Garuda Linux: My Thoughts

[@sgs6753]

Thank you for your professional report on Garuda. My subscription to your channel is guaranteed :-) . Stay healthy and have fun with FOSS.

[@eflinux]

Thanks! Keep up the good work, I’m looking forward to the next release!

[@SpaceTimeBeing_]

Hi is the zen kernel good for programming? Would the performance be better than that with the generic kernel

[@DavidHaras]

I have tried most of the Garuda Linux versions and have to say all are well polished and fast for me on my machine. Back on an Arch install now because that is the way I prefer things.

[@cstephan7]

Your videos are delightfully educational. I appreciate your presentation style. Your voice is smooth, and you maintain good cheer. Thank you for the work that you do. Please keep doing it. This channel should have 100K subscribers already! You will be there.

[@eflinux]

Glad you like them!

[@deliriumcode]

@@eflinux count one more here. 😉

[@gerds.9956]

Oh nice! I think i will test this Distro on a VM. Thank you Ermanno for this good Video

[@devnandi1164]

Hey Ermanno, just saw this video. What are your thoughts on BTRFS ? I know it is good and has various features like extensive checksums , scrubbing and ofcourse snapshots among many others. But benchmarks shows file transferring rate of EXT4 is way ahead of BTRFS. For fast file transfers ext4 maybe a better choice but for backups BTRFS can be good but doesnt always guarantee the data. What would you prefer as the default FS on any linux distro?

[@eflinux]

So for me it really depends on which machine and for what purpose. On my main machine I like to have a mature filesystem like ext4 or xfs, as my main focus there is stability. I thinks btrfs will be the fs of the future but it has some things it still needs to be worked on. It has a great set of features and I am sure more discos will switch to it in the future

[@devnandi1164]

@@eflinux totally agree.

[@amarmisra9582]

Excellent...will definitely try..so many tools like MX Linux..But it is Arch based..So will definitely love..

[@yakugoesgaruda5977]

I left Windows for Garuda Dr46onized Gaming release 6 month ago, it is the first distro that inspired me to take the step over to Linux. Still I consider my self a noob and a GUI user but im slowly learning commands and how to use the terminal... Now im running my pc on four screens without any issues what so ever, customized about everything possible and it looks awesome!! After detoxing from Windows software I now use only opensource software, that took me some time, it was har letting go of the programs ive learned to master... Today I manage all my needs on my Garuda system, grahpic design,gaming, banking and all officelike tasks. I can very much recomend you to try Garuda!! I only found it after trying 25+ distros and at that time was scared of leaving Windows, you will probably find everything youre looking for in Garuda!

[@ronnierush9379]

Great review Thanks: Just one question you said that its great and you use it on your laptop but probably not on your main machine. 22:37 OK after that I was wondering why not on your main computer, but you never said ? :-)

[@eflinux]

On my main machine I want to have the system I built. Also, I am sure that Garuda has improved since I made the video, but in those days I didn't feel it was stable enough for my main PC.

[@hussainkhorakiwala517]

Love from India... BTW are you switching?

[@eflinux]

No, Arch is still and will always be my favorite:)

[@hussainkhorakiwala517]

@@eflinux LOL ok but isn't garuda based on arch linux? I mean it will be the same thing right?

[@eflinux]

Yes, it is, but pure Arch is a system you can build the way you want to :)

[@hussainkhorakiwala517]

@@eflinux True... BTW you should try arco linux, it is also based on arch linux. It is also the linux distro I use.

[@eflinux]

I will eventually.

[@walter_lesaulnier]

Great video!! Garuda is excellent for its target audience. BTRFS was designed for massive enterprise installations. It is slow on home desktops. DJ Ware did an excellent comparison of file systems. F2FS shines on home desktops with SSDs and is what I use on all my systems. Snapshots can lull people into thinking of them as a real full backup. It is much better to create a full system image or functional clone, plus extra backups of irreplaceable files in Home, configs in etc, and the like.

[@alphabennyrosy5068]

autodefrag is on in fstab and u are using an ssd. Is that ok with btrfs ? Because with ext4, I heard it's bad to defrag an ssd. In documentation of btrfs I can't find an answer for this!!!

[@eflinux]

As far as I know, it does not damage that much. Ou have also the fstrim timer that you can use with ssd.

[@alphabennyrosy5068]

@@eflinux I heard there is a new discard option called discard=async which sounds interesting but only works on kernel 5.6+. My question is like is it recommended to keep that autodefrag option on or should I not use it on an ssd. Is there any advantages to keeping autodefrag option on?

[@eflinux]

I don't think is necessary.Because Btrfs is CoW, the process of defragmenting will write the new bits in a different area, causing unnecessary wear.

[@idw_audio_it]

Seems that AMD Whistler [Radeon HD 6630M/6650M/6750M/7670M/7690M] is not supported by the ArchLinux Graphic Installers. Is there any idea to get to the boot screen with this old graphic cards?

