I have Garuda and love it. Big things to note: my monitors and it don’t get along great, updates are frequent and can be weird, and learn to use the chaotic aur
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Garuda is easily my favorite arch based distro, nice to see ppl talking about it! Once you get used to using yay instead of apt-get and the AUR in general it's such a better experience
How does yay work? Is the workout similar to apt? Update, upgrade, and install commands?
To search the AUR and add a program:
yay (desired package) You'll see multiple choices most likely, pick one and it's pretty self-explanatory from there.
To remove program: yay -R (program)
system update/update all packages: yay -Syu
There are a few different package management tools too like Octopi which let you directly browse the AUR by category in a GUI but I think that's pm the basics.
Cool! Thanks for the reply!
What do the -Syu arguments mean? I associate them with the Arch meme of "go ahead and break my system without prompting me first."
With regards to Arch based distros: Do you still need to read Arch news to spot potentially breaking updates and know how to diff pacsave/pacnew, etc. or have Garuda found a way to manage these things?
It's probably wise to check the forums regularly, I had to reinstall the entire OS once (arguably because of NVIDIA) but on more than one occasion it's stopped a update for me because packages were in conflict. So it's nice that there's some foresight on their part.
I can't speak for Garuda, but if its Arch based I'd imagine it'd be pretty smooth. Gaming on Arch was like a few button clicks to enable proton in my laptop and thats it. I think theres a steam package on the AUR, idk if Garuda can use arch user repository I've never looked at it. I'd say go for it, especially if you backup your current setup.
I'm currently using Garuda! I love the arch features (rolling release, AUR, etc) and love the game integration tools: 1 click to install nvidia drivers, wine w/winetricks, retroarch, and a bunch more.
However sometimes I observe some kind of stuttering during games. I have a 3070Ti and that kind of stuff shouldn't be happening on 5+ year old games.
I would still recommend it as a lot more people seems to be running it without issues, but idk, I guess no system is perfect.
Garuda was the first Linux distro I was using as a daily driver. To me it was working nice out of the box with a Nvidia GPU and It was beginner friendly to me. I have since switched to Arch now, but yeah. Give it a go
It's great! You can expect updates that don't take literal years, but you will need to maintain your system a bit more (Garuda provides utilities to make it easier).
What are some examples of the additional maintenance you've had to do?
Simple stuff like managing some dependency issues (like when packages get renamed), actually knowing how to use the command line (you don't need to learn awk, grep, and sed just yet), and knowing how your bootloader wants to be treated.
You'll get it as time passes, but Garuda assists in most of these things.
Thanks!
I used it for a while on my laptop and I like that it comes with the BTFRS snapshots by default. I used the KDE Lite version I think it's called.