Zen-kernel and below that it said RAM Disk fail, or something like that. I gave it the benefit of the doubt and tried again. Same thing. Perhaps changing kernels might be a good thing for me in this case.
Hi! I have a (currently soft-bricked) samsung galaxy tab pro 12" from about 10 years ago. Any chance yours is the same? Whatever the case, does it run fine in the tablet?
I've been loving my Garuda Dr460nized "gaming edition" OS on the various systems it's installed on. I just wish my older high end Dell laptop with the Nvidia video subsystem would play well with Garuda. It's actually what I downloaded it for initially and it won't even run "live" let alone on bare metal. I've tried to load it with both Open Source and Proprietary source drivers for the Nvidia card. No dice.
Most adaptors just need plugged in and it shows up. However, if it is not recognized you might need to check if they have drivers for it. FYI TPLink adaptors do not work with Linux out of the box.
Ok, can someone please explain me, when people say arch always installs the absolute bleeding version of a software, does it mean it install beta software builds??? Or just the latest stable version?
Garuda: Presenting KDE Dragonized Gaming Edition Me: Nice, can I multi-boot it? Garuda: Dual-boot has never been and will never be supported. Me: With linux gaming being what it is, isn't that a rather odd hard-line stance to take? Garuda: Our distro was never intended for gaming. Me: But you just announced something called "gaming edition"... Garuda: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@Kelticfury In order to be woke, you first need to be lacking intellect and/or integrity. Would you trust someone so lacking in intellect and/or integrity with your OS? Edit: Or to put it another way, can you trust people who think they should police their community against wrong-think, to not create backdoors in your system to help with policing against wrong-think?
Manjaro would be good if they got their act together. Everytime I've used manjaro an update broke the system. Made it. Impossible to use for long. This was just my experience though
@@bpomp22 I have been using Manjaro for 3 years. I activate aur repositories. I update the system daily with yay -Syu and sudo pacman -Syyu ... 0 problem. solid as a rock. doesn't break.
@@bpomp22 ya I ran it from 2015 -2021 with very few problems.. then beginning in 2021 it just kept breaking over and over. Over a 6 month period I had way more problems than the previous 6 yrs combined. have been on garuda for about a year and so far so good.. an occasional conflict that 10 minutes of research sorts out
I'm not an expert, this is the longest I've been on a distro and Gaia keeps going strong even with my lack of sense and desdain. Yet it's been a great experience for what I need.
Kudos to you!
I was updating tonight on Garuda and got a repeat fail because keys out of date. I did your Garuda Assistant thing to update keys, clear locks, and do update, and it all worked again.
Thank you :)
For some seasoned Arch users, Garuda may seem "bloated" but it's the BEST new-user friendly Arch based distribution out there. (In my opinion, of course)
I agree. BigLinux is a pretty close second in my opinion, but it's not quite as "finished" as Garuda. My opinion also! :)
@@k.b.tidwell
Can Garuda be configured manually to look minimal ?
I personally don't like that fancy things. And also is it possible to delete bloated application
@@alwayshappy2862 completely possible to change anything you want. Basically a different wallpaper and icons will fix the 14-year-old-gamer look, and the software can be easily removed in the software store app. Be aware too that Garuda produces other, less, chaotically flashy spins. You'll have to look on their downloads page.
One of the best features of Garuda is their toolbox where you can choose a power or performance mode, and it downloads several different apps automatically relevant to each mode.
at that point just go with endeavoros@@alwayshappy2862
@@alwayshappy2862 If you use the KDE variant Yes.
Been using the dragonized kde version for about a month now and I love it. Everything just worked for me, with no issues. I love that it is really fast and the different tools it offers to help someone who is new to arch, transition. Overall, it is a great distro, especially for those who want the latest features and a stable system.
I am very pleased with my Garuda xfce edition, have not had any problems with it. I am running the latest Endeavour on my Dell laptop and that is running well also. I am very impressed with the work the Garuda dev's have done and hope to see it become even more popular as time goes by.Good video Tom thanks.
