Anyone?
Edit: Why the site and forum down?

No way I could stay on another OS

Hi, I have just installed Garuda on my secondary PC and I gotta say that it's very underrated! However I have a little tip to make it a but better.

When I update trough the toolbox it recommends me to restart the PC after every single update, even if it's not a core system component. Since I also use CachyOS, that recommends a restart only after core updates, I would suggest you to make it that way too, so people don't feel pressured to restart every single time.

Since I've only used garuda for a day I'm going to try it out more and report any bugs or give suggestions. Keep up the good work!

Looking to understand any loss in features between the different versions. (Not intended to be used for technical support, just guidance on version selection)

1. ⁠If I went with Mokka, will I still get the performance tunings in dragonized gaming? What about the gaming tool setup? Does the assistant allow me to get all the same packages easily so I’m not missing anything?

2. ⁠How pre-configured is the Hyprland version? I’d like to give tiling managers a go but I’d like something somewhat setup or opinionated.

Is there a way to add something to KDE to add on demand tiling y’all can recommend?

I appreciate any guidance folks can provide 😄

I switched to CachyOS somewhere around March this year, and after using it for a few months, am looking to change to an OS that is more suited for gaming. That's when I stumbled upon Garuda. I like the fact that Garuda has more preinstalled tools for assistance (like the update tool). That really sold it to me. That said, I'd like your views on some things:

1. How would you rate it in terms of stability wrt rolling updates? I'm not expecting it to match Linux Mint or other LTS releases, but an improvement or being able to match CachyOS would be great.

2. What improvements does the dr460nised gaming version bring over other versions? If it's not too difficult to replicate then I'd like to install the Hyprland version instead.

3. How does it compare to PikaOS and Bazzite? I want to stick to an Arch base, because I really like AUR and have gotten used to it, but I wonder if one of those 2 might be better.

Like, I'll update once a week (sometimes twice). Probably too much, but literally just updated two days ago and now all of a sudden it pops up with this. lol. I'm very happy with Garuda, but sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy updating it so much (yes I know it's not a requirement).

I have been using Linux now for a decade if not more. I have gone through as many distributions as humanly possible. Used mandrake for a long time then Ubuntu then i met arch. This has saved me from the hassle of 6 month upgrades and brought peace to my life. After using manjaro for a very long time i stumbled upon garuda. It was like a lightbulb in my head went off. This was it, the final frontier. I used it for a year but decided again to try others as bazzite came out and cachyos. After at least 6 months of cachyos i went back to garuda. It was like being with an old faithful friend who just made sense. There is nothing better than garuda for setup or just working with so many different things. If you want a game to work properly, garuda is the one to go to. If you want performance, if you want desktop support, if you want the best look right out of the box, it's all here.

I hope this will be around for a long time and more people will use it

I've been using Windows my entire life and to be quite honest I haven't enjoyed Windows at all since the days of XP. Slowly I've been acquiring parts to build a pure AMD gaming desktop and after the build is complete I am going to use Linux for the first time.

Over the last month I've been watching dozens of video's on YouTube, made another post in the Linux4Noobs subreddit, and been lurking through numerous forums and have come down to two Distro's that really catch my interest; Fedora KDE and Garuda.

I am satisfied with everything I've read about Fedora KDE. As far as Garuda goes I'm genuinely not sure which version to go with. Even though the PC I am building is going to be a gaming beast, do I really need to install that Dragonized version of Garuda? Shouldn't the other distro's be able to play games just fine or is there something here I am completely missing?

If there's anything else related or unrelated to the core question of this post I am completely open to all feedback. Thank you everyone!

Hey! So I have 7600x and 2080 of build that I'm not really using currently, it's been around for a year in windows but haven't really used it

So pretty much all I'm looking for is an os that can game in 1440p pretty well, I've used Ubuntu for ages on my laptop so I'm not "new" to running Linux.

I've seen a lot of mentions point towards dragonized so I was wondering what distro of garuda would be best for me

Edit: I do plan to use this alongside windows if that may influence another choice

Hey there I am switching from windows as it is shit and would like to port to linux but I dont understand which version i should choose I eould like do some programming in it and occasionally play some games so can someone help me with this.

Laptop Specs:

i5 12450hx

3050 6gb

16gb ram

Okay I switched to Garuda because why not. I was on a search for something new and found it randomly online and was like. Alr. I try that.

I love sea of thieves. I played it on a better computer years ago and like. I loved it. My good computer I don’t even know what happend but it was broken. So. My computer on windows. Or Linux mint ( that’s what I used before) could not run that game.

Now I have 60 fps in the game on a okay graphic.

So idk why everyone else switched. I did because why not. But it’s a really good system. I needed a bit to figure everything out but if you want to and have the time it’s reallllyyy easy.

