Garuda Linux GNOME Edition - Featureful Next-Gen Linux Distro for 2021

[@bugaboojones9360]

Been using this OS for the past few months, haven't looked back

[@misty-skies]

Same!

[@glidersuzuki5572]

Which DE?

[@bugaboojones9360]

@@misty-skies Gnome

[@rgmtb]

Do you find that many apps are not compatible? I've messed with this and it's beautiful but I'm still trying to figure out if my apps are compatible. I'm new to Linux so maybe I'm just not understanding how this Linux stuff works hahaha!

[@zardian]

@@rgmtb every package works with every distribution, you just need to short out it's dependencies.

[@papiyabasu1564]

After using Garuda dragonized kde for 2 days , I deleted my windows partition. Still using it, and haven't felt the need for anything else. It's tasty , it's healthy , it's good.

[@uniquebrands6056]

Me too

[@ZuriPOL]

Do you think it's faster in games and cpu intensive tasks than windows?

[@confuseddeku3478]

@@ZuriPOL Yes. No questions asked just yes.

[@anubs1786]

some cracked games won't work tho, today I'll make a list of what games does and don't run on this new distro for gaming, maybe i will conclude that the game doesn't support the linux system or it's just the emulation or idk

[@Error_404-F.cks_Not_Found]

@WolframaticAlpha like he said its either love it or hate it lol. i think its beautiful. Currently downloading. But i can see how some would despise it. lol

[@Tout-Le-Monde02]

it's buggy, overbloated and the community is extremely arrogant ... ad ppl going gaga over their look and feel are those noobs who does not know that the UI can be replicated with sweet icons and themes without any issues .....

[@vaibhavppandey]

agreed with last sentence

[@MichaelMantion]

Well when you are the best distro you can be arrogant. Buggy,,,, lie... over bloated... mhe, it has good stuff, Id rather have a bunch of good stuff I may not need then a bunch of crap that I don't even know is crap. My favorite part of Garuda is they understand unused ram is a waste. A lot of linux users mistakenly think that low ram usage is a good thing. it is a false notion that needs to be corrected. I don't like the looks of garuda but the themes are easy to change. I agree i don't understand why people think transparent windows and unique icons are good. I did end up with a similar icon pack with just white and plan black themes. The crap look of garuda is definitly the worst part, but again, it just shows people radically different options and forces them to find good themes.

[@AkshatPandey]

looks like someone had a hard time fixing bugs

[@Tout-Le-Monde02]

@@MichaelMantion best distro? in distrowatch's last 12 month's list they are not even in the top 20.....

[@ThatBrubakerFellow]

Sweet KDE with beautyline. Also includes zen kernel. They screwed work grub though. You have to use Garuda boot to configure it.

[@gaborlant5343]

Someone tell me why everyone in the linux community feel like they should create a whole new distro when they discover an icon pack and a shell theme. Why dont we have just baseline 7-8 linux distros with very distinct feature sets and let people customise how they want. I feel like this is just commiting to more fragmenting and I could just download manjaro and theme it like this taking me 10 minutes.... This whole garude should be just a github gist with the steps to custumise from manjaro gnome....

[@arkethel]

Manjaro is also just a messy arch install

[@SpaceTimeBeing_]

This isn't fragmented like Android OS's, most popular linux distro's share the same main distro, so you aren't missing on updates and features. Linux distros are just choices.

[@classicallemur1190]

It actually has many under the hood changes such as the inclusion of z-ram, fish shell, and a performance designed kernel.

[@orpheustakenvanced]

We do have a baseline, everything is based on debian, arch or fedora.

[@gaborlant5343]

I don't mind having a new distro for a different look if it is a whole package. But I think it should be done only if it has so much to package together that it creates a whole new direction and community (e.g. emelentary os), otherwise it is just a "skin" on ubuntu or arch or something.

[@achyuthsai7171]

Every distro has its own cons and the same goes with garuda. They just started to make it user-friendly, if we give them some more time they are definitely gonna be one of the best distros out there.

[@keyvanalizadeh2995]

I tried their cinnamon version and was thinking it was great till I tried to install an app; it was trying to uninstall some stuff that other apps depended on for some reason and they were different for every different app that I tried to install. I tried finding a solution for the problem but their community is not that great... So yeah, back to Manjaro.

