I've said it before. Garuda makes me feel like a group of my friends got together, built a high-powered sports car of a distribution, then invited me along for the ride.
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I've done my part helping newbs who knew less than I did. That's rewarding enough.
There should be criticism and it should be taken into account, instead of taking a defensive stance or denying the criticism.I know it's frustrating to have to deal with all the same questions over and over again, but that's just what you have to deal with as a moderator or in any assistive role. I'm in a such position in my work. Just press that reset button in your mind and help or direct to the thread with the solution. Like many do. Just like a strand of shitty code, you want to weed out the little bad stuff.
Your very helpful, everyone respect you and no one would ever pick on you. 
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I see you are a fan of hyperbole, too. 
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I started with Garuda because It has a simple installer.
I need a distro with btrfrs on crypt HD.
(btrfs will support also crypt)
I wanted also to try BTRFS.
I am happy.
Garuda Community is OK, too!
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Thanks to all your feedback, we got a whopping 5 new reviews on DistroWatch since creating this thread to even out the scores!!
(only 14 clicks total on the Distrowatch link?)
No account is required to leave reviews btw.
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I was the biggest fan of this OS for a while until I reinstalled on a machine for a cpu upgrade just in case.
What I like/dislike personally from my original install before upgrade:
-Has all the libraries etc I need to run games or even less known applications that Manjaro could not run. As a noob this was great. To summarise a lot of stuff preinstalled to make life easy.
-Looks really awesome
-Setup assistant is great for first install and allows u to get all the apps u need.
-The installer had colour scheme issues that made it difficult to read when checking the summary of how it would install on the drive selected the fist time.
So what happened after?
When I switched hardware over and downloaded a fresh dragonised gaming ISO from garuda whilst following the instructions it did not want to boot with propitiatory drivers. Eventually I had to boot with open drivers and get around it. Even once I managed get nvidia dkms I had an issue with a game that was stopping me from installing a dependency needed to open steam. I do not remember from the top of my head. It does seem that the ISO got worse from when I first installed though. It may have been November I had the original ISO I liked and Feb it got worse or did not work on my new system.
Strangely my friend on a different platform I recommended the distro to after a good experience had the same problem just before I got my new platform with the open source driver requirement.
Sorry if my English is not the best, but I think this clearly shows how the install could be difficult for someone with little experience of arch and linux or how it could be a hassle in this instance. I am someone that has only just got into linux gaming.
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If you change hardware, then you must expect changes appropriate to the hardware you choose.
No distribution, Linux or otherwise, is responsible for your hardware choices, your research, or lack thereof.
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Honestly, I love it.
Comes with a bit of bloat, but this bloat is easilly removed.
The Wiki, and the Guides are top notch.
Out of box, all of the GUI setup / Maintiance is just plain easy.
I have had a completly stable experience.
Wont be looking at any other distros for a long while.
Dragonized (Non-Gaming)
I use for gaming.
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Yes I did not research.
I swapped my r9 3900x to i7 12700k and a motherboard change ofc due to new platform so there was no gpu change if that makes any difference.
As a new user I did not expect this change from allowing me to select propitiatory drivers on a fresh install and not sure if a cpu and motherboard swap should change that or not. It is feedback nevertheless as there is no error or easy way for a user expecting an easy to use distro to figure it out. I managed to figure out the problem, but I had used other distros before this.
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Relatable, I wonder where the issues actually came from 
I know that nVidia can be a pain in the a$$ on Linux and we all know it is nVidia's fault but on the CPU side I never had any issues with ANY distro so far. 
AMD CPU's with integrated graphics can fail to install without special boot params.
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oh, I didn't knew that.
Hmm just my mother uses an APU. But never had trouble with it.
She uses Gentoo tho...
I'd give Garuda a 8.5 or perhaps even a 9. I'm using the Gnome edition for work and Cinnamon for private use. Every once in a while stuff breaks, but nothing serious. I was overwhelmed by the KDE edition when I tried it, but with all these flavours it's hard not to find anything of your liking. The only possible drawback is this: I would not recommend it to inexperienced linux users, whereas in some cases I might consider recommending Mint. But as long as you know what you're doing, Garuda is IMO the best option out there.
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To keep it short, yes. I'm very happy and I would rate my experience 9 out of 10.
I've been distro hopping for last 3 years continuously on my slave drive (my master drive has the mainline Arch with Plasma) and taking in consider that I'm looking for a distro that is as customizable as Arch, also with a rich package manager repository and pre-configured and maintained properly with in mind of a home user that uses web browser, more than handful of programs, plays video games, likes eye-candy, wants to use "new" linux technology like btrfs and zram, Garuda is easily the best of them all.
The fact that Garuda has GUI programs that offers you so many things that you need to do regarding maintaining your system, changing audio server, virtualization, firewall, printer, changing shell, dns, power/performance tweaks and so on and so on.. and not only that, but also gaming programs, not to forget the post-installation wizard, all of that, is massive. I have never seen a distribution that has so many tweaks that you can toggle in an easy accessible and user-friendly GUI.
But you can do that all on your own in mainline Arch, right?
Alright, go ahead and ask a rookie Linux user what are gstreamer, icd loaders, mesa layers, and other packages that most of the Arch linux distros do not include in their builds. We need those obviously.
This is where Garuda shines, it comes with pre-installed necessary packages for a day-to-day use.
Arch Linux can be such a hassle to build it yourself to the point where you can say that you have a fully functional operating system because you need to learn what packages and dependencies you need without knowing that you need them.
Regarding toxic comments towards Garuda; it's bloated, it breaks. Well I've replaced Garuda Dr460nized with main Arch on my master drive a year or so ago, and I've never experienced any crashes, and all of that "bloat" I want. There's barebone version for those that want to install the "bloat" themselves, or you can just use a command "pacman -R" and switch to default Plasma theme.
Linux community is very toxic thus why I stay away from it, it doesn't mean that what Garuda team is doing is wasting time, all of you are very much appreciated with your work, all of the changes that you make, from small as changing/configuring search engine in FireDragon to applying hotfixes caused by a kernel issue (I'm referring to btrfs autodefrag defect that has occurred recently).
Well I wanted to make it short, but I wanted to express myself properly.
Garuda is not for everyone, just like Fedora is not for everyone, or any other distro. But it's perfect for people that find it fit for themselves. Hands down the best Arch Linux distro if you ask me.
Much love from Jack!
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Thank you for the compliments 
and
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That’s amazing - I needed to change my audio server and was tempted to get to the terminal but one check on the Garuda Helper was enough.
Greetz o/
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I'm happy with Pipewire and JamesDSP regarding gaming and recording occasionally, here's a little cheeky screenshot of happy Garuda gamer at this fine tuesday night
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Good idea - lemme add some KCD example (All settings on ULTRA + HD textures at 1080p). Me sitting in Prybislawitz (DLC for your own town in the game). Runs smooth and doesn't even fully load the GPU. (Using 60fps vsync). But under win10pro it always was on 99% with same vsync activated...
Garuda does fine 
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Check the Screenshots of Garuda Linux if you like to post garuda screens.
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