I use Garuda Linux dr460nized Edition as my daily driver, and I love it. Sure linux mint was the first distro I ever used, and I've been distro hoping on different Debian/Ubuntu based distros, but the moment I moved to Garuda, an Arch based distro, I felt like I was home. I'm not gonna lie, though, the Awesome look of the desktop enviroment was the reason why I switch to it, but I fell in love with the distro and I don't regret switching to it.
Garuda dr460nized on my main desktop for about 2 years now. Love it. Other than like 2 bad updates that broke some stuff, its been a real enjoyable experience. I use Manjaro on my laptop mainly for the known stability. After being a debian guy for ever, I can say I'm officially an Arch snob. The AUR is just too hard to beat when you need that odd piece of software.
Excellent video. Thank you so much for posting this video.
No matter how many other distros ive hopped around too ive always found my way back to garuda. It is so stable and i love the customizations. Im not a fan of the octopi store thing. Its literally my only gripe. Great video.
I switched from Windows Gaurda months ago before finding seeing this video. I think its a really solid distro and all games I've thrown at it run with no issues. I tested Mint a while back and while it was fine i found mint to be more buggy with games and for some reason performance wasnt up to scratch.
Ive switched to Garuda almost 100% on my desktop and 50/50 on my laptop. My laptop is down to the audio sounding bad on Linux so if i want to watch anything with the speakers I have to use Windows
I love Garuda... I use the lite edition. I keep going back to Garuda. I tried all sorts of distros; arch, Debian, Fedora, different spins of each one. All was good. But the ChaoticAUR is top notch. I wish arch had an app like MX snapshot. I would be in heaven then.
It's coming soon...
@@gamerking64 I hope it is.
We should have worked together and compared notes. Over the last couple years I've done exactly as you have...around close to 40 distros lol. I agree completely about the ChaoticAUR...amazing. And MX is the closest of any other distro I've tried (well, maybe YaST in OpenSUSE too) concerning built-in tools.
PS - I actually love distrohopping and I waste a lot of productive time doing it lol.
@@k.b.tidwelllol, right... Like I said, they have some fantastic tools, especially MX Snapshot. If only we (arch crowd) could get something similar to MX Snapshot, I would very happy! lol
Penguins Eggs does work on Arch to get a bootable Iso from an installed system
Garuda is just way too bloated and flashy for my tastes.
Also, I recall hearing from DT and Xero that Garuda tends to go changing things and doing things that could cause conflicts and reduce compatibility with pure Arch, which could cause problems with the AUR. I remember Garuda removed the Latte dock claiming that it was being discontinued and too hard to maintain, while the creator of XeroLinux continues to use it and blasted the devs of Garuda for being lazy.
Whatever the specifics are, Garuda just feels too slow and heavy to me, and its excessive graphical effects are only part of the reason. Not a fan.
Manjaro is leaps and bounds better that any other arch based distro I've used. Endeavour, Garuda, Archman, Arco, etc all suck compared to Manjaro in my experience. I haven't been able to keep any of them running more than a few weeks. Manjaro is 3 years now and counting.
If you haven't tried Mabox, give it a look for a fun twist on Manjaro. Absolutely the most beautiful window manager distro I've ever seen, but it has a learning curve that keeps it in my "one day I'll dive in" category. Still...so nice. And it supposedly solves some of Manjaro's issues.
@@k.b.tidwell I've played with Mabox a few times.
@@k.b.tidwellA while back I wanted to try Mabox. But I knew that I would need to have desktop scaling on my 4k monitor and I didn’t see scaling as available on Mabox(Openbox), so I didn’t install it. Still sticking with Garuda which is great! But I think that Mabox looks really beautiful.
If you ran the Garuda Welcome you would have been able to Install Either or both Gnome Software and Discover.
I have used Garuda Linux before. I liked it but was unable to continue using because I find myself necessitating a "sudo pacman -Syu" every two weeks or so; It's not a problem per-se, but based on your workflow, it will be more of a hassle than anything. As someone who is in a full time job, it's something that I would not have time to do so. I have since switched over to Debian.
