Greatest Linux Experience Ever

[@BruceCarbonLakeriver]

I daily drive Garuda since March this year and it is awesome!

[@eBuzzCentral]

That's awesome!

[@tekki2060]

I've been into Unix for for over 35 years. I owned a software development company that Unix performance software. I've been using Linux for over 25 years. Everybody has their opinions concerning which version of Linux is best. I haven't looked at all of them but I've looked at all the major ones. I will say that when I opted to use a version of Linux as my main desktop I selected Linux Mint. I have yet to find a version that is easier to get up and maintain. It has everything that I need and I can do just about anything on Mint that I can do on Windows.

[@STONE69_]

Same here Frank, I have been using Linux Mint for 9 years now, and it has served me well. Most stability I have had on any Distro.

[@dullahangaming5107]

@@STONE69_ Mint is great, but its further behind, relies on Ubuntu on its main distro, and comes with a clean desktops but that lack customization. That said it is still the version of Linux I recommend to general PC users considering Linux. At this point I do recommend Garuda Gaming for gamers over Mint.

[@STONE69_]

@@dullahangaming5107 Garuda is to buggy, you will be going back to Mint, like many people do. Its a waste of my time to be fixing things all the time.

[@jchoneandonly]

I've been dipping my toes with pop personally. Was either that or mint.

[@stefanomanenti8162]

I'm curious, what are your feels and toughts about Fedora?

[@wiz3905]

Spent 2 nights downloading Linux OS after watching tons of KZbin videos. My install jamed up because my internet download spd! Installed LMDE, feron, AV MX XFCE, Garuda Gnome, Geruda LM. Finally I was able to wipe windows of my laptop. I'll be installing Garuda Gnome on the Learning Edit Box. Thank you🙉 🗽

[@razorduke]

Oh and one more thing-- Love FireDragon. Big LibreWolf fan over here!

[@tigerscott2966]

Linux Mint is my go to operating system. I ran it on a 12 year old computer around the clock for 2 years straight and it never crashed or picked up any malicious code and zero error messages.

[@Ryan-ct3rv]

Garuda was the first distro I felt comfortable enough with the put on my main PC which I mainly use for gaming.Since then I've hopped many times but Garuda will always hold a special place in my heart. I love garuda assistant, having basically everything I could possibly want to do with my computer all in one place was fantastic, I would never have felt comfortable as a new user manually installing different kernals or settings up btrfs snapshots.

[@damadorpl]

Nice vid. I'am using EndeavourOS since a year or so ... The same experience. Hard to broke

[@eBuzzCentral]

Thanks for sharing

[@damadorpl]

For note. Moved to arch from Kubuntu . On Kubuntu i couldn't easy use latest package for KDE. Even using official backports it end up with some crash problems. On arch I can stay on latest software in few days as they come live. Another nice thing on Garuda is fish shell. For newbies will make easier experience to using terminal emulator than using pure bash.

[@smile768]

High praise indeed! I like your friendly and polite style.

[@eBuzzCentral]

Thank you and thank you for the comment for watching the video

[@joemeatmama2267]

I know this video has been out for about 6 months already, but what the heck... I have been displeased with the route that the Windows os has been going for some time but have never made a switch to Linux because I like to game on a regular basis. I've tinkered with Linux at different times over that last 15 years but until recently I haven't honestly tried to use it as a "daily driver". I installed Garuda on a second nvme drive in my Alienware laptop and I have to say... it has been fantastic. I enjoyed the initial setup for a while but I honestly have done the same as you have in the video and dropped the Latte dock / switched icon sets and tweaked the look of everything to a more standard looking desktop. As a gamer, I'm pretty happy with how many games actually are ported for native linux use and there are a lot of options for other games that I honestly haven't dove into just yet. I'm finding that this distro is working great for me and providing me with the functional desktop environment that I wanted while also allowing me to start tinkering and developing my linux os skills. 👍

[@eBuzzCentral]

Great to hear, thank you so much for the comment and for watching the video.

[@Uniblab8]

Some of this reminds me of MX, especially the tools available with one click all in one place. Good stuff.

[@sinisasinkovic4334]

@@Andy-AJC72 MX is from Greece

[@zamSEG]

they keep getting better and better... kudos.