[@MichaelMantion]

Garuda forums are the best. Not sure why you think their community is not great.. Its good to tinker and learn thing, breaking your system forces you to either learn how it works or learn how easy time shift is. Why didn't u just time shift back before you broke it and try the system as it is. I mean I hate KDE destops, but only after I used it for a month. I do think I could configure and like KDE, but I was trying so many distros i didn't want to bother tweaking KDE every time I install. I also use cinnamon because its close to what I like right out of the box. Gardua has a lot of stuff going on, you really shouldn't be uninstalling things unless you are an expert. That is why its so good for new users because they don't have to struggle to install complex stuff like Zen kernels.

[@keyvanalizadeh2995]

@@MichaelMantion The reason I said so was bcz I couldn't really find anything related to the issues I had except some guy saying that he'll be back when the problems are fixed. The thing is it wasn't me who messed things up, it was the setup that asked which apps I wanted and installed them automatically.

[@tigrankhachaturian8983]

@@keyvanalizadeh2995 that is called rtfm

[@keyvanalizadeh2995]

@@tigrankhachaturian8983 You mean the tool that you can use to automatically install a set of apps? I've been away from it for quite some while.

[@tigrankhachaturian8983]

@@keyvanalizadeh2995 read the fine manual, referred to when a noobie goes right to the forums without reading documentation and understanding the concept first

[@anantgupta7916]

I am running Arco Linux with Awesome WM (My own config) I can switch anytime if I want to any other arch based system as I have all my configs back up at github But I have not point to distrohopp

[@ObiWanAugus]

Yesterday I installed the Dragonized version; and I had several problems with the repositories and some keys. Pamac couldn't find software available. Now I downloaded the latest version (the previous one was a month old); and I will test from zero again.

[@ernon69]

From my perspective, it's buggy and there is a lot of issues within it, I hope that something have changed. I'll check it , I always feel like POP_OS is just the most reliable option.

[@najninlaboni4483]

yes buggy to me in my 4gb machine

[@playcat22211]

If you're a mature user u know Ubuntu is the most stable the official one

[@ShaunakHub]

I personally think it is unfair to compare any rolling release distro with any distro like Pop_OS or Ubuntu LTS or something similar. It is like comparing apples with oranges.

[@VrishabhDB]

Yeah, for me the tap-to-click refuse to work on my laptop.

[@meowcula]

Yeah I couldn't get it working well enough to use as my daily driver either. I'll keep trying though.

[@AlainBaudrez]

AFAIK it is prononced Garud' and not Garuda. The name Garuda means King Of Birds and is of Indian origin, hence the different prononciation

[@dr.mikeybee]

I like that they use a better shell out of the box. Why don't all the distros? I like oh-my-zsh and powerlevel10k.

[@itsgalaxy2407]

pls no

[@Lukes-Tech]

Great review!

[@Mantikal]

Aesthetically speaking, they need to redo that eagle head logo. It does not go with the style of the OS. The OS looks futuristic while the logo design looks like something from the early days of CGI - primitive infancy tech. Mad respect to the creator of the logo. Maybe it fit in long ago but it doesn't anymore.

[@Destide]

Felt pretty rough when I tried it lots of scripts that kind of worked or are pretty pointless. I like a lot of the defaults, not a fan of the theming it'll age like milk, but it is easy to sort. It just needs a couple of years of polish

[@justjoshing75]

are you running manjaro kde on your production machine?

[@amitbiswas2002]

Yes, He's using Manjaro for Long Days

[@amitbiswas2002]

Based on GNome 40??

[@TechHut]

The ISO doesn't (currently) ship with GNOME 40, but after the first update its there.

[@amitbiswas2002]

@@TechHut oh, i see! Thank you so much 😊

[@TechHut]

@Jurre Pepijn Tas they use custom repos. archlinux.pkgs.org/rolling/chaotic-aur-x86_64/gnome-desktop-git-1:40.alpha+2+g6b2a904a-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.html

[@fredrik2008]

Sadly there is no gnome Dr460nized version anymore, its very plain and barebones.

[@meowcula]

I think the Garuda look and feature set is awesome. Only problems are I can't seem to get timeshift to work, and installing the proprietary nvidia drivers never seems to work. I did hours of fiddling on both fronts and ended up going back to my daily driver (mint). I'll try it again, but I wish I could just get those two things working, those are the biggest hurdles.

[@AbdulRafay-vi6hz]

I am running Pop Os and It work awesome and I want to switch to arch Linux but I have to a lot of work to get to arch Linux so first master the debain System then try something new.

[@totallynotbluu]

Arch isnt that hard to install IMO, after partitioning your disk its ez from there

[@danzare5638]

have you more than 1 pc ? it is needed to have more than 1 if you want to be tech repair , gotta be able to search and download

[@AbdulRafay-vi6hz]

@@totallynotbluu yeah I know but I have only one main computer so I don't want to destroy my computer yet because If I switch to arch then My work will be effected so in vocations I will try arch linux.

