I totally agree. I'm running it on 4 gb of RAM and it's still smooth. I've been going back and forth between arch based distros and I keep coming back to Garuda. It's just great.
What are your thoughts on Endeavour, do you still use Garuda today? I'm planning on switching from Pop OS to Arch based distros, and I can't decide between the two
@@goxzvt I haven't used Endeavour all that much, so I couldn't tell you. But if you're between the two, maybe try them both and keep the one that works better for you. I'm not using Garuda now because I wanted to try Wayland so I'm using main line Arch with Hyprland. Another distribution that may work for you is Xero Linux. I think any of them would be great to start with Arch.
@@mikacasaubon8219 So I'm actually trying out Garuda Hyprland, I think it looks great but definitely it's for a more advanced user than I am though it looks great, it lacks in compatibility for some apps like sharing screen on Discord
I 100% agree. I used garuda as my daily driver as well. Love it. I distro hopped like crazy over the last year just for fun to try out different distros based on arch, Debian, Ubuntu and fedora. I also tried doing vanilla installs and building my own several times. All I can say is that in the end I went back in re-installed Garuda and have been using it ever since. I highly suggest it.
I'm firmly anchored in the Garuda/Fedora/NixOS. I'm rather new to Linux, been using it for about 7-8 months on different machines and it has been good to me. It's by no means as simple to manage as windows, but it's not all that annoying. I use Fedora for my house IoT (this runs all the cameras, all the door solenoids, sensors and ACs. So far I haven't seen any problems or even a single crash. It's been living in a modest machine I built out of spare parts - i7 6700k and 16 gigs of ddr3 and it hasn't complained about it thus far.
I use garuda linux on all my computers, my laptop has had the same install of garuda for 1.5 years and it is still working great. Great stability, and experience! props to the garuda team!
it broke for me after about 2 weeks, mainly because i like to customize things, and garuda doesn't like when i want to change a program for another one. or replace a DE. so im back on clean arch. it did teach me a lot, for example to use timeshift, that was great.
YOU are one of the FEW reviewers I will LISTEN to-- and to me YOUR WORD is good.. it's all I need- so this sounds VERY good. I love my MX and it's hard to turn that loose. BUT this does sound good, and I can CHANGE the look.. I like it at first- thoght it was beautiful- but after a few days---not so much. Whether I agree with you or not-- I kNOW I can count on you to say WHAT IS-- regardless of like, dislike or whatever.
I just can agree on you eBuzz, I'm using Garuda since March and I've never looked back to Windows. I'M gaming using DaVinci Resolve and use it as my main daily computer. I hadn't any issues with the GRUB bug as well. :D
I am a linux dummy. I switched from windows xp to linux mint debian 4 last year and am very happy with it. Can't switch to version 5. I borked it up by deleting keyring somehow. Guess I'll download a version 5 distro and start over. You do good work...thanks for all the info about Windblows, lol.
I've been distros hopping, and I keep coming back to Garuda. The only thing I do not like about Garuda is the colors they use as their default. But if I was a first time user, and did not know how to change it. I would still use it. Because of the tools, ease of use, and it's easy to fix any of the problems I have came up to.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed would be an excellent distro to try out. It's amazingly stable, rolling release and I've been using it as my daily driver for years.
I see, that sounds like a very interesting distro to try out sometime. i would definitely would like to try it if its amazingly stable and has rolling release. Thank you very much for informing.
Hey man, thank you for all of your time, effort, and expense in delivering content like this. I really enjoy all of it. I couldn't agree more with your evaluation conclusions. Garuda Linux has helped me be almost 100% free of Windows on my personal computers. And when I really need Windows functionality, I have a Windows virtual client to fall back on. I do need that occasionally, but less and less by the day and I use the very benign Windows Xp. as opposed to Windows 11. Windows 11 really finished me off and I refuse to play by Microsoft's invasive new business model. Garuda made it very easy to do all of this and they truly have a fantastic forum, especially for folks new to Linux. They are hard to beat!
Mint is great - I was also running it with XCFE. But still prefer the rolling release of Arch - therefore Garuda is my main. Also performance seems to be better on my computer (old hardware). It's impressive how smooth Garuda is with all the effects enabled. But have to admit with Mint I had really 0 issues vs 2 issues with Garuda - but that's the tradeoff with rolling releases I guess.
Garuda is excellent. I had some issues that had to do with Garuda not allowing me to do some things the way I like to do them. I use grub-customizer now and then for certain things, but Garuda blocks it because it has its own similar utility. If the Garuda utility actually worked like it should, that would be fine, but it doesn't. I dual-boot and triple-boot different distros on several PCs, which makes grub customizer a very handy utility. Garuda just wouldn't play nice in a multi-boot situation, even when trying to edit the grub config manually, so I couldn't use it. I have the exact same problem with Manjaro blocking grub customizer. ArcoLinux is my main Arch distro. It lets me do what I want. But Debian Sid Cinnamon is the one that I always fall back to when other distros give me problems. Debian Sid Plasma, XFCE, Gnome, MATE, LXDE, and LXQT are also good, if you prefer those environments. Just make sure you get the Unofficial ISO with firmware. For Sid, you want to download the unofficial weekly build, which is Debian 12 Testing Bookworm. After installing, add the Sid repo and do a full upgrade. With Debian, it generally sets you up as a standard user. To have sudo privileges in the terminal, you need to change that to an administrator and reboot. That's very simple in Cinnamon, but may not be as straight-forward in other DEs. Also, if gnome-software gets installed with the desktop you choose, remove it. It eats about 150 mb of RAM all the time, even if you never open it. It would be interesting to see how Debian Sid worked for the things you do. Just know that Debian doesn't do much of anything for you. You have to know what you want, and where to find it, though most anything you would need is in the Sid repos. Sid is currently using the 5.19 kernel. It tends to lag a week or two behind Arch with such things, but I'd still call it rolling.
I love the UI, especially the transparency and animated window movement. If I were to nitpick, I'd like to be able to specify what apps I want to install pre-installation rather than uninstall them afterwards, but that's no biggie. I'm hoping for a new system by Christmas and right now, it'll be Garuda or Nobaro for a gaming-focused high-end Linux desktop.