[@richardmonroe4208]

Have been an Arcolinux fan for a few years and that continues but as Erik says: "It's all Arch!" So, have made Garuda my main distro but use Erik's Tweak Tool (now called Archlinux-Tweak-Tool) along with the repositories and have the best of both worlds. I also prefer the default panel instead of Latte Dock. Thanks for the icon tip (Uos). Along side of Garuda, I have installed Endeavour OS which I experiment on and try/rice various window managers.

[@natejennings5884]

I'd been a Linux Mint guy for years, but got into Arch thanks to Manjaro and Garuda. Garuda wins it in a landslide though. I use Garuda with the Cinnamon desktop as I grew accustomed to it from Mint and my old Windows XP (which Cinnamon resembles) days.

[@eiboeck88]

i had such an good experiance with arco linux i installed it on my new laptop and everthing worked out of the box the ony thing i had to do is add one kernel parameter because of the nvidia drivers witch was very easy one look at the arch wiki on my main machine it just installed without any problems

[@rmcellig]

My favorite experience has been with fossapup. No other distro I have used has come close. When it comes to setup, backups etc... It's excellent!!! I need a fast distro that delivers what I need. I work in a tight setting without dealing with issues I need to address. In fossapup you create a save folder that contains everything. Once I have everything setup I make a few copies of the save folder. If for whatever reason my current save folder has an issue I just reboot and select one of the copied folders. So easy and fast. Too bad no one has ever done a proper review of this future hall of Fame distro. I have been using puppy Linux since 2009.

[@whydoyouaskdude]

Pretty much got something similar set up with btrfs on arch with daily snapshots which are mirrored to an external drive. If anything goes wrong I got *everything* up and running within seconds when booting into a working snapshot or copying the external ones back to a drive

[@Theineluctable_SOME_CANT]

Will definitely give it a go. Linux since 1998. Unix, since 1988 😉☺🤪

[@eBuzzCentral]

Thank you so much for sharing and if you do give it a try check back and let me know how it goes

[@Theineluctable_SOME_CANT]

@@eBuzzCentral okay.

[@williamsmith3169]

Had Manjaro installed for 3.5 years and agree with your findings, which mirror my own. A lot of people told me to move to pure Arch which I did about six months ago and I've never looked back.

[@mireilleTGmimi]

well,well impressive that garuda Linux . i was so impress i use the cinnamon version for my daily driver , and also in plasma just because it look to good to pass by . i din's know the existence since a few month from reviews like your TY 💯

[@jidun9478]

I like your videos, good job! I started using Linux in the late 90's. I started out with Red Hat, it was really rough back then. I distro hopped many many many times sticking for long periods to fedora, ubuntu and mint. Then 3 or four years ago I moved to Manjaro as I was tired of the forced fresh upgrades when the LTS ran out. It has been the best so far for me. Like you said though it does have small intermittant issues. I don't like the forced zsh though as it comes default because of the rediculous yakuake pull down ready terminal. Occasionally this causes problems. I recently bit the bullet and installed Arch itself and to say that I was severely underwhelmed as I found myself building up an OS out of the box to be like my beloved Manjaro was a complete waste of time for me. That is also why I like Manjaro over Endeavor. Now, this is the first I have heard of Garuda being better for legitimate reasons. I looked at it and like others I was really turned off by the weird icons etc. I have a fresh Manjaro install on my laptop right now it runs great even with all open source only drivers! That is incredible to me as I just bought this cheap hp laptop a few months ago. I was considering giving Garuda a run on though but, that out the box look was so unappealing to me I decided against it. I am on the fence now though and may give it a try as I haven't got too deep into this laptop yet. ;)

[@KristophM]

That wallpaper is wild

[@sunriseleatherco.6587]

I agree. Garuda is a painless linux experience lol. I'm running it with the Sway window manager and no complaints at all.

[@michelverrier9144]

Garuda Linux was the distro that makes me hop to the arch realm ... The only problem I had with that distro in one year and a half, was related to an old nvidia card I had but I changed for an Amd gpu and had no problems at all since ... I love this distro a lot !

[@JimmySolution]

Garuda is cool. Especially Xfce, which I think it's their best one. However, I did experience issues with changing the kernel to LTS and I also had issue with BTRFS Assistant. It is worth trying it. My best experience is MX Linux. I am using it at the moment.

