Pleasantly surprised

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New user here!

I just have to say that using garuda has been an amazing experience and showed me that Linux has really make a leap in recent years. Distro hopping was my hobby but windows was always the OS i fall back to. But now I don’t have a reason to! Got garuda installed on my main gaming and editing PC manjaro installed on my laptop and just in case ill keep a macbook with me for classes when i get to college. I can’t believe I didn’t de-windows my life sooner!

Hope to meet you all and chat ill be on these forms for a while! Much love and thank you to the amazing devs who made quite literally my favorite Linux distro

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Thanks for the kind words and

garuda welcome 2

By the way, there is no reason not to install Garuda on a notebook. :smiley:

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Welcome to garuda linux community :slightly_smiling_face:

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Put Garuda on that MacBook, then install VMware Workstation 17.5 with Unlocker. You will then be able to use macOS 14 Soloma as a VM for mac functions while using Garuda as your core OS. Give that a shot cause it’s really cool how it works you will be even more impressed.

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Manjaro gave up on me so im using XFCE garuda working pretty well so far!

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I will look into that stuff! It does sound cool

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@Fenris Can that work on a macbook pro with the M1 chip?
I installed Garuda in a macbook pro with intel i7 but it wont recognize any drivers, I have to use external keyboard and mouse. I couldn’t find any guides of how to get it work, and I would really love to get some help with that.

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In all honesty, I haven’t tried that personally

This is what I was following, this is how I knew you could do Garuda on Mac:

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I actually did that one and it didn’t work. Mouse and keyboard drivers are missing. I had to use external ones :frowning:

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Well then, I don’t know what to tell you. Perhaps one of the forum admins can assist with this one better then I can, sorry :disappointed:

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I think, apple know how to exclude other OS on their new hardware.
Seems it will work only on old hardware, maybe check for asahi OS.

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