[@eflinux]

Hi believe those could work with the catalyst driver you find on the Wiki, but the downside is the driver is not anymore official supported and it doesn't support the latest version of Xorg, the same for olde Nvidia cards.

[@nelsono4315]

I have been using the Dragonized version of Garuda for a while and I have to say it is very nice. A really good looking distro. Thanks for the video

[@eflinux]

Thanks for sharing!

[@ashokchotai9653]

Been playing with Garuda Mate for about 3 weeks now having installed it fully on USB. After setting up, seems to be rock solid and particularly impressed with BTRFS instant snapshots. Slightly heavier ram usage than other Mate distros.

[@eflinux]

Thanks for sharing!

[@KishoreG2396]

So what exactly is the difference between the Dragonized version and the KDE Plasma (Ultimate Gaming) edition?

[@eflinux]

The dragonized version can out after I did the video and I haven't tried it yet.

[@armynyus9123]

Nice review. btw: `which zsh` is NOT telling you that you are actually running it, just that you have it installed. `echo $0` would e.g. tell you.

[@mr.lyrics4490]

Can you please help me by making a video installing Garuda? I make my usb bootable, run it, then garuda logo comes up and then everything freezes. Thank you

[@eflinux]

My suggestion is to post a question into their forums or via Telegram. They will help you out.

[@mr.lyrics4490]

@@eflinux ok. Thank you very much.

[@yasagarwal859]

I am not a fortune teller but I can predict that the linux has a great future. Seeing some fantastic linux distros Another tip if there is any consonant vowel cluster you can guess the distro is from India Bangladesh Pakistan.

[@aryajpegasus]

or japan, almost every character of their alphabets are consonant vowel clusters

[@Gameplayer55055]

So, Garuda is based on arch, and Manjaro also based on arch Which distro is better on your opinion?

[@eflinux]

I love Arch :) Manjaro is more mature and Garuda has great potential. For me though, vanilla Arch remains the best.

[@Gameplayer55055]

I think you're right. But what is better for beginner? I like arch for aur and rolling update style

[@AmidMajd]

Super nice and detailed Review. Thanks! super useful :)

[@eflinux]

Thanks for watching!

[@Archate]

Hi ernani i saw a post of your regarding freebsd. I have had some troubles getting it to run with nvidia or even intel graphic drivers. Never had a problem on linux on any distro but struggled on freebsd. Could u do a video on freebsd? I found it easy to set it up on virtual machine but on hardware was a challenge...

[@eflinux]

It can be a challenge. I had lots of issues on my laptop. Because it's a UEFI system I had to use the scfb driver for xorg to work.

[@Archate]

@@eflinux haa that makes sense

[@TusharShukladevx]

Can I recommend this to someone who is an absolute Linux beginner and is a non-technical person?

[@eflinux]

I'd say no. I'd go for Linux Lite or Mint.

[@manilaboy1vic]

I just installed it on my laptop and it kept spinning and spinning at the splash screen.. back to ubuntu.. ubuntu runs really well for me.. I tried to install the multimedia edition.. I dont see the ultimate edition on their site. I do have garuda running on a kvm... that ran ok initially.. not sure what happened on my laptop tho.

[@eflinux]

Garuda can be a little difficult in some configurations. I didn't use it for a while now.

[@HellcatM]

I tried it and I liked it, but like other Arch distros it didn't work well on my system. When I build my new computer, I'll definitely try it again.

[@MovieMoments-Erz]

Garuda Linux or Arch linux...?which better?

[@eflinux]

Garuda is based on Arch Linux, so they share the same basis. I honestly prefer vanilla Arch.

[@sharktooh76]

Garuda is gonna be my default OS on my systems. It's basically the right mix of Arch + Manjaro tools + btrfs out of the box

[@eflinux]

Let me know how it goes!

[@sharktooh76]

@@eflinux I was testing it just right before you made the first video on Garuda and I already was positively impressed. I will continue the testing including updates and stability until January 2021. If it passes (like i think it will) I'll start the migration on all my non server systems.

[@zc0rp10]

Have to admit that Garuda looked very tempting to me at first, it's feature rich out of the box and I personally think nearly all the DE flavors looked good and modern out of the box. But after spending some time reading a few of the threads with issues over at their forum I think it shows that this is not yet a very mature distribution and requires further work before I would consider adopting as my daily driver over Arch. The mods and creators seem present in the forums and want to be helpful in resolving problems which is good, but they do come across as stretched a little thin to deal with the influx of new users as some of the provided solutions are things that the user has stated as already attempted. Also the solutions provided comes across as "quick fixes" for that single user to apply to their specific system rather then addressing the root cause issue in the distribution itself via updates and sort the problem for the larger mass. At which point a user might as well stick with plain Arch in my opinion. Or go with the more mature Manjaro distribution if you they're looking for a batteries included experience, despite whatever other issues that distro might have.