[@dullahangaming5107]

Totally agree about Garuda. Garuda Gaming was my first foray into Arch, and I was really surprised how easy it was. Ive read a lot of smacktalk about its bloat, but it runs well even on a low spec mini PC and only took 30 minutes to scrap stuff I didn't need. My game benchmarks also went up by about 10% over MX Linux. BTW, Garuda has Discover which can search both applications and flatpaks, including Kodi. You actually made it harder than it had to be.

[@mrstryfe]

i started running linux back in 1995 when I was hired as a sysadmin at a local ISP. I had been working for a SCO VAR at the time and was tired of traveling all over the midwest. I have been using Garuda as my go to linux for the last year, I even removed fedora from my laptop. I also got rid of latte and went back to the default panel and I did a few other customizations. I HATED the top mac like menu (and i have to use reading glasses so it was a neck pain on this big monitor.) Garuda and Fedora are neck and neck for usability but... Garuda wins out.

[@razorduke]

I had high hopes for Solus until Ikey left the project but I'm currently using Garuda (KDE Dr460nized). I wasn't really sure about it when I first fired it up from the USB stick but I went ahead and installed it anyway to give it a shot. I've been on Garuda since before I even knew about your KZbin channel and I totally agree with your take on the OS-- it's been a smooth experience for me as well. I, a self-proclaimed distro-hopper, have tried so many distributions over the years but there's always been something I didn't like or that didn't quite work correctly. Huge kudos to the Garuda devs for making such a great distro!

[@bobcarroll]

Garuda's forced use of BTRFS is a deal-breaker for me. OS-Prober and Grub-Customizer do not detect OS's on BTRFS and XFS (ex: CachyOS) partitions. These grub boot programs work fine with EXT2/3/4, FAT32 or NTFS. For someone installing only one Linux distro, Garuda might be worth a look. But if you multiboot into more than one Linux distro, it's not worth the extra grub boot menu hassles. I instead chose to install from the ArcoLinux-B Plasma ISO and added the Cutefish desktop. KDE and Cutefish use the QT framework. With two login desktop options, the same apps can be used in either session. In addition to preinstalled Arch command-line software manager programs yay, paru and Pacman, two GUI software managers are also preinstalled, KDE Discover and Manjaro's Pamac. I like Pamac much better than Octopi.

[@tennishiker]

If you just want to try Arcolinux Cutefish, you can save 150 MB of memory usage by installing from the Arcolinux-D ISO which does not install any unnecessary KDE dependencies.

[@forrestorange]

This is unfortunately true, been using Garuda alongside Windows and Fedora and switching to Fedora can only be done in BIOS which is a bit of a hassle. But on the positive side, I find that I'm not really tempted to switch all that often. I've been using Garuda for 6 months now and so far not much to complain about (maybe even nothing, because things get fixed pretty quickly).

[@fabrice9848]

You convinced me to give it a try. Edit: Garuda OS is not so great in my experience... And my hardware is very recent. I went back to my fedora pretty quickly. I tested many distros and none of them was equivalent in stability and performance to fedora.

[@russellbrooks3622]

Garuda is excellent, but being a Cinnamon user, I had a few problems with Garuda Cinnamon. After Ubuntu 22.04 came out, it turned out that Xubuntu with Cinnamon added is the best Linux experience I've had. It's been my daily driver since April 2022. Garuda is very much like MX Linux in their philosophy, providing many utilities to help you take control of your system. Problem is, some of those utilities take control of things that I don't want them to. I like a distro that lets you set things up exactly as you want and stays out of the way. I do wish Ubuntu would dump their snap policy, but that's not a deal-breaker for me. Xubuntu is the only distro that never gives me any issues running Cinnamon, and I've done a lot of testing. Even Linux Mint falls short there. KDE is great. Just not my thing.

