Hello all, I'm my name is Miika Suominen. I'm a 48 years old computer fossil/enthusiast.
I would even say professional, but NOT on Linux...
I had a time, about something like 15 - 20 years ago, when I took a look at Linux distros every second year. Then I lost the interest. I was mainly a gamer then and still am. Though not so much anymore.
I like tinkering more. I use more time to get an old game (or newer) to run perfectly... And then I don't play it ;D
So, I kinda like more the tinkering, than "playing".
For some reason (which I don't know why). I started to look more and more Linux community videos lately (my main feeling from the "old days", was that they're mainly toxic). And I found out, that it mainly has stayed that way...
Now, I have watched and read HOURS AND HOURS worth of Linux stuff now. And I kinda know, why the Linux community is like it is. And I get it. That's why I mainly have tried to learn things, through different things like Arch Wiki etc.
Still, I'm a novice.
But, let's get to Garuda. It's the main reason, I'm back at Linux. Saw a couple of videos and fell in love with it. Put it to my old T61 laptop, with kinda bad results...
Bought an 500GB NVME drive to my comp and installed Dragonized to it. Installed Mint to that T61... Though, now I found the post about how to put Garuda to older laptop and yes, now there are Win10 and Garuda Xfcew on it also!
It took about 24 hours and my main installation of Garuda was ruined. Because of the bug (SDDM) and actually my stupidity. But, that was an VERY good thing to teach me something about Linux and Arch.
I still have problems with T61 mainly. Can't get the "normal" Kernel to load automatically. It always starts with the LTS-version. But that's no biggie.
Mainly the main machine's Garuda Dragonized works about perfectly. I have solved almost every problem with it (but not Freesync, 2 displays and so on)...
I solved getting the Xbox One controller to work with it, as well as OC'ing my Vega64 and so on...
I find it, that I want to tinker more with Garuda than W10 novadays. And I'm almost booting more to Garuda than W10! And that's something I would have never estimated...
So, keep it up! Great work. I will support it. And I really want to be part of the community. I try to be careful, not to ask too easy question and so on
Community still being what it is
P.S. And yes, that TRULY is my real face, with Halloween mask painted by my sister. It's King Diamond paint, from the past