Garuda Hyprland is amazing
I did the Garuda gamer addition but I did not like it and headed back to Pop OS. How ever I will most likely try Garuda out again based on that fact I tried the gamer version and need to check out the normal system. Do to how linux works it's normally better to start with a striped down version and add what you want and like to it.
what to choose ? Garuda or CachyOS .. really confusing
I would probably go garuda due to more maturity
' The Garuda Linux community prioritizes marginalized people's safety over privileged people's comfort.
The following are NOT against the Code of Conduct:
"Reverse"-isms, including "reverse racism," "reverse sexism," and "cisphobia" '
-- Garuda Linux Code of Conduct, 16 Nov 2023
Even the toobies find this sufficiently objectionable to try and hide it from view...
Would reverse racism be that you respect everyone regardless of race?
So only a dark theme is included by default?
@@hudefuk that's what it sounds like
@@HimmelsDaemon Racism is not white supremacy or hating every race but white, and sexism is not hating women or misogyny. Sexism could just as easily mean to despise men for their gender alone or give them worse treatment. An example being how few nurses are men. That is sexism as well. Though not misogyny. Racism does not only apply to whites hating one group or another. Racism could just as easily be native americans hating asians. To say otherwise means you are trying to redefine racism and sexism.
I liked most of it but the installer is very broken.
It has no option to set time to UTC, and fails to detect all hard drives (they are all detected by lsblk and all of the usual GNU partition tools) so it's impossible to install on the correct drive if your unlucky, even if it is preformatted. OpenSuse has the best installer I have found on any linux.
Oh and the Konsole setup was very buggy, adding extra chars to the start and end of many text blocks, which made reading man pages rather difficult.
it plays ur-quan masters...thats all that really matters
EndeavourOS is the best Arch distro
No good package store. I am basically lazy
Is not..
The best Arch distro ? Its Arch, all simply ! Why taking something more than the base an doin what YOU want with it by yourself ?
I'm not a Linux expert by any means ( I've been using Linux mint for years on my laptop doing work related stuff and some programming), however, I installed Garuda Linux on a new gaming rig, and let me tell you something..I was able to play everything without any issues. I ran emulators (all of the emulators I regularly use like switch, px2,px1, gamecube, etc) and I also play games on Steam and epic (hero launcher). I have no complains so far.
its quite an amazing arch distro, i still cant figure out how to set up snapshots on vanilla arch the way garuda does....garuda has its snapper snapshots automatically take everytime pacman is run, and then all of those snapshots are bootable from the grub menu.
yay timeshift-autosnap gurb-btrfs?
The commands below worked for me in both CachyOS and Archcraft.
The first step is to install the distro with the btrfs filesystem. Then use the commands below.
sudo pacman -S yay
yay -S snapper-support btrfs-assistant
I have been Linux distro hopping but I keep going back to Garuda Linux. I do not miss flatpak or snap support. Anything I've ever used that required those are in the repositories or in the AUR.
My windows 11 box sayd i need to upgrade my system so I installed Garuda Linux! Muhahahaha!!!!
I've been using it on my laptop and honestly it's the best linux experience I've had so far.
If you went through the setup assistant on Garuda, it would allow you to select another kernel.
Garuda linux was my first entry into the Linux community. To me it’s hands down the best beginner arch choice. The dragonized gamer is extremely bloated imo but the regular dragonized is just fine I’d install it and add what I wanted post install
Hey buddy, did you dual boot it? Or used it standalone
@@abhigyanbaruah4748 single boot, once i decided to leave windows, i left, but i believe during install it has option to search for other bootloaders in first menu, and the installer has install alongside during disk partition section
ive tried garuda and arch, i just dont like it. it feels like things break every update that are unfixable. i just roll with opensuse tumbleweed because it's a great combination of "power user" and stable for me. even fedora is starting to become slightly unstable, but suse has yet to give me any problems
I'll agree with you on Tumbleweed. It feels and acts very, very solid.
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I love Garuda Dr460nized and their Hyprland is extremely nice also.
Great video!
I tried pure Arch a few years ago and didn't enjoy the experience, and lived with Debian up til a year or so ago when I decided I wanted a rolling release (found Sparky after everything I'm going to tell you). Casting around for Arch derivatives that would be more beginner-friendly, I tried EndeavourOS, didn't click with it, and moved to BigLinux, which is a very nice Brazilian distro. Then I tried Garuda Dragonized and fell in love.