[@Blessed2bFresh]

LMDE 5 has been my personal favorite Cinnamon experience. I used to enjoy Xubuntu but I try to avoid snaps aside from photogimp. Just discovered Spiral for my only Intel machine and it's been rock solid with Gnome for my TV tower. Cinnamon is also offered

[@jimmyrichards5595]

I've been using Garuda KDE Dr460nized Gaming Edition for nine months now.. I also install Cinnamon and Enlightnement, which both work just like they should on my end. No problem with Cinnamon here at all. What does conflict with and can screw up my KDE Dr460nized desktop is if I install the Deepin DE(which uses kwin). Especially if I change from the light to dark theme in Deepin.

[@JimmySolution]

@@jimmyrichards5595 Yea, Kwin is problematic. For example, I haven't tested so far any LXDE-Kwin that did not have major issues.

[@jimmyrichards5595]

@@JimmySolution Well, I have not had any problems with kwin, over periods of years. What I described is not what I would call a problem. It is what I called a “conflict” with another desktop environment that uses the same window manager. Kwin is setup and configured in a certain way for the KDE Dr406nized desktop by Garuda. This conflicts with the vanilla arch Deepin setup and config for kwin. If you just install one and not both, then there is no problem and kwin works swimmingly.

[@abaneyone]

Thanks for telling us about Uos icons. They're great on my Siduction KDE setup. BTW I love Garuda too. :D

[@MrFrgtme]

I like OpenSuse Leap to much to switch. It's fantastic.

[@feelsbad1193]

The Zen kernel is very smooth with Garuda. I tried it an liked it. So many updates and broke some for me.

[@WololoWololo2]

Apply Garuda Linux System file repairs

[@jessieo5757]

I do a year long linux test on distros. I just finished Garuda a couple months ago. It is a great distro especially for gaming. It does have an issue after long use with bloating that causes issues to arise. As long as you stay on top of your updates over time though, you could mitigate that.

[@lucamichelle1478]

+1

[@markpaterson6024]

+2

[@mkrleza]

Hvala!

[@eBuzzCentral]

Thank you so much my friend.

[@MrKHOKOLAT]

My first ever distro was garuda. This was the distro that made me do the jump from windows to linux. I loved it. The thing is: I started to have issues in the appearence. The blured background effect after a couple of days went away and the emojis had hiccups also. I also had issues with the panel and dock. I swapped to Manjaro but I think I did something wrong because one day I did not have any space and I couldn't create any new document whatsoever. I am now in Xubuntu but I will like to give garuda another try.

[@eBuzzCentral]

Yes, if you get rid of the latte dock and just go with the default panel and make it floating it really looks good and the issues have pretty much all been worked out it is a great OS thanks for the comment for watching the video

[@BookOfMorman]

Ill be trying Garuda because of you :) I'm trying to get into Linux and at some point, Arch. Garuda seems like a solid step in that direction to really learn the OS and File System

[@davidwayne9982]

I DO agree on the icons you used here--- and I wondered what they were.. :)

[@agaskew]

I've been using SimpleNote forever :)

[@sharktooh76]

Garuda evolved and is constantly evolving and is getting better and better. Troy got rid of Latte Dock that was eating a lot of RAM.

[@BtZealot]

I visited the website, and I was impressed. The only desktop that really wasn't in Garuda color scheme was XFCE. If I decide to hop to an Arch distro, it will be Garuda.

[@Rahmancarr]

I'm LOVING Garuda KDE! I was set on Manjaro being my primary distro until I tried Garuda. All of the Garuda apps really make system setup and maintenance a BREEZE! The only thing I don't like is cosmetic - KDE's inability to easily and automatically switch themes from day to night. (yes, I'm familiar with Koi, but it's buggy and doesn't switch everything). I thought that I would hate the glowing neon icons, but they really do look nice on a good display and add some nice pop.

[@alexdukec.7551]

I’m gonna live usb this thing. Try it out

[@mkrleza]

Ya know what? I will try this on that Lenovo Legion laptop (I don't know if you remember) that no distro has had any luck recognizing the wi-fi module.

[@eBuzzCentral]

Please do, I want to know if the Zen kernel will recognize that Wi-Fi adapter. I know you're busy but once you get a chance to try it out check back in and let me know. Hope you and your family are well my friend.

[@WololoWololo2]

How is Garuda linux dragonized gaming after 1 year?