[@anantgupta7916]

13:23 Actually it was not gparted, It was gnome-disks

[@kindnessasgreatasthesea1158]

I'd give everything for all those user-friendly/assistant apps that help with system maintainance, without all the heavy theming.

[@supernova874]

Yeap i have also dual boot with windows 10 but everything on it i run through Lutris or wine and only login to windows once a month or so.. Anyway Garuda Kde Dr460nized Ultimate is my "flavor" and is pretty awesome , has everfything i needed preinstalled or easy to install through the original setup wizard on my first login , to setup my second pc with Manjaro with the same apps i needed extra 4 hours of work and the Garuda is closer to the Original Arch so the updates are more frequent and the same as in vanilla Arch distro. (that i use on a third pc). Not fun of Gnome but look great also .

[@josecamilojimenez2784]

Unpopular opinion: I hate it with burning passion, yes it looks "cool" for some people (not for me), but the amount of bloat and unnecesary software that it has by default is just to much.

[@zardian]

They also have barebones version for advance users... If you consider yourself advance, may check it out.

[@josecamilojimenez2784]

@@zardian i don't get the point in that, if i want an "advanced" version i will just install Arch/Artix or in my case Gentoo.

[@pasamnagalaxmi9299]

Its for gamers only not fot everyone

[@MichaelMantion]

Been using garuda for about 8 months now on 3 laptops. Cinnamon desktop for me TYVM. I have gotten 2 people to switch to garuda. I tried literally dozens of distros before I found and started using garuda. Garuda is easily the best and no other distros I have tried since has changed my opinion.

[@sajithks6083]

Made in india 😍😍😍

[@amitbiswas2002]

Made in India has 18 more Distros that you've never heard about It.

[@yasagarwal859]

Nice video I like gnome more than kde. Also in the word garuda A at the end is reduced to the e sound found in the english word 'the'.

[@LucianC137]

I really like its dark theme.

[@kritagyagupta8619]

The only tech moment when I am proud to be indian

[@pointerish]

Man, you should be proud. You indians make very useful tutorials. Also, you have nukes. Hopefully you'll never use them, but still.

[@ushirogeri8085]

These rainbow and candy colors are good for teenage girls. It is difficult to take such design seriously.

[@MichaelMantion]

Agreed.. I never understood why people think garuda looks good. Stupid icons and transparent windows are crap. That said its a good thing because it forces you to install different themes to make you actually learn how to use themes and find a optimal look for you.

[@ushirogeri8085]

@@MichaelMantion Maybe because Manjaro is so ugly ;) In my opinion the best distro design out of the box is Pop OS

[@amitbiswas2002]

It's Called Neo Gradient 🙂

[@M_Weber]

I've played with several versions & I love the Base-KDE version. It was great... Though me and my minimal OCD couldn't handle it, so I went back to my stripped down Manjaro build, with a nice smokey glass theme.

[@classicallemur1190]

Yeah Garuda is one of those distros you either love or you hate

[@techrazor3280]

I didn't like the 'icon' either,,,, agreed !

[@sharishth]

I am seeing gnome getting attention since fedora 34 beta release. Its good as now community's interest will help it make it more awesome like xfce.

[@drishalballaney6590]

10:41 DT ROASTED :DD

[@thelaundryroomofstatenisla6271]

I tried Garuda linux, but it's really slow compare to Manjaro, Fedora or Linux Mint, really slow on the same hardware

[@wah1dx]

After gnome40 update this review would be more interesting

[@TechHut]

This was Gnome 40. I even go into that later in the video.

[@theena]

I run the KDE multimedia version on my Thinkpad T420 for around 3 months now. Some issues here and there with overheating but else, it's awesome. I love that their KDE is pre-configured and I like the ideas incorporated into those preconfigurations. Those control panels for Network, Gaming, etc is a great touch too.

[@zardian]

Replace performance-tweaks with tlp in Garuda assistant.

[@Crisp_AU]

I'll stick to Manjaro - The Garuda icons/theme is horrible.

[@lordbruno]

them garuda guys just forced me to into assimilation, i feel very much abused

[@Prakhar_Choubey]

What are you talking about? I guess I am confused here and need little bit more explanation

[@poornarao1104]

im using kde dragonised, its just epic how good my old crappy laptop can look, just that my ram kinda gets overused and get rare freezes

[@stylixakki]

can it work on my hp pavilion 15 p018tu with 4gb ram /1tb hdd and intel 4th gen core i 3 processor??? please reply?