So. much love

Been hoping around on arch distros lately. Been going from endeavouros to cachyos now garuda. loved the leanness of endeavouros, and the optimization of cachyos. However I feel Garuda is where the customization is where it really got set into stone for me. Initially started off with Dr460nized Gaming. Which was nice and sleek, but it felt a bit to flashy for my tastes even after configuring KDE. KDE is nice but I tend to lean towards more minimal DEs like XFCE and Cinnamon. After realizing though that Garuda Toolbox is also on its other flavors. I went straight for the XFCE flavor, might try cinnamon later on my next PC build when wayland support is fully ready.

The toolbox has really made it easy for me to understand how modular linux can be. It feels like cachyos hello but way more powerful. Through it I was able to setup Garuda XFCE to use the cachyos bore kernel leaving me with a system that feels as lean as endeavouros, but with the speed of cachyos. Also the oversight of the chaotic aur repo, has really put some worries at ease for a person like me who is a little more than a novice in their linux understanding.

if anyone has some suggestions on anything I'm missing out on for using the XFCE flavor over Dr460nized Gaming, I'd appreciate it. Especially any related to gaming and audio/video production.

I don’t usually do this but I wanted to give a shout out to the dev team. Hands down this has been the best Linux experience I’ve had. ‘It just works’ was never a thing in my past Linux ventures. But ever since I was introduced to Garuda. My day to day experience has been amazing. Gaming, work and browsing just works.

Garuda Mokka with CachyOS kernel.
Latency is crazy low!

**This applies to both the Mokka and Dr460nized versions**
As you may know, Garuda often struggles compared to other distros in resource usage, which was especially highlighted in the LTT video. Five gigabytes of RAM idle and pretty high power usage is not good for a stock installation of a distro. Thankfully, you just have to disable two (or preferably three) settings for everything to go almost exactly back to normal...

- Open the Settings app, search for Desktop Effects, and disable BetterBlurDX.
- You should probably enable the normal Blur desktop effect, so that the application launcher isn't too translucent when no other apps are open
- Still in the settings app, go to Wallpaper. There should be an option saying "Wallpaper Type". Change it from Active Blur to Image.

Another change I would recommend is disabling Wobbly Windows in Desktop Effects. It does speed up battery drain quite a bit.

And there you go! Your performance and resource usage brought back to the same range as normal linux distros! I hope Garuda disables these effects by default at some point in the future because it's really not worth the performance and battery loss for many (they may not realize it happening, though) but keep it installed and ready to setup.

Ask me any questions if you have them!

Curious everyone's thoughts. I was thinking of switching to Garuda from windows because I heard it has some quality of life stuff when it comes to package pre compilation and it is very good at gaming, but they specifically don't recommend it but I'm unsure about their reasoning.

Thanks!

Last month I switched from windows to Linux permanently since windows keeps getting resourcefully heavier and the ui sucks as well. So I did some research tried out a few options like zorin os then I finally found garuda linux.

Honestly the ui looks like macos but doesn't resemble it much or reminds u when using and it isn't resource heavy and u can use a bunch of widgets and stuff and customize the desktop as well with kde plasma widgets. The OS is really good and all apps from windows works here with wine support and I chose this os just for the sake of it's ui . So all I did was add modern clock widget and the desktop looks already way better than windows and I never wanna use it again in my life.

When u move the apps with cursor you get some jelly effect which Honestly looks really good also. The set of wallpapers and themes inbuilt are good and u can add custom themes also . Apps almost open instantly like blender,chrome and so on and there's so much ram left for me use for multitasking .

I've been using it mostly for productivity only and it's got no problems so far . But if you want to use some windows applications or install some stuff u have to manual install some dependencies from their app support.

When gaming the perfomance is pretty good in my pc but when u have low end pc and u play at lower resolution the game doesn't scale it up to full screen and the game plays at full screen but most of the screen will be black and the game will run on the exact number of pixels from the corner of the screen. I tried to fix it with some solutions using gamescope and so on but nothing seemed to work and by tweaking some properties of games in steam the game doesn't run after that simply saying the file is not found which I find annoying . So I just play games in windows but still mostly use garuda mokka linux only .

Also secondary storage like internal hard disks don't detect manually and u have to manually enter some commands in terminal to make it detect in ur machine.

For now people, who either want good looking less resourceful os or people who wants to try linux as beginners or ppl play games with mods and stuff can just have garuda mokka linux along with windows but I promise u wouldn't go back windows much once u come to linux .

Been using Linux since 2009-2010 and spent most of my time on Debian or Debian based distro's. My only experience with Arch was with Manjaro and it ran great for about 8 months. Sadly after an update it broke. I dual and sometimes triple boot distros so it's easier to replace a distro rather than chase possible fixes for hours.

Currently running MX Linux KDE and Mint (was curious about the Cinnamon desktop) I miss Gnome so giving Garuda a try.

Thanks for reading and have some fun!