[@nowycwan]

When I start using Linux, I was using KateOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, PC Linux OS and Mandriva. But I find OpenSUSE and I can tell: I do not known other operating systems. I know that maybe it is bad. Yes, in meantime I use also Windows, but OpenSUSE gives me best Operating System experience I ever had. A dozen or so years I use OpenSUSE and it is great. I have Yast, which is great and maybe OpenSUSE is resource hungry (I also use Plasma5), but I decide I do not waste time on testing other systems, because OpenSUSE is so great.

[@MotownBatman]

I think the Theme looks sweet. I was torn on setting this up for my dad, but ultimately with his eyesight and being stubborn, I went with Mint20 themed like Win1x

[@revanvonheaven8270]

Zorin OS 16.1 pro I have an RTX3060 I need the Nvidia driver I love the OS but I messed up the Nvidia installation can someone please help with the query.

[@ayikart]

I love octopi.

[@RifterDask]

Garuda is amazing if you want to do zero setup and just start playing games immediately. Everything you need is right there, front and center.

[@ToranK]

Garuda Wayfire installed fine on my PC. And after updating I could not reboot anymore. So be warned.

[@eBuzzCentral]

I'm still running Garuda KDE with absolutely no issues at all.

[@WololoWololo2]

Apply system file repairs

[@benjy288]

The issue you're talking about where kodi supposedly doesn't gather all dependencies isn't a linux issue, kodi runs just fine here on opensuse tumbleweed, no flatpak needed.

[@huljaxful]

In my opinion, linux mint and pop!os are two of the.most polished and stable OSes. I distrohopped a lot but was always coming back to mint and cinnamon. But pop!os got me with windows tilling, great key bindings etc. Still going back and forth with those 2. I use rescuezilla and have images og mint, pop!os and LMDE.

[@kazumak.1542]

Alot say mint looks dated

[@eBuzzCentral]

I'm one of those, I think Mint it looks extremely dated

[@johncate9541]

@@eBuzzCentral Maybe, but I would say the same about Mint that you said about Garuda--it would take about five minutes to change the look to something you prefer.

[@peterschmidt9942]

That's one thing that has annoyed me with my own Linux journey (other than the stability issues with some distros) is the memory leaks. It starts off well at under 1GB of RAM, then slowly drifts off during the day/week and constantly having to either shut down a browser or restarting the system entirely to restore it. Because I go between Windows and Linux ATM, sometimes that's not an issue but can still be annoying. I'm still surfing distros even after all this time LOL. I really need to install Windows in a virtual machine. ATM I'm running Manjaro on my Acer Nitro as I was having issues with Fedora on it, but running Fedora on another laptop (and it's running fine). Manjaro seems to be running fine too ATM. Although I am updating the system on the command line now, only update every week or so and only using pamac to install apps. When I did try Garuda, the far out neon colours really isn't my thing, so dismissed it quickly. There was something else too, but I can't remember why. But I've seen how you've been playing around with it and customising it to your liking. It might be a good alternative to Manjaro for this particular laptop that's fussy with Linux distros, having also an NVidia card in it. BTW The name of the google notes app is Keep. I don't mind it and it's probably one of the better free note taking apps. But a lot of the time I don't need anything fancy, so on Windows I use sticky notes (which I like) and inbuilt Notes on the iphone. I'd love to find a simple sticky notes alternative on Linux though. What I'd really like to use is Notes 3 on the QNAP, but last time using Notes on QNAP it was reeeeeally slow to the point of being unable.

[@jongeduard]

Thanks for sharing this! Great Arch Linux fan here. Personally I am really working vanilla-Arch based. I set up everything myself. That is because my personal choice was to learn a lot of the technical side of Linux as well as for doing everything exactly my own way from the start. And it also helps a bit to keep the system even smaller by installing nothing more than you exactly want or need. But I certainly believe the experience of Garuda can be among the really good ones. I believe that's also because it's Arch based, as well by good work from the Garuda developers. There are a lot of good and bad choices when it comes to Arch based distros. If the develpers did a good job an put some serious effort in it, you can notice that. And like you, after also having experience with Manjaro, I can say that that one is a very mediocre one. Things in Manjaro tend to break more often than in a vanilla Arch system and are ironically also a lot harder to fix than in the vanilla system, largely because the extra tools tend to hide or override vanilla Arch it's simple tools. Worst things I experienced are certain kind of forced uninstalls of packages, compatibility issues of packages versions, and certain issues with Timeshift which completely ignores things like remaining disk space (okay that one may have some good explanations in some technical Btrfs related stuff, but you get the idea when it comes to the overall experience).