[@eflinux]

I agree with you, it needs to mature. It needs time and I hope they are going to work to fix issues with each release. It is a young distro.

[@cootason]

I have been trialing it on my intel 6700k pc with 1080ti and kde 5.21 I thought the ui options were great but ran into some performance issues I used to run manjaro gnome so im going to test the gnome version on this to see if the performance hits are coming from kde on my 1080ti. Gnome ran butter smooth on this card and as I'm a gamer I need the performance in my games I was seeing random fps drops that I never see on manjaro gnome so hoping the gnome version performs better otherwise I think I'll stick with manjaro gnome rc2

[@GeorgevanderWesthuizen1]

The KDE edition is broken atm. Polkit does not autostart, so any apps that need admin user will fail. KZbin videos also crashes plasma. I'm downloading the Gnome edition now, as I really like the project and hope they improve.

[@eflinux]

You can give feedback to the dev on Twitter or on the Telegram group, they surely will appreciate it.

[@craigstone975]

Cinammon is nice. Load up metacity gnome gtk3 macos dark theme and icons. Use zfs and zsh though. I really like zfs. The file checksumming feature is not just good for data monitoring, it's good for security as well. With m2 nvme drives its smokin fast to.

[@sachindeveloperko8424]

Love you garura 🙏🙏🙏 thank you for making video

[@eflinux]

My pleasure 😊

[@markschofield538]

Did you run it from VM I use virtualbox

[@eflinux]

Yes, I used KVM in this video.

[@skullmammon909]

how you instal drivers on garuda ? maybe an idea for a future video?

[@eflinux]

You can install them the same way you do in Arch. The repos for that are the same.

[@lsatenstein]

Hi ET Well, with nvidea or without nvidia, my Garuda Gnome system locks up after I hit the enter key to signal it to load. Tried it with different options, without success. Video drivers are probably the cause. My video card is 10 years old.

[@eflinux]

Hi Leslie, probably, maybe the dmks driver might work, but I am not sure since I can't test it out myself. Maybe someone in the Gardua group on Telegram might be able to help you out if that doesn't work. Those guys are eager for feedback.

[@lsatenstein]

@@eflinux Good morning from Montreal EF. The Gnome Version does not install onto my desktop. However, the KDE version did justice. I cannot use the non-free drivers, as my nvidia video card is 10 years old. I guess I should buy a replacement for the card. With the free type drivers, installation was a nightmare. Transparency and hovering on spots invoked software that I was not interested to have. And here is a problem I encountered. On /dev/sda I installed the KDE version. I did want to try the gnome version so I retried the Gnome version on /dev/sdb. Within the bios it ended up replacing the kde version. There is something that Gadula does to complete the installation that results in a single entry for the product within the bios. There was to reviews about Fedora 33 that were posted today. My comments to one reviewer was as harsh as his review. Read that review first. May I suggest, if you plan a review, to visit the Fedora website and choose the Everything-Network install version. It has lots of options to appease distro tweakers. On one installation, using that Everything version, I have installed Gnome,KDE, mate,Cinnamon, I3, Xmonad, xfce, and more. And they all work with btrfs, which is the Fedora default. Apology, With the corona virus and the situation, I am not able to subscribe for regular financial contributions. I so much enjoy your videos. One request. when editing, take a breath pause between segments. Thank you..

[@eflinux]

Hi Leslie! I did record that video yesterday following your suggestion and thanking you for the tip:) I did install Fedora 33 with i3 and went through some changes. I think I know which review you are referring to. I honestly love Fedora (even I will stick with Arch) and probably some people don't like it because it is affiliated to Red Hat. To me, what is important is how the distro feels and works and that's where I'll focus :)

[@lsatenstein]

@@eflinux Hi Ermanno. May I say that I turn on my system to search for some distractions (American News), and then I search for your site on youtube. It is a joy to see a well put together installation of your video-of-the-day. From your btrfs presentations, and some copying of what you did, and some struggling on my part, I have gained knowledge of btrfs. I have setup btrfs for my separate shared disk. Thank you for being you, and do keep safe, the corona virus is wicked.

[@eflinux]

Hi Leslie, thanks for your comment and for sharing. Stay healthy.

[@grenvillephillips6998]

It looks great right out of the box and probably strays a little towards OTT, but snappy works very well. It might need a little getting used to, compared with a standard Arch install.

[@aavdhut]

Thanks man you don't butchered the pronunciation

[@antisoc1al]

So from the way it looks, it just seems like "easy mode" Arch Linux. Basically it's Arch if you're scared of command line, or you don't know a lot about Linux.

[@traditionalFGC]

Or Arch for people who have things to do besides configure their Linux installation. lol.