Perfect timing on the video. I used the very first Garuda linux that came out. The look grabbed my attention, but it was buggy. I'm coming back to Garuda to check it out again to see all the new updates. Thanks for your video. I am looking to have an everyday driver of Garuda. I will say I don't like the new terminal look. I like the OG one I am glade I was able to access my old install of Garuda. I copied my config.fish and installed neofech. It looks like the original terminal.
There is a distro that I haven't seen a long term review yet, Solus. I heve heard of people swearing (hearsay) by Solus in passing, but I haven't seen any long term reviews for it.
WOW another great video. And Yes I agree 100% . I have running on my main Lenovo Laptop beside MX Linux on the same machine. It's great and very smooth. Thumsb Up and more of these and as always Greetings from Germany .😀
Garuda was the first Linux distro I tried out and ran. Would of been Mint but my trackpad on my laptop would not work on anything Debian based, anyway I remembered seeing people do a "first look" on the OS and the ease of use for every single user paired with outstanding UI elements make it one of the potential operating systems I might jump to if I ever jump away from Windows
Hi - great video thanks. Totally agree on your points. I have Garuda as my main distro running for already 1 year - and will keep running it. The only issues I had were when there was the major KDE upgrade (small, but annoying things didn't work for one/two weeks until it was fixed) and the second one was when using the linux-zen kernel after the upgrade to kernel 6 I got issues with my proprietary nvidia driver and it wasn't working. Switching to linux-lts (kernel 5) did the job. I would highly encourage every Garuda user to install LTS at least in addition (if not as the main kernel), as there is not too much benefit on zen especially if you don't have cutting edge hardware. When I was using Suse or Kubuntu I hated KDE and was a long time Gnome user, but Garuda made me loving KDE again.
I use Garuda Qtile on my laptop cos their configuration of Qtile feels perfect for modern laptops IMO and i like that it comes with jgmenu so i only have to memorise a few of the basic keyboard shortcuts.
Yes, great review! Don't know how you manage to keep up with all of this having 5 kids to bring up as a single parent. Awesome job! There were a few glitches when installing the Gnome version to bare metal including updating problems. I therefore installed the vanilla Linux kernel via pacman which seemed to improve this for some reason. These sort of little bugs might be enough to deter newbies though. Anyway if you have some previous Linux experience, these are not really deal-breakers. The installed distro is awesome and gets a big recommendation from me despite the glitches.
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Im a recent Linux convert from windows, first used Mint for a couple weeks to get used to the difference, did some researching and settled on trying out Garuda and im pretty happy with it. Garuda definitely fits the "Just Works Distro" tag and even if you arent a "Gamer" its still has some strong points.
I have an MSI GP65 laptop with RTX 2060 and a fresh install of Garuda KDE Lite. It has been running smooth for me as well. I previously had Manjaro KDE installed, used it for over a year with few issues here or there. Recently I got tired of Manjaro losing wifi (showing the wired connection icon with a red x) after I would log back in. Manjaro also would freeze when I would reboot to fix the wireless fail issue. So far I'm really enjoying Garuda. I will continue to use it on my gaming laptop.
For me, I love Ubuntu MATE. It just works flawlessly with my ASUS TUF GAMING F17 laptop. Love Linux. No more Windows and being forced to use M$ defaults and hoping they don't release a new OS that'll make my system obsolete.... LINUX RULES! Your content RULES! Keep up the great work.
Ive gone back and forth between Garuda and Arco for the past two years, using a 500GB WD 5200RPM HDD. I love both distros but I was getting slight screen tearing on my browsers. I recently installed a Samsung 980 Pro M.2 SSD. Erik is awesome from Arclolinux, but getting Nvidia drivers installed is always a pain. On Garuda, no problem so thanks to this (and your many Vids), I'm making the move back to Garuda/KDE for DD
same here, but i will leave garuda, because Updates doesnßt show anymore. This is the second Arch based linux i used and for me this is a elemental function that must work in a rolling release linux
The feature isn't broken, I have Garuda running on my daily production machine and on my media center in my living room. Two different laptops, two different architectures, it reminds me every time. So even if it reminds me to update on a wednesday, I still update my system every Sunday.
@@hammerschaedel i dont think ive ever ran into that issue personally with any linux distro ive used and ive been hopping around linux for about 7 years now.
It’s the most power efficient distro as well. This is super important and often not remembered. Once I replaced the zen kernel for the traditional kernel and activated the power saving tweaks - all a few clicks away, all GUI based, no command line requirements - my laptop has become whisper quiet. Also, it is one of the few Linux distros that fully support Btrfs and snapshots, including GRUB integration. This is such a powerful feature, I can’t have a Linux distro without it anymore.
Always a pleasure to watch your videos. The reason microshaft sucks so bad is that I believe it's Always tracking, watching, reporting all the data it can about you. Why else would so much ram be utilized when at idle. I've been trying to convert and show people why they need to abandon closed source software including Crapple...