[@johnmal5975]

Love the way Garuda is set up makes things very easy. I have had no luck with it. KDE version always starts off smooth then freezes to the point I have to force a shutdown. Fedoras KDE does same thing no matter if an wayland or x-11. Xerolinux and KDE Neon that never ever happens? However I would recommend Garuda for a new user as well. My computer doesn't like Garuda and Fedora for whatever reason but they are good distros.

[@_dev_null_]

Garuda is an amazing way to get into Arch or Linux in general.

[@KristophM]

That Su/Do Highway to Shell hoodie is amazing 🤣

[@jchoneandonly]

I've used Linux for about 15 seconds. Lol. Pop seems like a nice beginner so far

[@eBuzzCentral]

Great to hear!

[@yogababes9827]

Garuda hurts my eyes.

[@AyaWetts]

I tried Barebones KDE Garuda and I liked it a lot... I almost used it as my main, but just went plain old arch instead. Barebones version of Garuda is best though, it has like nothing extra and is really barebones and helps you get on what you want. Unless you want the highly customized Garuda default desktop and apps, I'd suggest going barebones version instead. EDit: I think they changed the named from Barebones to Garuda Linux KDE lite... looks the same.

[@cantdance3077]

Still enjoying my Manjaro Linux. Everything just works. I haven't checked the memory 'drain' though. Updates have basically been flawless.

[@stefanomanenti8162]

Actually, I think that OpenSuse TW is the best linux experience I ever had, both on KDE and GNOME, anyway I'll give Garuda a shot!🤓

[@benjy288]

Tumbleweed is the best, garuda is just arch, I used to use arch years ago but see no reason to go back to it now that tumbleweed exists.

[@tinem67]

Omg you recommended arch to newbies? My nine year old installed Garuda dragonized. It's that easy!

[@dullahangaming5107]

Agreed. It was a great first Arch distro for me, and I had been putting off Arch for almost a year hoping SteamOS would be the easy answer. I wouldn't switch to SteamOS now even if they finally dropped a desktop iso.

[@vanodon2257]

Personally prefer endeavor if i was too lazy to install arch properly but good video

[@ayikart]

I'm having greatest linux experience with endeavor, but Garuda OS is also great.

[@kaveiros1]

I use Garuda KDE in a production machine too and is by far the most easy to use stable experience. 5 months now nothing broken (except 2-3 kde bugs that were solved by kde developers). I really can’t understand why most KZbinrs these days recommend fedora to new users. I use fedora too and event setting up basic things takes 3 times the time you need with a distro like Garuda. Also all my hardware works better than fedora. Even wayland on Garuda kde has less problems than on fedora or Ubuntu with gnome on wayland.

[@eBuzzCentral]

Thanks for sharing and for watching the video.

[@fabrice9848]

Does Alacritty comes installed by default?

[@LeslieRussell]

I have been using linux since '98 (the slackware book) have been an arch guy since a few years ago, and I think Garuda is my favorite arch distro. I run No Man's Sky and all my work stuff with very little impact on mem. But I am using the bspwm roll so that might help.

[@eBuzzCentral]

Thanks for sharing!

[@davidwayne9982]

I"m liking SPIRAL LINUX so far..... wanted BLUE STAR-- love that- but can't figure out how to do some of it.. did install it and could NOT get octipi and that to work- and other issues.. my absolutely BEST experience in Linux-- is MX21-- which I have on USB in MY CUSTOMIZED version..

[@josiahgil]

Is there a way to reduce the ram usage, I need as much ram as i can get for blender, and resource heavy tasks like simulations and rendering

[@rudraneelmandal4741]

How did u install Deepin DE on Garuda Linux? Please tell.

[@eBuzzCentral]

I just used the UOS icon pack, I didn't install deeping.

[@rudraneelmandal4741]

@@eBuzzCentral ohhhh

[@henyadose]

I'm on a laptop and unlike windows I don't see how to limit battery charging to a certain percentage on garuda linux or any other linux

[@zmaint]

I can have Solus Plasma installed and be gaming in less than 10 min (with an SSD), with an Nvidia card - no terminal usage required.