Everything you've admired here really impressed me too, but ultimately I went back to Debian because of one particular needed Windows writing program that runs in Wine, but which requires (as of now) specific hoop-jumping that only works under Debian. Believe me, I've tried. I was almost truly sad to not be able to stay with Garuda for my main writing machine.
Good news is I've found another FOSS program to replace that Windows program, so I'm getting several SSD's on the Black Friday sales and I'm dedicating one to Garuda to place in one of the lot of Lenovo laptops I got for experimentation purposes. I'm looking forward to it! I LOVE trying out distros, and Garuda is a fantastic one to try.
Sounds like you may be a candidate for distrobox + docker (or podman). Have distrobox install debian inside a container, and then add wine and customize it for your Windows program. This works for any host distro that supports distrobox/docker, which is pretty any distro now. As a bonus, distrobox should be able to export your program to the host desktop environment, so it appears in the application menu.
@@dktol56 I've used distrobox before, but since I get satisfaction out of getting the best performance I can out of any older hardware...I like recycling tech...I don't usually have enough cores to offer enough horsepower (to my satisfaction). But I know that sooner or later I'll try it again. My visual-thinking OCD mind gets dopamine out of one distro per install. I irrationally believe it gives a more pure bare metal experience, but that's only one way I'm weirdly different. Thanks for that suggestion, though. After you try a thousand different scenarios, you always forget about some of them.
I downloaded Garuda Dragonized kde version and I am having trouble getting the audio to work on my laptop unless I use a Bluetooth speaker, do you know how i can get the laptop speaker working??? Also it keeps freezing up on me, i still only have it on the usb thumb drive. Also do you know of any good offline GPS and mapping software for Linux. What do I need to do to get Oblivion and Skyrim working offline. I'm sorry for all the questions but i am new to Linux
I just installed the dragonized version, and can confirm its totally dope
Garuda Cinnamon is crazy good out of the box on my Nvidia GPU. I have some UI issues with Gnome and Kde but performance and features are insane, better than I have seen in any other Distro.
Well as a complete noob to Linux I've been doing a lot of distro hopping to find one that serves all my needs. Garuda is the only one that I have found that meets all my needs but (yes, there's always a but) it will not allow me to add cores to Retroarch. I play a lot of 3DO games and cannot for the life of me find a 3DO emu for Garuda or install the 3DO (Opera) core, so please, some help would be marvelous, thanks in advance
I'm fond of Garuda, but I've encountered some issues with the Linux kernel at times. Even with a Linux LTS kernel installed as a backup on my main PC, I faced booting problems about a year ago. However, about 14 days ago, I decided to give it another try, as you can see here. I still believe it's one of the best operating systems for gaming.
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I've been using Manjaro for quite a few years now on my desktop (as of now, 16GiB RAM and a pretty good, 16-core Intel CPU; I'm happy with it. I've hardly ever had any trouble, and it's kind of _my_ optimum of being cutting-edge and stability, plus the awesome community. Personal taste, though.
As for my desktop, Garuda wouldn't cut it. Lenovo G50 with 4 GiBs of RAM and a traditional HDD... Well, it's a potato. For that kind of machine, I'd recommend Mabox for those who, like myself, prefer Arch-based distros that have undergone a tad more testing than vanilla Arch.
Garuda _does_ look gorgeous, and from what I've seen of it, I'd like to check it out some time. But for now, I'm feeling _so_ at home with Manjaro and Mabox, I can't see myself going back to distro-hopping anytime soon.
Good video, though.
Yuzu and Citra are being discontinued. Can we still install those two?
P. S. I would add Cemu and Vita3k to that list of emulators;)
In missing options, you say there is no gui add software option, yet in the Garuda Welcome window, there is an "Add/Remove Software" icon.
It does not do anything. I didn't show it in the video, but that will load the default software installer on the system, but this version of Garuda does not have one, so pushing the button does not do anything.