I've tried Garuda (dragonized version) before and it seems to stutter for me. The mini-pc I tried it on is a powerful one---minisforum HX90 with an AMD 5900HX APU. I ended up uninstalling it and going to Manjaro. Manjaro has its own problems too but after switching the audio to pipewire and kernel to the zen kernel, it's been running much better. Now I'm on MX Linux which I like even more than Manjaro. I didn't even know it was #1 on distrowatch when I switched. It's running much better than any other Linux distros I've tried so far recently. My only hard part is at the beginning when I tried to install it using the BTRFS file system instead of the default ext4. I have to partition my SSD in a specific way for it to work. After figuring this out though, it's been running great! It has a lot of built-in tools for tweaking. I'm using the KDE Plasma edition of MX Linux instead of Xfce. It's the only distro I've tried so far that runs so well that it doesn't even drop frames for me when watching RUclips videos online at 4K 60fps! It doesn't even slow down when I'm almost maxing my 32GB RAM having several browsers open with 100+ tabs each and other apps in the background. It also plays all my media files without missing a beat! I did quite a few tweaks to customize it to my liking. I changed the bash shell to zsh and added custom themes and plugins. So far I've tried Ubuntu, Fedora 36, Manjaro, Zorin , Garuda, Endeavor, Pop! OS, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, etc . and MX Linux with KDE Plasma tops all of them so far for me in usability, customizability, and most of all... stability. 💪
Endeavour is basic. It’s just Arch with a few random thing’s installed. Nothing special. Garuda is actually special though as it has unique tools and update scripts and proper good stuff you don’t need to change after installation. Endeavour is just another easy arch install like manjaro and arco etc
@@clankfish well it’s arch plus a desktop environment and software on top of it isn’t it? I know they have their own repositories which I think makes it even worse than stock arch but other than that isn’t it an easy arch install with an extra repository on top? It’s been a while since I used manjaro though so I don’t remember exactly how it ran other than it bricking my system so I reinstalled it once or twice
It's really beautiful and fun to use... however I run into issues I haven't had before on other distros... (intermittent locking, weird sound configuration stuff, long start up times, things failing to start) but they tend to have answers and workarounds. I may have to dual boot with another distro. My suggestion would be try a base version that lets you use different desktops. (e.g. Debian, Slackware, etc)
@@AaronGravesthegravesmeister Could you share your particular reasons? I'm still on the fence about Garuda myself and interested in what those that have tried it have to say.
@@DarkVeghetta I don't know other than I guess it was just too flashy. Cool in some ways though. I just really like how clean, stable and simple fedora cinnamon is. If I ever got tired of Fedora, Garuda might be my second choice.
I'm trying to move away from Windows as my daily driver. Not move entirely away from it (for now), but I've been wanting to make Linux my go-to OS for various things: my daily work (ability to log into my work VDIs, Dot Net programming, etc) as well as just day-to-day fun things (watching RUclips videos, etc) but then the big one: gaming. Having read through what Proton provides, especially with the inroads the Steamdeck has done recently, I decided it was time to give Linux another shot as my daily driver. I used it mainly for programming in a VM under Windows, but I wanted to be able to harness the full power of my hardware using Linux directly and not through virtualization nor having to be in Windows to use it. I went through many distros (Pop OS, Garuda and then I tried Nobara). Garuda is what I kept as I had another drive I was testing out other distros. But in the end, Garuda was the one I stuck with. It didn't work out of the box for some things mainly directed towards gaming (such as my XBox 360 controller until I installed the xboxrv driver), but overall, everything else worked beautifully. Nobara, while it's aimed at gaming, was nice but things are very unstable and it just seems finicky and it took a lot of tinkering to make it work. Sort of reminds me of my early days with Linux in 1992 trying to get SLS up and running on my 80286 back then! It was fun, but these days, I'm needing something that works after installing. Garuda is the one for me. I've been on it for weeks and other distros I've tested just don't seem to do it for me. Yes, I understand Garuda is based on Arch Linux and doesn't have the LTS concept such as Ubuntu, Pop OS and Mint. But Garuda just seems to feel better for me. Plus, I do like to live on the "bleeding edge" but not to the extend of what Nobara is. Garuda feels like it has that fine mixture of stability mixed with some bleeding edginess to it, and I like that.
I've been using Fedora 36 on this ASUS Vivobook for a while now and haven't had any issues - Other than installing codecs and third party repo's which is easy enough to do. And the first few updates are a ridiculously large and constant. Seems to have settled down now. Although Fedora doesn't work well with my Acer Nitro, so Garuda will go on there if Manjaro dies a horrible death at any stage - so far so good.
I'm glad you had a good time my friend. I wasn't able to do much last week, had three different jobs going on at the same time, getting back on my schedule this week though. Hope you and your family are well.
the only bugs ive ever had with Garuda is KDE being buggy, and well... you can't really avoid that. I've tried other DEs but kde is just the best for me. Sucks every once and a while it finds a way to break itself.
Yeah, I just installed the dr460nized Gamer Edition and tried to change the global theme, but found it breaking stuff: some items stay in "dark theme" and then both the old and the new desktop layouts appearing on tip of each other after reboot. Other than that, I think I might like Garuda. Hopefully the theme stuff can be fixed. :(
A while ago I did a minimal install comparison between arch and tumbleweed with kde as the desktop, and on a fresh boot arch used 493 mb of ram, where tumbleweed used 459 mb of ram, arch also took 4.92 gb of disk space, where tumbleweed only took 3.18 gb of disk space.
thanks forthe PROXY tweak for images.. and anything else like that you find. I learn- and KEEP NOTES on all that-- so when, or IF I use it-- I can make use of it.
Interesting review. I'm new to Linux and I'm trying it out as an ISO file on a thumb drive. Beautiful interface and it seems to work well. How does it compare to: Fedora, Debian and Zorin? Can you add a second or third workspace or desktop on a particular version - like KDE plasma with Gnome?
I disabled the global menubar, enabled light-mode and krita bright, then moved the main panel to the top. With those changes, garuda is my favorite distro
I guess I don't seem to be concerned about RAM usage at rest BUT I generally use distros like this on 8 GIG or more of RAM. I think even 4 GIG seems to be OK with 2,3 or even 4 sort, of RAM-hungry apps. Linux just plain beats the hell out of RAM usage. I'm using MX because it's not based on anything but Debian.
I have been using Garuda with gnome for some time now. There appears to be some bugs with gnome but that may not be the distros fault. However I have tried other arch builds and other Linux distros and I always find myself coming back to Garuda because it just works and I can get the apps I need without worrying about whether they're in the repository or not because if they're not they're usually in the AUR.
Thoughts on ZorinOS? It surprised me how nothing was breaking. Ive been distro hopping for the past month looking for "the one". Zorin didnt disappoint. I've been using it for about 2 weeks, mostly for development and browsing.