[@davidsmith7208]

I'm interested in Garuda, but some issues I have. Several tools being Garuda specific, one example, if I recall correctly are the grub tools. Like garuda-os-prober, things like that, this I might be remembering incorrectly. Big problem, for me, I want to use bash, not fish, and I want to strip it and it's expected presence from the system entirely. I'm not saying it can't be done, simply that I've not been able to do it. I think if I could do that, it would remove my biggest objection to giving Garuda a real shot.

[@JamesJones-zt2yx]

Putting together a new computer, and I am definitely going to put Garuda on it (and once it's set up, probably switch my current computer over too, moving away from Ubuntu).

[@k3ppi537]

Why only 8gb ram on "production machine "?

[@eBuzzCentral]

It's all I need, it works perfectly.

[@lpcamargo]

Regardless of the 700mb at rest, if you get away with 8gb total on your production machine, that's something to point out!

[@StormCrusher94]

I've been thinking of switching to another distro from popOS (with KDEplasma DE) on my laptop as something just got weird with. First wanted to switch to the newest ubuntu release as that is what we have set up at uni, but watching videos people aren't really fond of the gnome environment and I wasn't either on popOS. So was thinking of switching to an arch linux distro as they seem to be a bit more competent in what they are doing, but am scared if the programs I "need" to use for school work might not work (Climate Data Operators (cdo for short) and Panoply as examples). Coding programmes should be obviously easy to install, right?

[@davidwayne9982]

Octipi? Same as BLUE STAR LINUX??? I loved the look and feel of BLUE STAR and wanted to use it- but don't have the arch knowledge to use it or set it up right.. so- didn't. I'm OLD and don't see well- and Just don't feel up to learning a bunch of new crap.. and trying to edit TEXT.. :) WISH I COULD-- I loved the look and feel of BLUE STAR.

[@renealbrechtsen9743]

Have you tried Endeavour ?

[@eBuzzCentral]

Yes I have I still like Garuda over that.

[@Bunuffin]

Garuda was my first and the worst so far, and the forums, oh boy the forums, a bunch of pumped up jackasses (ofc there are a couple that are amazing people) that don't understand that people will not spend half of the day on the arch wiki... now i'm on Nobara and it's completely different experience, Garuda broke for me after a couple of mounts of usage, every time

[@skytale35]

Good video, interesting take . . . I have also been doing the linux deal for close to 15 years . . . I hopped from distro to distro . . . not because I was looking for something . . . but I just wanted to know the differences. I landed on EndeavorOS last year and have no inclination to leave. I went with an i3wm desktop. Manjaro, btw, is hands down my least favorite of the distros, arch based or not. It is the only distro out of the dozens I have tried that I felt the developers didn't have a clear goal in mind. Nice video and break down of Garuda . . . but not enough to pull me away from EndeavorOS. :).

[@Chrisg457]

I have ran Garuda Game Edition a few times. The last time I tried to install it the install failed. Now to be fair this was a while back not long after they came out. I have had it installed where I was able to run my steam library and everything ran great. However it is more bloated than what I care for. I have been running Void Cinnamon and have been really happy with it for a while now. However I am glad Garuda is moving up. When they first came out it had severe stability issues so I'm glad it seems that is getting resolved. Should I ever return to an Arch base I may have to revisit Garuda.

[@eBuzzCentral]

Thanks for sharing and for watching the video

[@WololoWololo2]

Atleast it's less bloated than Windows 11 lol

[@Casper-bj6po]

I never had a problem with Manjaro. Alot of people complain, But i had no problems. Im just lucky i guess

[@eBuzzCentral]

That's the way it was for me for 4 years, little things here and there and then everything just went to pot. I have never experienced the ease of use ever with any other distro than I have with Garuda.

[@Chrisg457]

@@eBuzzCentral Have you ever considered covering Void?

[@jacquesroux7362]

Tried Garuda and while its feature packed, it seemed to break easily. Mint was great and Nobara is now my favorite

[@artedwards717]

I think I will give it a try what could go wrong!!!!!!!!!!

