Garuda Linux "Golden Eagle" iso refresh (201022)

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Hey guys,
Its time for another iso refresh! A few nice changes are being shipped such as more BTRFS subvolumes or visual enhancements along with major version upgrades for KDE Plasma and Linux-zen 5.9.1 :slight_smile:
Also the GNOME editions should now boot as expected.

The changelog is as follows:

  • All editions:
    • Added back guest user support via Calamares postconfig (no userid issues)
    • Updated Calamares slideshow to keep up with changes
    • Calamares will now create @ @srv @cache @log @root @home @tmp BTRFS subvolumes, snapshots are configured for this layout
    • Nohang now also checks ZRAM values to determine low memory situations
    • Added profile-sync-daemon which moves browser profiles to RAM at startup which increases performance & SSD lifetime
    • Added memavaild & prelockd to further enhance OOM situations
  • GNOME:
    • Added back extensions:
      • Added eyecandy (coverflow alt+tab & transparent shell extensions)
      • Added auto-dimming of screen if on battery
      • Move tweaks to system menu
      • Added back mutter-performance, gnome-shell-performance, nautilus-typeahead (updated)
    • Replaced GDM with LightDM & i3lock as GDM has driver issues resulting in neverending boot(will switch back once issues are gone)
  • i3wm:
    • Added blur & rounded corners
  • Wayfire:
    • Added Waybar
  • BSPWM:
    • Enabled tap to click by default
  • Barebones (KDE/GNOME)
    • Now uses LTS kernel by default
  • Garuda-zsh-config:
    • Removed IP from p10k theme
  • Garuda-browser-settings:
    • Added some more privacy defaults
    • FF83+ native HTTPS only feature activated by default

Notable version updates of included software:

  • Linux-zen 5.9.1
  • Plasma 5.20
  • Firefox 82

And finally, the downloads can be found at the website, updated in time! :grin:
Upload to Sourceforge & OSDN is still in progress.

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Are flatpak subvolumes also created?

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I'm very curious what privacy tweaks does Garuda make to firefox? @dr460nf1r3

Will give the new iso a try when it's up on something that downloads fast enough :wink:

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Some are taken from the Archwiki page of Firefox, most of them are from Privacytools.io though. They consist of about:config values.
If you want to know which ones are used exactly, the distribution.ini is on GitLab :slight_smile:

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boom.... time for a full system upgrade.... @librewish @SGS is it okay to dual boot garuda with windows as i have moved all my editimg stuffs to windows.... i record my videos in linux and edit them in windows....

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Just curious ...do we have to do perform full re-install or take advantage of upgrade to ensure proper filesystems and new features are utilized?

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If you want to get the new subvolume layout a reinstall will be needed. There are ways to do it without but I find them to be rather complicated :sweat_smile:
System settings such as memlockd for example will be updated by pacman and user / theming can be applied by copying the contents of /etc/skel to ~/ or creating a new user profile

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I do not use Win so I can’t help, keep backup files on USB … to be on secure side :slight_smile:

What do you use in win for edit videos that is missing in arch linux?

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Not one iso is working.i tried everyone

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It work here, I tested only GNOME lite on old AMD PC

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adobe primere pro.... actually the thing is for the last few edits im getting worried about rendering time... earlier a 10 min video in 1080p rendering used to take max 20 min in kdenlive/shotcut .... bit now it is taking more then 45min... sometimes more than an hour.... so just to test this i have started editing in premere pro to check if everything is ok....

moreover i couldn't use DRI_PRIME OPTION as my system hangs... but DRI_PRIME works fine in ubuntu..... i dnt know what is the issue here

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I see that the Barebones edition references using the LTS Kernel. Is that LTS Kernel also an option in the other ISOs, or just the Barebones edition? Thank you!

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You can personally replace zen with lts. But we are sorry that we can’t provide that much iso. :sweat_smile:

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so the new install screen I have one piece of feedback it says using virtual machine is not recommended I would suggest this to be changed to installing on a virtual machine instead of using now it sounds like using a virtual machine on Garuda is a bad idea instead of using Garuda on a virtual machine.

for the rest the pictures being incorrectly resized seems to be fixed so good job :+1:

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8 posts were split to a new topic: GNOME is broken

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The reason this is on the website is Garuda uses many optimizations that are only of benifit on a system installed to bare metal. Virtualization may be a good way to get a feel for most distro’s but most distros do not use zram (and other advanced features we use) out of the box.

This can lead to a very poor experience in some cases when run in a VM. The distro works best when installed to bare metal and that is why it is stated up front it is not recommended to be used in a virtual environment.

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Ok, I’m probably dense, but I am freshly updated and I created a new user to check out these mythical rounded corners. I didn’t see anything. What am I missing?
Oh, unless you replaced the i3 package in the new ISO with the rounded corners git?

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Make sure to have picom-ibhagwan-git installed as its the part responsible for corners :point_up:

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First world problems, sheesh. :smiley:

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