Fedora silverblue gnome 37 (have to wait a few more weeks) OR Ubuntu Mate 22.04.1, Linux Mint 21 cinnamon or MX-Linux 21.2 xfce or kde are the next linux 90 day test distros
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Thanks. This was a very useful video. Just curious if you knew that provided the right graphics card in a powerful desktop, I would be able to run three 4k monitors @60HZ with Garuda Linux installed properly and not as a VM. 🙏
I always say ram is not unused, it is available for my apps, if windows blocks 3gb of my 8gb ram, I only have 5gb for my apps, gnome only blocks about 800mb of ram, hence I have over 7gb of rams for my apps.
@@eBuzzCentral awesome Troy, im on Garuda Gnome, somehow i tried MS Edge on it, and it seems it wont open at all, even the ungoogled chrome, do you experience it as well?
I actually had to install pamac, because the one I tried to install from octopi would not load, so I uninstalled it, installed pamac and installed that version and it worked.
I'd like to see you try Nobara. It's the "new kid on the block" and what few videos there are, the creator basically just installs it, says it's great and then it's gone.
thats what i wanted to hear i tried all the gaming linux distros even pop os holo iso and chimera, garuda is by far the best user experience its a proper os
I did a live install of Garuda Dragonized gaming edition on a 16gb usb thumb drive and I can't get the sound working on my laptop speaker, can you please help me. My laptop is a Panasonic toughbook CF-19ZA813DM with 16gb of ram and a 1tb Samsung 850 pro sata ssd. Also do you know of any good offline GPS software and how I can play Oblivion and Skyrim offline
Just installed it. I did not modify anything, only getting use to the basic interface for now. I rebooted the pc and now i'm stuck in 640x480, when prior, the resolution was 1920x1080. Kind of suck. Can see my screen or open anything because it to big.
This OS is so cool and one of the ones I have been trying out a bit as I continue my journey away from Windows and towards Linux. I just have a question that might be kind of silly so I apologize. >.> Ive been trying the super fancy "KDE Dr460nized" version and I love how it looks and stuff, and it seems to fix some issues I had with earlier distros (reading/using multiple drives, etc). But Im having trouble getting used to the GUI and stuff, it is just so different from what I'm used to, like how it moves the min/max/close buttons onto the dock/bar, etc. Im wondering if I use the Cinnamon version, would it be the same features under the hood, or would I be giving up some of Garuda's main features/etc?
Regata looks really good too. but I haven't tried it. Nobara also.. Those two and garuda are all in the same class IMO.. They are all gaming oriented and offer a lot of preinstalled stuff; super easy for a noob
Been using Garuda Cinnamon for over a year. I have downloaded the newest versions of Cinnamon, Dr460nized and XFCE 231029 to install on new HDD. When I installed Garuda before I had no problems, considering I am a Newbie. I Installed OS, updated OS, then Garuda Assistant to install all packages on OS. When I install any of the (3) 231029 OS’s it installs okay but will not UPDATE, always error (can not resolve dependencies) then going to the Garuda Assistant is out of the question. Any help is appreciated. Is Fastboot & Secure Boot turned on or off in this procedure. I thought I’d done with & without but no change, no UPDATE completed.
I totally agree. I'm running it on 4 gb of RAM and it's still smooth. I've been going back and forth between arch based distros and I keep coming back to Garuda. It's just great.
What are your thoughts on Endeavour, do you still use Garuda today? I'm planning on switching from Pop OS to Arch based distros, and I can't decide between the two
@@goxzvt I haven't used Endeavour all that much, so I couldn't tell you. But if you're between the two, maybe try them both and keep the one that works better for you. I'm not using Garuda now because I wanted to try Wayland so I'm using main line Arch with Hyprland. Another distribution that may work for you is Xero Linux. I think any of them would be great to start with Arch.
@@mikacasaubon8219 So I'm actually trying out Garuda Hyprland, I think it looks great but definitely it's for a more advanced user than I am though it looks great, it lacks in compatibility for some apps like sharing screen on Discord
I 100% agree. I used garuda as my daily driver as well. Love it. I distro hopped like crazy over the last year just for fun to try out different distros based on arch, Debian, Ubuntu and fedora. I also tried doing vanilla installs and building my own several times. All I can say is that in the end I went back in re-installed Garuda and have been using it ever since. I highly suggest it.
Which gaming edition vs Norma
I'm firmly anchored in the Garuda/Fedora/NixOS. I'm rather new to Linux, been using it for about 7-8 months on different machines and it has been good to me. It's by no means as simple to manage as windows, but it's not all that annoying. I use Fedora for my house IoT (this runs all the cameras, all the door solenoids, sensors and ACs. So far I haven't seen any problems or even a single crash. It's been living in a modest machine I built out of spare parts - i7 6700k and 16 gigs of ddr3 and it hasn't complained about it thus far.
I use garuda linux on all my computers, my laptop has had the same install of garuda for 1.5 years and it is still working great. Great stability, and experience! props to the garuda team!
Thanks for sharing
it broke for me after about 2 weeks, mainly because i like to customize things, and garuda doesn't like when i want to change a program for another one. or replace a DE. so im back on clean arch. it did teach me a lot, for example to use timeshift, that was great.
Did you say great stability?
"Debian has joined the server"
After a decent distrohopping I decided to give Garuda a try and after using it for 3 months I must admit it is a best arch-based distro so far.
YOU are one of the FEW reviewers I will LISTEN to-- and to me YOUR WORD is good.. it's all I need- so this sounds VERY good. I love my MX and it's hard to turn that loose. BUT this does sound good, and I can CHANGE the look.. I like it at first- thoght it was beautiful- but after a few days---not so much. Whether I agree with you or not-- I kNOW I can count on you to say WHAT IS-- regardless of like, dislike or whatever.
💯 I'm relatively new, but from everything I've seen I agee.
*WOW*
Use it since 6 months, best operating system I used in 25 years of computing.
I just can agree on you eBuzz, I'm using Garuda since March and I've never looked back to Windows.
I'M gaming using DaVinci Resolve and use it as my main daily computer. I hadn't any issues with the GRUB bug as well. :D
I am a linux dummy. I switched from windows xp to linux mint debian 4 last year and am very happy with it. Can't switch to version 5. I borked it up by deleting keyring somehow. Guess I'll download a version 5 distro and start over. You do good work...thanks for all the info about Windblows, lol.