[@MikeWardNet]

Tried dozens of distros. Solus easily outpaced the others.

[@elyzsabethahne2116]

The last time I heard anything about Garuda Linux, someone said that it ran slow. I'd be interested in finding out how Garuda does in comparison/contrast to Endeavour OS.

[@ruddock7]

For me Garuda runs exceptionally fast and looks gorgeous, i use the cinnamon version myself as i find the kde version a little too flashy for me!!

[@ItchyGames]

Hey e-buzz. Thanks for the video. Helped me get to a more comfortable desktop environment. Couple quick questions: How can I move the "task bar" at the bottom to a different monitor as its currently configured? How to remove window animation when being dragged? Finally, I have steam games on a secondary hard drive, I can see them, but not launch any of them (formatted when still using windows).

[@TheBikerman360]

nice wallpaper

[@eBuzzCentral]

Thank you

[@BjornsTIR]

I like Endeavour OS better. Garuda does too much theming for me that takes some time to remove.

[@decoydave]

How would you compare this to StormOs that you did a few months ago?

[@eBuzzCentral]

My next video is actually on StormOS. They made some changes in a few updates and I want to go ahead and cover those on the channel. At this moment in time Storm is still on my two business laptops, and will stay there for the foreseeable future. Now on my kids and my desktop and my Lenovo laptop Garuda is what's installed. My son games on steam, and has no issues at all as well as my daughter. They are both great operating systems, and I believe either one would suit your needs

[@davidwayne9982]

Wow.. out of 16 gig (on mine) who would CARE if it's running that little bit more than xfce or some such?? Some people would complain if it spit out hundred dollar bills every 2 seconds.. :) I really am not crazy about the look of Garuda-- loved it at first-- but after seeing it a few times- I would have to change it.. so think I'll just stick with what I have..

[@northof-62]

Solus KDE for me. But my new Vivibook from Asus won't have any distro so far. (Downloading Garuda now) . I probably have to run Windows for a couple of years before Torvalds and his crowd catch up on the hardware.

[@northof-62]

Ok that Garuda distro has the fastest boot time I've seen so far! But as with all other distributions out recently, it does not recognise the keyboard. And there's a long list of unknown devices. So no go until a kernel update I guess. It sure looks promising though! I connected a USB-keyboard and it works fine. (Back to that M$ system now :-P )

[@eBuzzCentral]

What kind of laptop is it?

[@northof-62]

@@eBuzzCentral It's an Asus Vivobook K3402ZA laptop, released earlier this year.

[@northof-62]

Update 22. Oct 2022 I found a patched kernel that works on Ubuntu. My Asus Vivobook now runs Kubuntu 22.10 exclusively. Thanks to Amit Singh Dalal.

[@zacharyclary8148]

I've been a Fedora user for years, I've tried Ubuntu a few times - could never get into it. I ONCE tried straight Arch for a challenge... Challenge sounds easier than what it was. My biggest question and concern is using AUR over RPM or DEB files which are available for most everything that supports Linux. Is everything run from a tar ball that's not gotten through octopi? Thanks!

[@IMBREISGAU]

It's (may Allah forgive me for uttering this word) KDE, relax. Use better DE (Gnome). also that Garuda assistant is very similar to Endeavour's welcome app.

[@patslee1394]

could this run ok on my 8gb ram raspberry pi

[@wafdsjhnszfgdgjesawetr]

or you can use arch installer

[@npaladin2000]

Wouldn it it be easier to just use the Cinnamon version?

[@eBuzzCentral]

I don't like cinnamon.

[@npaladin2000]

@@eBuzzCentral I'm not a huge fan of it either, but their XFCE spin doesn't have a maintainer right now (the previous maintainer liked the LTS kernel...I asked).

[@shalokshalom]

Same for me after about the same time

[@houssemkochat6601]

Does bluetooth work fine?

[@eBuzzCentral]

Yes, I tested with a wireless xbox controller and wireless mouse, no issues at all.

[@houssemkochat6601]

@@eBuzzCentral thanks

[@realsifocopypaste]

av linux mx edition is the best ever :)

[@guyclark2975]

Clearly you haven't discovered Endeavouros yet

[@eBuzzCentral]

I spent all of 3 days in Endeavour OS, wasn't for me.