Old Net/Sys Admin here.... The only negative thing I can say about Garuda is its default Seizure-Causing Color Scheme. IMO, their setup/usage of repos is better than most Arch based distros. I've had way-fewer update issues (almost non-existent) with dependencies.
Get a grip on yourself my splendid dude, the color scheme is gorgeous & you should definetely put gentoo on your machines and suffer accordingly, hope this helps...
With Garuda, I was able to profile my monitor with DisplayCal, which I can't ever get to work in other distros anymore since it depends on ArgyllCMS, which depends on an outdated version of Python. I don't know what to do about this, I've heard people suggest using the flatpack of DisplayCal, but with Garuda it was pre-installed and just worked right away. I can't believe more distros don't include DisplayCal, it's crucial to calibrate your monitor if you do anything where you manipulate colour. PopOS comes all ready to run Davinci Resolve, so they say anyway, and yet, no way to profile your monitor. Once in a while, something in Garuda breaks for me, but so far, turning it off and on again has been able to fix pretty much anything that goes wrong. A lot of stuff that just works in Garuda would be a bit of a pain to set up myself. Anyway I like it, keeping it for now. It's a bit heavy I suppose compared to others, a bit flashy and not even claiming to be stable, but it has a lot of advantages, looks cool, and relatively easy to use for a Windows boomer like myself.
I love Garuda but Im,not a fan of octopi. Maybe im just used to app stores or maybe octopi is bare bones either way I loathe having to use it.
Garuda definitely looks nice for sure. If I wasn't already happy on my hyprland setup w/ CachyOS I'd maybe take a look at their spin.
If you are not a total noob, CachyOS is fantastic. But Garuda is better for new users. I like to install more apps myself nowadays, so I'd rather use Cachy now, but if I were to recommend an Arch based distro to someone I know, it would most likely be Garuda.
I had a really bad experience with garuda gaming edition before I knew about tiling window managers and it drove me to rage quit. It has been decades since I used linux full time so this video is weirdly specific to my interests at the moment.
I preffer flatpak instead of the aur, but the aur is really usefull sometimes for that odd driver or other software like you said.
Best arch is arch
Funny comment but do you gusy know parch shocking a nice distro of arch thats more arch than even manjaro or edeavour
What does htop show in Garuda after it starts? How does it compare to ArcoLinux, CachyOS?
I wish these assistant tools would also be in Ubuntu.
would certainly help people new to Linux
atm looking for a Linux based replacement for Windows, basically if I can make it feel like I'm working with Win XP or 7, and play any games I've played over the past 25 years I'm sold, this does seem like it comes closest to what I'm looking for
You might start on Linux Mint as it may be more stable. Thanks for watching!
If it's old games and Windows 7 vibes, Mint ought to be a good fit. For more modern games I've had better results with Fedora. Probably more important, Gnome instead of Cinnamon for the desktop environment helped with some games. Cinnamon is pretty friendly for Windows vibes, but in some more modern games it has some pretty bad stuttering with my AMD card. Haven't tried Garuda yet, but that and Nobara would be next on my list to try if I wasn't content with Fedora.
But really, once you have Steam and Bottles or Lutris or Wine installed, most distros are probably going to be roughly the same for gaming. At worst, you might have to fiddle a bit for some games (e.g. installing Gnome instead of Cinnamon, or downloading a few extra packages like I had to do for some RenPy games in Fedora). As far as I can tell, the biggest things the distro determines for you are (1) desktop environment (2) package manager (3) update cadence and (4) preinstalled software. If a game is totally borked or unrunnable on distro , I'd be surprised if it was fine on distro .
@@ordinaryhuman5645 it's a mixture of very old, and modern games that came out in the last few years
@@ordinaryhuman5645 Bear in mind that Lutris does not support Mint with Cinnamon. Just like with multi-booting Garuda, if you want to do it, you are on your own when it goes wrong and they will deny support even for completely unrelated issues.
@@kpcraftster6580I didn't know that, but when I was having Mint/Cinammon issues it was with games on Steam with Proton; I don't think I had tried Lutris until more recently on Fedora.
I'm about to install Garuda Linux Cinnamon!
For slightly older systems is there anything essential that the KDE version brings that XFCE lacks?
