Garuda KDE Ryzen 3500 issues?

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@fecklesstech

HP 745 G6 is a really nice laptop! Brushed aluminum case, beautiful display, good audio, lovely keyboard.

but it’s HP…

@fecklesstech

Once they are returned to me I’m not going to tamper with them

No tampering at all. Just confirm the method gives a successful boot, so we can suggest to others.
Check:

How to easily create a bootable USB to install Garuda

Here is an easy way to create a bootable USB Drive, using a Linux system, to boot Garuda (and multiple other Linux distributions), with just copying the ISO file that you have downloaded from the Download page. You need an empty USB disk with at least the size of the downloaded ISOs that you want to use to multiboot. An 8 GB disk is enough, but you may use a larger size if you want. Follow this guide to prepare the USB disk. If you feel uncomfortable with the manual way, use the script (Go to …