[@raffaelesilletti156]

Beautiful but hard to read and making your eyes very tired

[@esaleirivaara7315]

I don’t think it’s Gnome 40 yet, even though it says it in the settings. Just yesterday installed Arch with Gnome and noticed the same.

[@josecamilojimenez2784]

it's Gnome 40 but the gnome-session is the version 3.38.x, for that reason the system doesn't look like the new version, you can check it in your system typing gnome-session --version in the terminal.

[@esaleirivaara7315]

@@josecamilojimenez2784 Thanks, Jose. So it is Gnome 40, but it isn't Gnome 40. :)

[@Razuatic]

help it wont download it says operation system invalid

[@sawoodsheikh141]

Why am i not seeing animations in the windows ? Mine has one so...

[@xs732]

it looks horrible. manjaro does it better

[@xjpsmithx]

Went KDE Garuda Dragonized on my primary desktop and laptop about 6 months ago. Love it. Never looking back.

[@SpaceTimeBeing_]

Hey man, is btrfs bad for HDD? I just want those backups to appear on grub, unsure whether I should switch to btrfs or not.

[@supernova874]

Nope its great to use btrfs , with Timeshift + Timeshift-Autosnap + grub-btrfs you are ready to go :) Also you can experiment as much as you want the timeshift has your back covered XD

[@josecamilojimenez2784]

It depends, in one hand if you have an SSD it's pretty bad because everytime that you write something in the SSD the btrfs filesystem writes a backup of your information and you will end up shorting your SSD life and in the other hand is pretty good if you need to create a server or some type of NAS. In the case of SSDs the best option is to use f2fs cuz is faster and it preserves the life of your drive

[@supernova874]

@@josecamilojimenez2784 The btrfs way of timeshift its more safe for ssd and more conservative to its writes thanks to its compression and the way backup occurs , the time difference with btrfs backup vs rsync is times faster in btrfs and NOT because it write faster (same test in SSD) its the way the backup happens and the technology behind it also the ssd life of modern ssd's will out much and hdd in years thanks its technology ,yes in the first and second generations of ssd that would be possible to happen but now (if it itsn't any crappy manufacturer) will not happen.

[@provakar5496]

I am very disappointed in Garuda Gnome. After installing I updated the system. I have never set any fingerprint but now it keeps auto scanning for fingerprint and I cannot login. Took 'bout 3 hrs from installing to updating and cannot login. Just image the pain!

[@ShaunakHub]

I found it too colourful for my taste. Heck I don't even install custom themes 🥶 (whether I am using Manjaro or Fedora or OpenSUSE). Also, I personally believe nothing should come preinstalled from Git or AUR by default on a distribution (for obvious reasons) as well as proprietary software. I have always found custom themes mess up one app or the other. I have seen a lot of arguments for and against BTRFS and quite a few seem to say that it does not have any real benefit for desktop users. Would love it if you could do a video on this (comparing pros and cons of BTRFS vs ext4 for a normal desktop user).

[@SoulRollerFIN]

I'm on KDE. It's just more versatile than the GNOME. I have used previous versions of GNOME though and they worked really well on a living room PC.

[@Mayankkumar-eh8yb]

I had also tried out Garuda linux , it's definitely highly polished and definitely better than many arch based distros but we can't deny that it's bloated and btfrs partition scheme was something which had both pros and cons ....I would have preferred for the same purpose maybe Arco linux or Salient os which are more beginner friendly and less bloated..,😊

[@boxicool]

Manjaro is the most stable arch based distro i have ever been using. Every thing smooth, even playing games is so good. BEST DISTRO.

[@PsycosisIncarnated]

@@boxicool >manjaro >stable yeah ok buddy xD

[@taztas117]

Hmm what about driver for tp link wn722n v3 got problem witch arch to work proper + enable monitor mode.

[@David_Granger]

I found out about Garuda because a tech website in my country sad it would be the most beautiful distro and far more beautiful than Deepin, I didn't agree and it is good to see I'm not alone.

[@methamphetamememcmeth3422]

I hate it. I hate how it looks.

[@dr.mikeybee]

It's also a pain to setup mini-conda, direnv, and github when I build a new system. Doesn't everyone set these up?

[@warpspace7871]

Why white titlebar in windows? I prefer all black

[@BipinRamachandran]

Dash to dock started supporting Gnome 40🤔

[@jadhal9280]

Sir how to change Close max min button to right side

[@aniksen3831]

Third-Class 😒

[@tombpit]

People, is there Microsoft Office available for linux? I ask because I'm a Windows user, tired of fixing HD 100% every week.

