I believe in Kaizen: The Japanese Approach to Continuous Improvement
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -- what change exactly?
" You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
âMahatma Gandhi
This ideology means that change yourself before expecting others to change. Just for example, educate yourself and your family if you want world to be educated.
Save environment yourself if you want the entire world to save our precise environment.
One more similar thought is
"Charity begins at home."
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There's also "changing for the sake of changing", which can be re-inventing the wheel endlessly. A lot of that in the Linux community.
Real change needs a purpose and direction. What change do you want to bring into the world? You know it but it's not clearly stated.
Could also view it as: what are you so dissatisfied with the other distros that made you create your own? There's performance, privacy and ease but I think there's something deeper.
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Carefully.
We want to get âEasier Installationâ procedure, more âbeautifulâ OS, âbetter and easierâ GUI, easier and faster third party commonly used application installation via Chaotic-AUR, âHigher Performanceâ as well as option to switch to better battery life, and some other features that were not there in traditional GNU/ Linux operating systems.
And this is not
This is actually getting better with each update, and fixing bugs with each update.
Let me give you a very recent example.
I bought a laptop, HP Omen 15, 5800h, 3060âŠ
I booted Garuda Linux on it on 1st January, 2022. I also created a topic regarding this.
At that time, Latest released kernel was 5.15 . It was almost fine, but in that kernel, fan speed was not shown.
With kernel 5.16, fan speed can be measured now, battery is better, performance is improved.
And obviously, I like it.
This way, we keep growing and keep getting better.
I donât do open bitching about other distros, but most of them are very different from us. Some are based on older but stabilized Kernels, like LTS, some other are not much optimized etc.
I guess you get the pointâŠ
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One can know that by scrolling and quickly reading all the titles, but if we could summarize it in a sentenceâŠ
Also who is it for? More for performance laptops where you donât want to leave idle performance on the table, for tech-savvy (Arch) but perhaps new to Linux, and who want it to work optimally out-of-the-box so that they can get stuff done.
How about:
âEasy-to-install beauty and performance for the optimal out-of-the-box Arch experience.â
That line could go on the home page right under âGaruda Linuxâ.
Thereâs âeasy-to-maintainâ too; but some are saying that Garuda has the best installation process all around. Not much is said about âeasy-to-maintainâ; and few know about âgaruda-updateâ.
and the 3 core values you wonât compromise: Ease, Beauty, Performance (and Privacy).
(in business, youâd hire a branding professional and invest $10-20K to come up with a one-page summary of core values and short description)
And youâre right⊠I donât really care whether the project would drop in 5 or 15 years. For my personal needs, I could just re-install something else at that point. A large enterprise that needs long-term support will choose something else.
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About the long-term future of this distro - does it even matter that much? Most of it is running on the Arch repos, so there is not reason it couldn't keep going for YEARS afterward. If given enough time, even some of the 'handy features and helpers' could be tweaked if needed --and ost of them wouldn't need much to keep going too! Just be glad it's here now, and enjoy!
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Plus the easy of installation makes is great for new users, and allows us to discover all the good projects and settings.
With everything we learn here, and with a few years of experience; we could tweak any other distro to make it look like this, or to add back any features we're missing from some other distro.
Excellent! I also like Kebâ Moâs perspective.
I'm gonna make my world a better place
I'm gonna keep that smile on my face
I'm gonna teach myself how to understand
I'm gonna make myself a better man, yeah
Given that Kebâ Moâ saved my life, I believe him.
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I'd rather depend on people with this philosophy;
than depend on the product and vision of Satanists/Transhumanists (who can change my system in any way, shape or form at any time without my consent) and pretend that everything is fine.
Although I am not the "dark colors guy".... I pretty much admire Garuda's website!!! ( I am just saying this to get on the good side of @Naman ).
The main purpose of the website is to convey information, and in the way of the target audience of Garuda.
In my idea, Garuda is a blend of "dark colors" people, that like pretty fluff but don't like to waste computer resources on it.
Its a mix of make it as pretty as possible and as fast as possible.
That is the website ... pretty but darn fast, in execution and presenting information. That is the goal.
Now ... if the website becomes a 2GB of javascript with movies of some lady in the office drinking coffee and how all the people in the world is using Garuda, and even Musk uses Garuda at home... we would grab the pitchforks !!! ( right !! right ??? )
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Don't forget about the obligatory ads! 
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"Garuda is so cutting-edge and performant that vaccination passport biometrics are tracked by Garuda in real-time"
Oups I'll get the forum shut-down, better change topic right now.
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You are very wrong, this is still Linux. Even if the devs abandons Garuda, it will continue to exist. Arch is its core, hence the repos will just continue to be updated with newer packages. Chaotic-AUR is heaven sent for those who wish not to compile from AUR, but I can live without it.
Again, there is no force in the world that can make Linux to cease existing. It simply wonât happen due to its opensource nature.
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Given there are more than one people behind Garuda, itâs unlikely. There might be periods where staff members are quite busy with real life but thatâs not really a problem. I can just speak for myself, but Iâm not going to abandon this any time soon 
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Quite a few years back I used Netrunner Rolling which was produced by one of the largest companies in the Linux sphere. It was a customized version of Manjaro that I quite liked at the time. On a whim they dropped that version in preference of non Arch based versions. I could have converted my install to Manjaro if I wanted, but this pissed me off so much I wiped my system and installed Arch.
Red Hat did a very similar thing with their CentOS version recently, alienating many of their users expecting long term support of this offering. So, having a large company sponsoring the distro means jack squat, because you are at the mercy of whatever their board decides is in the company's best interest, (not their users). If you think having a big company backing a project is a guarantee of its longevity, you're sadly deluding yourself my friend.
Yes this is a small project, but we've taken many steps to ensure the projects future. I'd have more confidence in our small group of volunteers keeping the distro alive than some big company that only gives a damn about the bottom line.
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One more thing is that if you have a small team then you can easily make decisions and would not have to consult to a hundreds of people and faster decisions means faster response and faster response means Garuda is not bloat 
its vary active distro and who the hell will leave such a thing on the way that he made with not only skills and hard work but with heart .
The art of this distro speaks the dedication of the devs of garuda team.
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If they call Garuda bloated, more so Windows. It is bloated for the sake of being a monopoly.
In fact, I was able to cut the entire Windows 11 Professional iso to just 1.3GB for my Virtualbox install (removed Secureboot/UEFI/GPT and TPM requirements).
That was how bloated Microsoft made their OS out of the box.
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How many GB's is a standard M$ install nowadays?
I haven't installed Windows in so long I have no idea, (and would shudder to think).
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My pre installed windows 10 took 45% of 250 GB of SSD which was just bought and wasn't touched for anything and after a month it took almost 60 % of SSD but i didn't stored any media file in it 
but still it took.......
@tbg
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@Maynne can you tell me which font you are using, it looks very nice