Some of yall may have interacted with me here and there lately
I was recommended to Garuda by a friend. I am not disappointed at all. In fact, it has revived my interest in Linux. Over the past month, Iāve been toying around with Garuda, getting to know Linux all over again after abandoning it over a decade ago, when its developmental state seemed to be stagnating.
I am glad to see that direction has changed, especially with Valveās involvement.
I have elected to fissure Windows from my main rig the last week altogether.
My skills are amateurish at best when compared to the PC professionals out there, but Iām always willing to learn.
Welcome my friend, you are most welcome here, like you we all love Garuda. For me Garuda is a very special Linux distro, compared to the others i have tried.
i left Bill Gateās breadwinner, and our modern day personal data thief, after XP, but i have to agree with you, that Linux has picked up dramatically since a decade ago.
Welcome aboard! I hope you enjoy the flight . Iāve been using Garuda (the KDE-Lite flavor) for a year or more. The thing I like most about Garuda is that it lets me configure everything my way. Iāve branded my system with āWCSā for Wilcox Computer System, because Iām not a commercial operation, but simply a home user, and doing this lets me make my OS my own.
I dual-boot Windows 11 with Garuda on my desktop and primary laptop PCs, and in deference to Windowsā need for secure boot, Iāve found a great way to get Garuda to run with secure boot enabled (an app named sbctl, and a script named sbctl-batch-sign to add a build hook to sign new kernels and other needed files, on the CachyOS Wiki). While I probably wonāt need secure boot after I finally decide to drop Windows all together (assuming I ever do), I may keep using it, just to add another layer for the bad guys to get through before they can get to my system. To my way of thinking, system security should be built up in layers, like an onion. The more layers I can add to my security set-up, the safer my system will be/harder it will be for the bad guys, but enough about me.
We all start out as amateurs, including all those PC professionals you mention. I consider myself one today (an amateur). Iām glad youāre willing to learn. For me, learning is a life-long endeavor, and the more I learn, the more I discover I donāt know. When I find something new I donāt understand, I embark on what I call an adventure to learn about it. I hope you enjoy all the adventures youāll find in GNU/Linux!
Thank you! I actually made a handy guide to enable Secure Boot here after getting my Garuda setup initially in dual boot setup, sticking to Arch guidelines. They may automate the process one day as Ubuntu/Fedora already does, but that would require paying royalty fees to M$ or something to that effect. I have since wiped Windows completely, lol.
I agree with you that we all start out as sprouting n grow into professionals. System security has always been an afterthought for the consumer market until recent years. All that is changing but imo really depends on individual user-case.