Mostly KDE and Gnome both have more integration for online accounts; there are a few other streamlining things for modern computing, but if you don't need any of that, xfce is better.
I installed it just 2 days ago onto my external SSD for my Steam Deck. After updating, I restarted and it failed to boot back up. TTY screen said Zen-kernel and below that it said RAM Disk fail, or something like that. I gave it the benefit of the doubt and tried again. Same thing. Perhaps changing kernels might be a good thing for me in this case.
Most probably a bad download, a bad USB drive, bad formatting. I had that problem until I got a new flash drive.
Both the OS SSD that the OS was installed on were fine until after rebooting after updating.@@zordanxxx
Garuda is best Linux ever 👍👍👍
I find Garuda a bit too fancy I prefer Manjaro
I prefer arco but garuda is great :)
Installed Garuda Linux in a old Samsung Tablet PC. Runs pretty good.
Hi! I have a (currently soft-bricked) samsung galaxy tab pro 12" from about 10 years ago.
Any chance yours is the same?
Whatever the case, does it run fine in the tablet?
I've been loving my Garuda Dr460nized "gaming edition" OS on the various systems it's installed on. I just wish my older high end Dell laptop with the Nvidia video subsystem would play well with Garuda. It's actually what I downloaded it for initially and it won't even run "live" let alone on bare metal. I've tried to load it with both Open Source and Proprietary source drivers for the Nvidia card. No dice.
Thx for the infos, good video, I am new to Linux, trying out Garuda dragonized gaming since few Months now, like to learn new practical stuff
you need to defrag linux?
I love Garuda
Made in 🇮🇳 🎉🎉🎉
How do i connect to wifi using an wifi adapter
Most adaptors just need plugged in and it shows up. However, if it is not recognized you might need to check if they have drivers for it. FYI TPLink adaptors do not work with Linux out of the box.
Ok, can someone please explain me, when people say arch always installs the absolute bleeding version of a software, does it mean it install beta software builds??? Or just the latest stable version?
Basically as soon as a version update of a build is published, it hits Arch. They really do mean bleeding edge, no Bandaids lol.
after 10 yrs and probably over 20+ distros garuda has been my go to for the past 2 yrs.
Garuda: Presenting KDE Dragonized Gaming Edition
Me: Nice, can I multi-boot it?
Garuda: Dual-boot has never been and will never be supported.
Me: With linux gaming being what it is, isn't that a rather odd hard-line stance to take?
Garuda: Our distro was never intended for gaming.
Me: But you just announced something called "gaming edition"...
Garuda: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hmmm. I've multi-booted it on two or three different machines several times.
Garuda Code of Conduct indicates their community is Wokeville!
Who cares. I don't ever interact with a distro community. The real answers to anything you want to find are not in forums they are in man pages.
Manpages are often confusing and don't always address workarounds for specific hardware or packages.@@Kelticfury
@@Kelticfury In order to be woke, you first need to be lacking intellect and/or integrity. Would you trust someone so lacking in intellect and/or integrity with your OS?
Edit: Or to put it another way, can you trust people who think they should police their community against wrong-think, to not create backdoors in your system to help with policing against wrong-think?
Thanks, almost touched it. Yuck.
lol what a nerd thing to worry about. Probably a distro hopping windows user. 😂
The Best Arch Distro is MANJARO !!
Manjaro would be good if they got their act together. Everytime I've used manjaro an update broke the system. Made it. Impossible to use for long. This was just my experience though
@@bpomp22 I have been using Manjaro for 3 years. I activate aur repositories. I update the system daily with yay -Syu and sudo pacman -Syyu ... 0 problem. solid as a rock. doesn't break.
@@bpomp22 ya I ran it from 2015 -2021 with very few problems.. then beginning in 2021 it just kept breaking over and over. Over a 6 month period I had way more problems than the previous 6 yrs combined. have been on garuda for about a year and so far so good.. an occasional conflict that 10 minutes of research sorts out
I'm not an expert, this is the longest I've been on a distro and Gaia keeps going strong even with my lack of sense and desdain. Yet it's been a great experience for what I need.