[@GuyPipili]

I couldn't get past the splash screen. I tried several times for xfce flavor and it won't advance to calamare. I used free for gpu as well as non-free.

[@eflinux]

Surely a driver issue. You might want to shoot a question in the Telegram group.

[@GuyPipili]

@@eflinux I have left a post in their forum. I will try telegram if I don't get a response.

[@GuyPipili]

@@eflinux Apparently, you can't use the iso in Ventoy. Also, burning the iso using etcher or dd in a Linux environment works. This installer is very picky. So, if anyone has issues with installing Garuda, this could be the culprit.

[@eflinux]

I always use Etcher, never had an issue. Maybe I'll mention this in the video description. Thanks for pointing this out.

[@GuyPipili]

@@eflinux I always use Etcher myself. But it can't be used using Ventoy or other multi iso environments. Also, for some reason, etcher in Windows doesn't work either, just in Linux environments. I don't know what causes this very specific parameters, thinking it could be because it uses BTRFS file manager. It isn't because of calamares as far as I can tell for have other distros that uses calamares on Ventoy and burned with etcher in Windows.

[@peterjansen4826]

I tried the Linux Zen kernel (3700X), on my system Xanmod works better.

[@peppe540]

Thanks for the look, Ermanno. I couldn't stand it, tbh. A bloated copy of Manjaro, with the Welcome utility of Endeavour. But good to have another option in Arch anyway. Speed with 1.5 to 2GB memory in use is of course no issue.

[@eflinux]

Thanks for sharing Peppe.

[@peppe540]

@@eflinux I was perhaps a bit harsh. Should not give comments early Sunday morning I guess ;-) Next feedback will be more moderated ;-) Keep up the good work!

[@eflinux]

Honest opinions are always welcome!

[@Felipe-lu6uv]

Hi, I really tried Garuda Linux, but it has some minor bugs that I dislike, like the sound icon that my computer feezed.. Im back to Arco Linux B KDE, you need to make a video about Arco Linux, is really well made. Thanks for the video!

[@eflinux]

Thanks for sharing!

[@kshitijtardalkar4166]

Awesome work man! Lots of love from India. BTW I am using the i3 version of Garuda to get used to i3 for the past 2 months... Now I think I am gonna go back to vanilla arch after some time and actually install and do the whole i3 configuration myself... I3 is super fun, I am loving it more than any typical de😀😀

[@tomoghnosen]

The Best Indian Linux Distro

[@Dark_Lobster]

Any guides for reinstalling while keeping your /home?

[@eflinux]

You can do manual partitioning in Calamares.

[@pakistanigamer6525]

just mount /home without formatting

[@lakshminarasimmanv]

Right on time.

[@АндрейШишкалов-р6я]

Спасибо за видео. Мне очень Симпатизирует твоя философия. Вдохновленный твоим роликом решил перейти на Garuda Linux но столкнулся с проблемой на Wine не могу установить java для запуска некоторых рабочих программ. Сними небольшой гайд, помоги пожалуйста

[@eflinux]

Thanks for your comment. As I don't have Garuda currently installed I can't really say, and I would just be guessing. What I can suggest you is to look or post in the Garuda forums as the devs are very active there.

[@АндрейШишкалов-р6я]

@@eflinux Thank you

[@youssefbouzidi4672]

Thanks

[@YuriShevchouk]

At the end of the video you mentioned there is a barebones version without network,, just so you know you can get network up by using only system d.

[@eflinux]

Thanks for the tip. I didn’t have much time yet with the barebone version. I’ll dig a little deeper in there.

[@YuriShevchouk]

@@eflinux it's available for all distros with systemd.

[@eflinux]

Sure, but there is no way to get a network icon on the desktop, as far as I know. I wouldn't have a problem with that, but for some users it might be a problem.

[@busancun]

Wonder if this system is secure enough.

[@eflinux]

You can always adjust it to your needs.

[@EelboDominique]

the arch edtion is too big for dvd burning!!

[@eirikmurito]

I cant stand arch based distributions, theyre so fragile you cant even look at them without them falling apart. You can update mint all day long and it works fine. Try doing that with an arch distro..

[@eflinux]

Thanks for sharing that! Arch-based distros (and Arch itself) are rolling releases with the latest kernel and software packages, whereas Linux Mint 20.1 being based on Ubuntu LTS uses an earlier kernel and therefore receives fewer updates. They are two completely different beasts and I think there is a use case for both, beside the personal preference. I am using Arch for two years and I never had an issue with it. Having said that, it does require more "maintenance" and regular updates. Cheers!

[@wazowski2766]

camera too small in my opnion

[@eflinux]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@sonulohani]

Nice, first comment

[@behindthescene9066]

Idk its spell garuuda

[@lifepath7741]

I wish to have the power to destroy all Linux distributions. Because I am not able to understand nothing.