Hyprland and Nvida GPU

The short answer is no, you can look for change-logs of different ISO’s meticulously compiled and maintained by nico aka dr460f1r3 but I believe that’s not what you are looking for.

I will try to compile it down as much as I can for you. Someone please point out any erroneous statements I might make here.

All garuda editions have the same helpful garuda GUI apps that make workflow easy (eg, garuda assistant, gamer, boot options, etc…). The only difference with the gaming edition is that it has a lot of stuff like wine, launchers etc preinstalled. This is not necessarily a good thing though as evidenced here some packages were actually blocking people from booting into the live ISO environment. Critical bug: Gaming edition installer has boot-blocking package conflict

The difference between the different garuda editions boils down to the window managers that they are using.

i3, Sway, and hyprland are tiling window managers and each meant to successively replace the other.

From sway’s website

Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. It works with your existing i3 configuration and supports most of i3’s features, plus a few extras.

From what I have read online on some reddit thread a while ago. It seems hyprland was developed as a sort of spiritual successor to sway since sway as a project achieved what it set out to do, its as good as it will ever get. Thus it’s hyprland’s job to expand more on that. Hyprland has got almost everything sway has.

Ah found the reddit thread I was talking about Reddit - Dive into anything

Similarly KDE, gnome, XFCE and LXqT are different from each other. This is what I understand about these wm’s from surfing around the community so you can look these up individually to know more as well,

KDE = has a lot of apps, bloat~y for some but overall has almost everything a regular user might want out of his desktop plus highly customizable. Other than this the apps developed by team KDE are not locked down by platform and can be accessible anywhere. So if you are a part of KDE ecosystem that means if you change your system to GNOME or M$ someday you can still use your fav apps there.

GNOME = I am not sure about this one but basically less bloat~y but very locked down. Customizing gnome is a mess and very hard thing to do. On top of that devs don’t care about plugin support for the customizations that you have. So every new gnome release means almost all your plugins and themes break.

Xfce = very light weight, mostly used by systems with very limited resources or old hardware.

I am in dark about Lxqt so please look it up.

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