I've been distros hopping, and I keep coming back to Garuda. The only thing I do not like about Garuda is the colors they use as their default. But if I was a first time user, and did not know how to change it. I would still use it. Because of the tools, ease of use, and it's easy to fix any of the problems I have came up to.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed would be an excellent distro to try out. It's amazingly stable, rolling release and I've been using it as my daily driver for years.
It stopped my distro-hopping.
I see, that sounds like a very interesting distro to try out sometime. i would definitely would like to try it if its amazingly stable and has rolling release. Thank you very much for informing.
Hey man, thank you for all of your time, effort, and expense in delivering content like this. I really enjoy all of it. I couldn't agree more with your evaluation conclusions. Garuda Linux has helped me be almost 100% free of Windows on my personal computers. And when I really need Windows functionality, I have a Windows virtual client to fall back on. I do need that occasionally, but less and less by the day and I use the very benign Windows Xp. as opposed to Windows 11. Windows 11 really finished me off and I refuse to play by Microsoft's invasive new business model. Garuda made it very easy to do all of this and they truly have a fantastic forum, especially for folks new to Linux. They are hard to beat!
Use Linux mint, but use the Nala package Manager. And the cinnamon desktop has never failed me. Never broke down, or froze, and it's easy to use.
Mint is great - I was also running it with XCFE. But still prefer the rolling release of Arch - therefore Garuda is my main. Also performance seems to be better on my computer (old hardware). It's impressive how smooth Garuda is with all the effects enabled. But have to admit with Mint I had really 0 issues vs 2 issues with Garuda - but that's the tradeoff with rolling releases I guess.
This is a beautiful distro! It's truly one of the most visual distros of Linux! Great video.. awesome stuff!
Garuda has been on one of my machines for about a 1.5 years. It's an excellent daily driver.
Garuda is excellent. I had some issues that had to do with Garuda not allowing me to do some things the way I like to do them. I use grub-customizer now and then for certain things, but Garuda blocks it because it has its own similar utility. If the Garuda utility actually worked like it should, that would be fine, but it doesn't. I dual-boot and triple-boot different distros on several PCs, which makes grub customizer a very handy utility. Garuda just wouldn't play nice in a multi-boot situation, even when trying to edit the grub config manually, so I couldn't use it. I have the exact same problem with Manjaro blocking grub customizer. ArcoLinux is my main Arch distro. It lets me do what I want. But Debian Sid Cinnamon is the one that I always fall back to when other distros give me problems. Debian Sid Plasma, XFCE, Gnome, MATE, LXDE, and LXQT are also good, if you prefer those environments. Just make sure you get the Unofficial ISO with firmware. For Sid, you want to download the unofficial weekly build, which is Debian 12 Testing Bookworm. After installing, add the Sid repo and do a full upgrade. With Debian, it generally sets you up as a standard user. To have sudo privileges in the terminal, you need to change that to an administrator and reboot. That's very simple in Cinnamon, but may not be as straight-forward in other DEs. Also, if gnome-software gets installed with the desktop you choose, remove it. It eats about 150 mb of RAM all the time, even if you never open it. It would be interesting to see how Debian Sid worked for the things you do. Just know that Debian doesn't do much of anything for you. You have to know what you want, and where to find it, though most anything you would need is in the Sid repos. Sid is currently using the 5.19 kernel. It tends to lag a week or two behind Arch with such things, but I'd still call it rolling.
I love the UI, especially the transparency and animated window movement. If I were to nitpick, I'd like to be able to specify what apps I want to install pre-installation rather than uninstall them afterwards, but that's no biggie. I'm hoping for a new system by Christmas and right now, it'll be Garuda or Nobaro for a gaming-focused high-end Linux desktop.
Thanks for good reviews. Gonna give it a try
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La voy a instalar. Muchas Gracias !! Saludos desde Argentina. Actualmente estoy en KDE neon 5.25 y la verdad no tuve problemas . Es muy recomendable.
Perfect timing on the video. I used the very first Garuda linux that came out. The look grabbed my attention, but it was buggy. I'm coming back to Garuda to check it out again to see all the new updates. Thanks for your video. I am looking to have an everyday driver of Garuda. I will say I don't like the new terminal look. I like the OG one I am glade I was able to access my old install of Garuda. I copied my config.fish and installed neofech. It looks like the original terminal.
Totally agree. I was on manjaro but Garuda really surprised me. Even my bluetooth dongle is finally working on Linux.
Yoo, I'm using Manjaro now. Is your opinion still the same after 7 months? If yes, I'll switch to Garuda right away
There is a distro that I haven't seen a long term review yet, Solus. I heve heard of people swearing (hearsay) by Solus in passing, but I haven't seen any long term reviews for it.
I like Solus but the repos are meh
WOW another great video. And Yes I agree 100% . I have running on my main Lenovo Laptop beside MX Linux on the same machine. It's great and very smooth. Thumsb Up and more of these and as always Greetings from Germany .😀
Garuda was the first Linux distro I tried out and ran. Would of been Mint but my trackpad on my laptop would not work on anything Debian based, anyway I remembered seeing people do a "first look" on the OS and the ease of use for every single user paired with outstanding UI elements make it one of the potential operating systems I might jump to if I ever jump away from Windows
Hi - great video thanks. Totally agree on your points. I have Garuda as my main distro running for already 1 year - and will keep running it. The only issues I had were when there was the major KDE upgrade (small, but annoying things didn't work for one/two weeks until it was fixed) and the second one was when using the linux-zen kernel after the upgrade to kernel 6 I got issues with my proprietary nvidia driver and it wasn't working. Switching to linux-lts (kernel 5) did the job. I would highly encourage every Garuda user to install LTS at least in addition (if not as the main kernel), as there is not too much benefit on zen especially if you don't have cutting edge hardware. When I was using Suse or Kubuntu I hated KDE and was a long time Gnome user, but Garuda made me loving KDE again.
