Hi there,
just a little Info about me to introduce myself.
I am a father of three living in the west of Germany in the region which is commonly called the Ruhrpott. I use Linux on Servers for around 20 years. When i went to university i bought myself a MacBook which was quite a relief compared to the Windows Laptops at the times (especially when it comes to Hibernation/Wakeup). Linux wasnt really useable an Laptops incl. Wifi at that time.
5 years ago i switch from the Macbook to a Linux Laptop. Apple Hardware got more expensive from year to year but was lacking innovation getting more and more not repairable.
So i got myself a Lenovo L14 Gen1 AMD and equipped it with Manjaro Linux which i still use today.
The last Computer in our home which was still running Windows was our family Gaming PC. A Ryzen 5 3600 with 24GB of RAM and a NVidia Geforce 3060 (not the best choice of my life) which is connected to our 55" TV.
With the EOL of Win 10 on the horizon i decided to switch to Linux. After a bit of researching on the fediverse Nobara seemed to be a good choice, but beeing honest: it was not.
Install took me several hours figuring out the the Nvidia image was not the right image for my PC.
After the install there were some quirks where you needed to run commands with sudo which are in the startmenu to get things running especially the Nvidia driver install. Noobs would have given up there.
Every Update was quirky, leading to thefact that i cant update the system anymore. Support is only available via Discord, i service i hate and which is a blackhole for information.
Nevertheless they told me best would be to reinstall the system because of an interrupted update which lead to over 500 duplicate packages.
That felt quite like Windows XP to me. To be honest trying to make a standard Fedora 42 Rolling Release doesnt seem a good idea to me.
So i search again and found Garuda. It is based on Arch, just like my Manjaro install and you have a nice support forum. Something where Information is conserved and could be searched.
So will make my way and install Garuda on my Gaming PC in the next couple of days. I am not quite sure which flavor, but because i also use KDE on my Laptop it might be that.
I am really asking myself why open source projects use Discord for support. For me it really is a complete black hole where throw in your expertise which is not searchable etc. Than people have to register to that US company if they want support, i dont think that is a good way for Open Source.
Nevertheless thanks for providing Garuda an this forum.