My main questions would be:
Is Secure Boot supported?
Is dual booting doable, like is it possible to set up without rewriting the motherboard firmware or some other crazy stunts?
Are snaps working?
Is flatpak supported/working?
Is gaming possible on Wayland with Nvidia GPU, because apperently it is no longer an issue on most other distributions
Secure Boot is only supported if you have it enabled in the BIOS. I for one would turn it off cause it’s just a Microsoft scam.
Yes you can multi-boot
I don’t remember if Snaps are on by default or not.
Flatpak is up and running.
Most games nowadays shouldn’t give you any problem. Just do some research on the particular game and running it on nVidia under Wayland.
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Garuda Linux, like Arch Linux, is a rolling release distribution. It is continuously updated, and always provides the most recent software versions. Arch Linux and Arch-based distros can be considered some of the most “up to date” Linux distros available.
Snaps and Flatpaks work just as well as they do on Arch Linux–which is to say, you need to set them up on your own. Note that if you want to use Snaps, you will also need to set up AppArmor or you will lose the security integration they are meant to provide.
Warning:
- If AppArmor is not enabled in your system then all snaps will run in devel mode which mean they will have the same unrestricted access to your system as apps installed from Arch Linux repositories.
Note that Snaps and Flatpaks are officially not supported by Garuda Linux. Snap & Flatpack | Garuda Linux wiki
It works fine but you need to set it up yourself. Unified Extensible Firmware Interface/Secure Boot - ArchWiki. If you want to use secure boot for actual security reasons, this is probably what you want anyway. If what you actually want is a distro where you can just leave secure boot enabled without doing anything, Fedora and Ubuntu both ship with a version of shim that has been signed with Microsoft keys.
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Yes, after last year several major patches were pushed for Wayland, KDE and NVIDIA drivers; fixing the most obvious most annoying issues causing NVIDIA unplayable on Wayland. I before couldn’t use Wayland with NVIDIA. Since summer 2024 its much more better, I run Wayland only, there are still issues tho, but those are not preventing you to fully enjoy the experience.
And actually this is the power of Garuda/Arch e.g. rolling distro. You always get the newest and Arch is pretty fast with releasing new stuff, past my 2 years of usage its pretty stable and tested. Here and there is something missed and causes a regression or breaks, but Arch is again quick to fix it + you have BTRFS snapshots so you can always rollback seamlessly and just wait.
P.S. there are 2 Linux power houses for Gaming in my opinion, Garuda & Nobara. But for some reason I prefer Arch based distros on my desktop.
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