I use Garuda Qtile on my laptop cos their configuration of Qtile feels perfect for modern laptops IMO and i like that it comes with jgmenu so i only have to memorise a few of the basic keyboard shortcuts.
Yes, great review! Don't know how you manage to keep up with all of this having 5 kids to bring up as a single parent. Awesome job! There were a few glitches when installing the Gnome version to bare metal including updating problems. I therefore installed the vanilla Linux kernel via pacman which seemed to improve this for some reason. These sort of little bugs might be enough to deter newbies though. Anyway if you have some previous Linux experience, these are not really deal-breakers. The installed distro is awesome and gets a big recommendation from me despite the glitches.
I'd also recommend web apps or the Firefox containers to keep the supposedly necessary trackers quarantined. Basically for shopping carts or Netflix
The FireDragon browser is a fork of LibreWolf, which has those features enabled by default. Dynamic First Part Isolation is used, but specific containers can be opened by right-clicking on a link.
Im a recent Linux convert from windows, first used Mint for a couple weeks to get used to the difference, did some researching and settled on trying out Garuda and im pretty happy with it.
Garuda definitely fits the "Just Works Distro" tag and even if you arent a "Gamer" its still has some strong points.
I have an MSI GP65 laptop with RTX 2060 and a fresh install of Garuda KDE Lite. It has been running smooth for me as well. I previously had Manjaro KDE installed, used it for over a year with few issues here or there. Recently I got tired of Manjaro losing wifi (showing the wired connection icon with a red x) after I would log back in. Manjaro also would freeze when I would reboot to fix the wireless fail issue. So far I'm really enjoying Garuda. I will continue to use it on my gaming laptop.
For me, I love Ubuntu MATE. It just works flawlessly with my ASUS TUF GAMING F17 laptop. Love Linux. No more Windows and being forced to use M$ defaults and hoping they don't release a new OS that'll make my system obsolete....
LINUX RULES!
Your content RULES!
Keep up the great work.
Unused RAM is a sign of efficient quality coding build🤟
Ive gone back and forth between Garuda and Arco for the past two years, using a 500GB WD 5200RPM HDD. I love both distros but I was getting slight screen tearing on my browsers. I recently installed a Samsung 980 Pro M.2 SSD. Erik is awesome from Arclolinux, but getting Nvidia drivers installed is always a pain. On Garuda, no problem so thanks to this (and your many Vids), I'm making the move back to Garuda/KDE for DD
This is gonna be my os of choice for my next, new pc (with Win10 on separate ssd). Now Iam convinced there won't be anything better in any near future
Swapped from manjaro to garuda about a month ago after a manjaro update that broke a few programs i used and couldnt be happier
same here, but i will leave garuda, because Updates doesnßt show anymore. This is the second Arch based linux i used and for me this is a elemental function that must work in a rolling release linux
Why do you need to be reminded to update? Do what I do, every Sunday I update my system, I don't need the operating system to tell me I just do it.
@@eBuzzCentral hmm, because when a distro installs a feature to see them, it has to work and not to remind me that its broken
The feature isn't broken, I have Garuda running on my daily production machine and on my media center in my living room. Two different laptops, two different architectures, it reminds me every time. So even if it reminds me to update on a wednesday, I still update my system every Sunday.
@@hammerschaedel i dont think ive ever ran into that issue personally with any linux distro ive used and ive been hopping around linux for about 7 years now.
It’s the most power efficient distro as well. This is super important and often not remembered. Once I replaced the zen kernel for the traditional kernel and activated the power saving tweaks - all a few clicks away, all GUI based, no command line requirements - my laptop has become whisper quiet. Also, it is one of the few Linux distros that fully support Btrfs and snapshots, including GRUB integration. This is such a powerful feature, I can’t have a Linux distro without it anymore.
I thought the zen kernel was supposed to be the more power-efficient!
@@k.b.tidwell The Zen kernel is for high performance, therefore not power efficient.
Good video! I'd love to see you test out MX linux kde for a month.
My daily driver is pop!os, second best linux mint. Maybe them or fedora. They are probably the most stable out of all linux distros.
Always a pleasure to watch your videos. The reason microshaft sucks so bad is that I believe it's Always tracking, watching, reporting all the data it can about you. Why else would so much ram be utilized when at idle. I've been trying to convert and show people why they need to abandon closed source software including Crapple...
I've tried Garuda (dragonized version) before and it seems to stutter for me. The mini-pc I tried it on is a powerful one---minisforum HX90 with an AMD 5900HX APU. I ended up uninstalling it and going to Manjaro. Manjaro has its own problems too but after switching the audio to pipewire and kernel to the zen kernel, it's been running much better.
Now I'm on MX Linux which I like even more than Manjaro. I didn't even know it was #1 on distrowatch when I switched. It's running much better than any other Linux distros I've tried so far recently. My only hard part is at the beginning when I tried to install it using the BTRFS file system instead of the default ext4. I have to partition my SSD in a specific way for it to work. After figuring this out though, it's been running great! It has a lot of built-in tools for tweaking.
I'm using the KDE Plasma edition of MX Linux instead of Xfce. It's the only distro I've tried so far that runs so well that it doesn't even drop frames for me when watching RUclips videos online at 4K 60fps! It doesn't even slow down when I'm almost maxing my 32GB RAM having several browsers open with 100+ tabs each and other apps in the background. It also plays all my media files without missing a beat! I did quite a few tweaks to customize it to my liking. I changed the bash shell to zsh and added custom themes and plugins.
So far I've tried Ubuntu, Fedora 36, Manjaro, Zorin , Garuda, Endeavor, Pop! OS, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, etc . and MX Linux with KDE Plasma tops all of them so far for me in usability, customizability, and most of all... stability. 💪
Installing the dr4agonjzed edition again, got a new laptop and it would not work on my old one with 4 gigs of ram. It's a beautiful distro too.
I'm so RAM strapped that even Garuda is strained. For me, it's MX-Linux, Linux Lite and Peppermint OS.
One thing that makes Garuda excellent is how the developers really listened to, and communicated with, users.
