Just in case anyone else comes across this; after a fresh install on booting up past grub I had this message 'garuda gnome stuck at starting version 246.3-1-arch' I resolved it by hitting F2 updating then installing GDM instead of GDM-prime.
Everything is working ace now, thanks for an excellent distribution.
Dave H
Dell E7440
PU: Dual Core Intel Core i7-4600U (-MT MCP-)
speed/min/max: 2364/800/3300 MHz Kernel: 5.8.8-zen1-1-zen x86_64 Up: 35m
Mem: 2276.9/7863.5 MiB (29.0%) Storage: 225.92 GiB (14.7% used) Procs: 283
Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.1.06