[@aaronvond]

Aside from compatible clones of MS Office (like LibreOffice), you can use the online Office 360 apps on Linux and I think MS is bringing native Office to Linux soon.

[@uniquebrands6056]

I deleted my windows 10 for Garuda KDE dragonized and I have never regret it

[@rodrigoroaduterte9415]

The last Windows version is 7. Everything that came after is nothing more, but gay propaganda.

[@marleybutler4633]

I like cinnamon

[@MichaelMantion]

me too..

[@AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you. Not to my tastes though.

[@unLinuxeroMas]

This distro is so buggy i do not recomend any arch based distro all of these are just unesesary bloat . The only good bases arch distro os manjaro

[@aloneer0529]

Better EndeavourOS

[@wah1dx]

Reborn is very close to arch

[@wayneferguson14]

I will just stay with normal arch

[@danzare5638]

WRONG , I use it without any issue , both Dragonized garuda and manjaro

[@arkethel]

Regular Arch is fine, I do not see the point of manjaro

[@ginairwin8831]

👍👍👍

[@amitbiswas2002]

In Your Virtual Machine Garuda Linux Running Smoothly 😯😯

[@TechHut]

Gave it 6 decided cores and 8gb of ram. :)

[@amitbiswas2002]

@@TechHut Oh! I See! BTW, It's not easy to Understand This Linux is running on Virtual Machine or, Real Machine 😅

[@zeusdelta2842]

Hey which linux distro you recommend me for learning linux and also how to permanently switch from windows to linux

[@dokidoki5850]

Go for pop os. It is ubuntu but better in some ways. I recommend it coz it was created based on ubuntu meaning that it operate similarly like how ubuntu did with some minor tweaks. And ubuntu is ez (not really but kind of) for who started as they have really big community for you to get some help. Search linux help blablabla and mostly u will find guides which based on ubuntu.

[@dokidoki5850]

I personally prefer manjaro which based on arch but lately ive return to pop os so that i can learn how to setup localhost on linux for coding. So yeah, im a noob. Btw welcome to linux. Im new too and only been using it for only a year but ao far the experiences were great

[@zeusdelta2842]

@@dokidoki5850 can i contact you like on telegram and insta i have so many doubts

[@ari_archer]

I hate the guruda's bloat

[@CesarPeron]

Try Garuda Barebones

[@ari_archer]

@@CesarPeron Garuda is pure garbagy mess and I will never every touch that outdated, messy, bloated absolutely terrible distro

[@Hippieinthewoods]

I use Solus, is this the same as far as easy to use?

[@kermitdaphrogge525]

No

[@anasmohamed9006]

I'm using in my hp-envy there is heating issue....😔

[@zardian]

Because Garuda Dragonized is meant for pc. You need to replace performance_tweaks_git package with tlp for laptop thermals and battery issues.

[@anasmohamed9006]

Now it's better... Thank you 💪...

[@zardian]

@@anasmohamed9006 welcome, now please spread your words about how great Garuda is...😁

[@_nom_]

I'd really love to be able to run a screen over 60hz on Gnome, when you have to screens. But the Gnome devs made it a feature.

[@adamvujasanin928]

I run my old Dell on75hz

[@RKStrider]

I've been on gnome for 2 years and both of my monitors have always been running at 75hz (1080p & 1440p). I hope you've sorted it out!

[@s_aku]

Tried using the KDE Version but I couldn't install nvidia drivers beacuse im pretty sure the linux zen kernel doesn't support either my drivers or gpu

[@zardian]

Just change the kernel....🤷🏻

[@s_aku]

@@zardian dunno how lol

[@zardian]

@@s_aku install new kernel, change grub config.

[@spearsie]

if you want to use the zen kernel then sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms

[@himanshere7537]

Nice profile pic

[@parampreetrai7093]

👌👌

[@halogrim1881]

how to update pop os to gnome 40?

[@dokidoki5850]

W8 for 21.10 and hope that itll be there coz from what i heard, ubuntu 21.04 wont ship with it and pop os will most likely to follow ubuntu

[@halogrim1881]

@@dokidoki5850 thnx

[@pasamnagalaxmi9299]

Pop os is gonna make their own de based on rust soon

[@halogrim1881]

@@pasamnagalaxmi9299 oh nice

[@bittokazi249]

Seems like a pet project in production.

[@ThatBrubakerFellow]

This is my conclusion. Walked away from it knowing what I didn't want.

[@AliRadhi]

I'm manjaro user and I tried this distro before, and I can confirm that is not polished yet and I had many bugs, on the other hand manjaro working perfect on my machine. Many Thanks for your great videos.