I've been using Garuda for nine months. As a gamer and linux lover, it's the best ever!
Endeavours the future maaahhhn
Endeavour is basic. It’s just Arch with a few random thing’s installed. Nothing special. Garuda is actually special though as it has unique tools and update scripts and proper good stuff you don’t need to change after installation. Endeavour is just another easy arch install like manjaro and arco etc
@@Grimy-ks7vn manjaro is more than just an easy install of arch (for better or worse)
@@clankfish well it’s arch plus a desktop environment and software on top of it isn’t it? I know they have their own repositories which I think makes it even worse than stock arch but other than that isn’t it an easy arch install with an extra repository on top? It’s been a while since I used manjaro though so I don’t remember exactly how it ran other than it bricking my system so I reinstalled it once or twice
I love Garuda staying with it only distro that can handle my amd GPU, run qtile, run my dual monitor set up and has all apps I need
It's really beautiful and fun to use... however I run into issues I haven't had before on other distros... (intermittent locking, weird sound configuration stuff, long start up times, things failing to start) but they tend to have answers and workarounds. I may have to dual boot with another distro.
My suggestion would be try a base version that lets you use different desktops. (e.g. Debian, Slackware, etc)
Went from Mint to Fedora cinnamon. I really like Fedora stability wise but this looks awesome. Installing it here in about 1 minute.
And I ended up going back to Fedora.
@@AaronGravesthegravesmeister Could you share your particular reasons? I'm still on the fence about Garuda myself and interested in what those that have tried it have to say.
@@DarkVeghetta I don't know other than I guess it was just too flashy. Cool in some ways though. I just really like how clean, stable and simple fedora cinnamon is. If I ever got tired of Fedora, Garuda might be my second choice.
@@AaronGravesthegravesmeister Understood. Thank you for your time.
I'm trying to move away from Windows as my daily driver. Not move entirely away from it (for now), but I've been wanting to make Linux my go-to OS for various things: my daily work (ability to log into my work VDIs, Dot Net programming, etc) as well as just day-to-day fun things (watching RUclips videos, etc) but then the big one: gaming. Having read through what Proton provides, especially with the inroads the Steamdeck has done recently, I decided it was time to give Linux another shot as my daily driver. I used it mainly for programming in a VM under Windows, but I wanted to be able to harness the full power of my hardware using Linux directly and not through virtualization nor having to be in Windows to use it.
I went through many distros (Pop OS, Garuda and then I tried Nobara). Garuda is what I kept as I had another drive I was testing out other distros. But in the end, Garuda was the one I stuck with. It didn't work out of the box for some things mainly directed towards gaming (such as my XBox 360 controller until I installed the xboxrv driver), but overall, everything else worked beautifully.
Nobara, while it's aimed at gaming, was nice but things are very unstable and it just seems finicky and it took a lot of tinkering to make it work. Sort of reminds me of my early days with Linux in 1992 trying to get SLS up and running on my 80286 back then! It was fun, but these days, I'm needing something that works after installing.
Garuda is the one for me. I've been on it for weeks and other distros I've tested just don't seem to do it for me. Yes, I understand Garuda is based on Arch Linux and doesn't have the LTS concept such as Ubuntu, Pop OS and Mint. But Garuda just seems to feel better for me. Plus, I do like to live on the "bleeding edge" but not to the extend of what Nobara is. Garuda feels like it has that fine mixture of stability mixed with some bleeding edginess to it, and I like that.
I've been using Fedora 36 on this ASUS Vivobook for a while now and haven't had any issues - Other than installing codecs and third party repo's which is easy enough to do. And the first few updates are a ridiculously large and constant. Seems to have settled down now. Although Fedora doesn't work well with my Acer Nitro, so Garuda will go on there if Manjaro dies a horrible death at any stage - so far so good.
🙂Troy, you should keep Garuda Linux running on that laptop computer.
I recommend getting another laptop computer to test out other Linux distros.
Hello Troy. Vacation over, going through a 10 days backlog of "watch later" videos... Drat, 10 without a computer, I'm shaking and trembling...
I'm glad you had a good time my friend. I wasn't able to do much last week, had three different jobs going on at the same time, getting back on my schedule this week though. Hope you and your family are well.
You wanna try something ? Try the Nobara project
the only bugs ive ever had with Garuda is KDE being buggy, and well... you can't really avoid that. I've tried other DEs but kde is just the best for me. Sucks every once and a while it finds a way to break itself.
I agree, KDE is great but it's buggy, and that may become annoying.
Yeah, I just installed the dr460nized Gamer Edition and tried to change the global theme, but found it breaking stuff: some items stay in "dark theme" and then both the old and the new desktop layouts appearing on tip of each other after reboot.
Other than that, I think I might like Garuda. Hopefully the theme stuff can be fixed. :(
MABOX LINUX and MAKULU LINUX I am surprised at both. I am going to check out GAURDA too. I like Endeaver
A while ago I did a minimal install comparison between arch and tumbleweed with kde as the desktop, and on a fresh boot arch used 493 mb of ram, where tumbleweed used 459 mb of ram, arch also took 4.92 gb of disk space, where tumbleweed only took 3.18 gb of disk space.
Tumbleweed is a beast.
thanks forthe PROXY tweak for images.. and anything else like that you find. I learn- and KEEP NOTES on all that-- so when, or IF I use it-- I can make use of it.
That desktop environment looks amazing. Should I install it on my cousin's very old laptop? She doesn't know much about computers.
which desktop environment are u using, is it wayfire or kde dragonized?
Interesting review. I'm new to Linux and I'm trying it out as an ISO file on a thumb drive. Beautiful interface and it seems to work well.
How does it compare to: Fedora, Debian and Zorin?
Can you add a second or third workspace or desktop on a particular version - like KDE plasma with Gnome?
I have a problem with windows button that it's doesn't work with this distribution of linux
I disabled the global menubar, enabled light-mode and krita bright, then moved the main panel to the top. With those changes, garuda is my favorite distro
I guess I don't seem to be concerned about RAM usage at rest BUT I generally use distros like this on 8 GIG or more of RAM. I think even 4 GIG seems to be OK with 2,3 or even 4 sort, of RAM-hungry apps. Linux just plain beats the hell out of RAM usage. I'm using MX because it's not based on anything but Debian.
Suggestions for new Daily Driver: MaBox or ArchCraft
Nobora project please!
I eared of “AiryxOS” from an italian YT channel, can you talk about that? Thx, love your contents!
Spiral would be a great 90 day. Might be a bit too stable even with the added testing repo
2:22
My laptop is 2 Gbs and i search for a distro that has a less memory(RAM) consume
Antix,bodhi linux,puppy linux
I have been using Garuda with gnome for some time now. There appears to be some bugs with gnome but that may not be the distros fault. However I have tried other arch builds and other Linux distros and I always find myself coming back to Garuda because it just works and I can get the apps I need without worrying about whether they're in the repository or not because if they're not they're usually in the AUR.
I have a new 2 in 1 laptop coming Tues. I'm sold on Garuda now so it will be installed before the day is over.
Thoughts on ZorinOS?
It surprised me how nothing was breaking. Ive been distro hopping for the past month looking for "the one". Zorin didnt disappoint. I've been using it for about 2 weeks, mostly for development and browsing.
Yeap Zorin os and Linux Mint Cinnamon are both excellent stable distros
Fedora silverblue gnome 37 (have to wait a few more weeks) OR Ubuntu Mate 22.04.1, Linux Mint 21 cinnamon or MX-Linux 21.2 xfce or kde are the next linux 90 day test distros
If you prefer the KDE Plasma desktop, the latest Kubuntu is a good choice, unless you can't live with the ubuntu snap policy.
I use Manjaro as a day-by-day driver and you entice me to ty Garuda as a second system on my machine
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Thanks for the info!
Thanks. This was a very useful video. Just curious if you knew that provided the right graphics card in a powerful desktop, I would be able to run three 4k monitors @60HZ with Garuda Linux installed properly and not as a VM. 🙏
Fedora, MX Linux, or Gentoo
you should give modern day Gentoo a shot
I always say ram is not unused, it is available for my apps, if windows blocks 3gb of my 8gb ram, I only have 5gb for my apps, gnome only blocks about 800mb of ram, hence I have over 7gb of rams for my apps.
linux mint debian edition could be a distro u'd love to try
Awesome Troy, between Garuda and Fedora, which one is which for you?
For me, Garuda!!!
@@eBuzzCentral awesome Troy, im on Garuda Gnome, somehow i tried MS Edge on it, and it seems it wont open at all, even the ungoogled chrome, do you experience it as well?
I actually had to install pamac, because the one I tried to install from octopi would not load, so I uninstalled it, installed pamac and installed that version and it worked.
@@eBuzzCentral Cool, thanks Troy, I did installed it on Octopi, let me try that. Thanks!
I'd like to see you try Nobara. It's the "new kid on the block" and what few videos there are, the creator basically just installs it, says it's great and then it's gone.
I actually used Fedora prior to this, and I've covered Nabara in a review
I put garuda on a Lenovo N23 Chromebook that's run ROCK SOLID LMAO
Dark Background on light text please
thats what i wanted to hear i tried all the gaming linux distros even pop os holo iso and chimera, garuda is by far the best user experience its a proper os
I did a live install of Garuda Dragonized gaming edition on a 16gb usb thumb drive and I can't get the sound working on my laptop speaker, can you please help me. My laptop is a Panasonic toughbook CF-19ZA813DM with 16gb of ram and a 1tb Samsung 850 pro sata ssd. Also do you know of any good offline GPS software and how I can play Oblivion and Skyrim offline
Completely agreed.
Edit: about the new os, Fedora 37 is on its way, but still in beta.
What about NIXOS?
I use Garuda for my gaming and daily driver, but i use Opensuse leap for every thing else cause it just works and never breaks for me, give it a shot.
Zorin OS 16 is my daily driver, try it.
what do you think about LMDE?
my problem is ,"bluetooth adapter is not available", when i used garuda Dragonized...
1:55 Joke's on you, when I boot windows it's already chewing through a hefty chunk of 10+ gigs.
for me, 6-8 gigabytes like wtf
Just installed it. I did not modify anything, only getting use to the basic interface for now. I rebooted the pc and now i'm stuck in 640x480, when prior, the resolution was 1920x1080. Kind of suck. Can see my screen or open anything because it to big.
GaaaaRoooooDaaaaaa
hey E-buzz I have a problem with garuda locking up . What could be wrong ??????????????
Try arco Linux 😊
This OS is so cool and one of the ones I have been trying out a bit as I continue my journey away from Windows and towards Linux. I just have a question that might be kind of silly so I apologize. >.> Ive been trying the super fancy "KDE Dr460nized" version and I love how it looks and stuff, and it seems to fix some issues I had with earlier distros (reading/using multiple drives, etc). But Im having trouble getting used to the GUI and stuff, it is just so different from what I'm used to, like how it moves the min/max/close buttons onto the dock/bar, etc. Im wondering if I use the Cinnamon version, would it be the same features under the hood, or would I be giving up some of Garuda's main features/etc?
Regata looks really good too. but I haven't tried it.
Nobara also.. Those two and garuda are all in the same class IMO.. They are all gaming oriented and offer a lot of preinstalled stuff; super easy for a noob
what's about battery usage? for people those tried it, are there any different?
Been using Garuda Cinnamon for over a year. I have downloaded the newest versions of Cinnamon, Dr460nized and XFCE 231029 to install on new HDD. When I installed Garuda before I had no problems, considering I am a Newbie. I Installed OS, updated OS, then Garuda Assistant to install all packages on OS.
When I install any of the (3) 231029 OS’s it installs okay but will not UPDATE, always error (can not resolve dependencies) then going to the Garuda Assistant is out of the question.
Any help is appreciated. Is Fastboot & Secure Boot turned on or off in this procedure. I thought I’d done with & without but no change, no UPDATE completed.
How did you install final cut on garuda ! Plz answer me
Fedora would be good to see or a Ubuntu base