hi und danke dir. Wollte hier nur guten Tag sagen und wegen Treiber-support nachfragen. ich bin im moment wunschlos glücklich damit! Freut mich zu hören das noch länger gehen wird. danke und schönen Abend euch allen!
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Hello everyone!
I’m Junio from Portugal!
I’m 31 years old and I’m new to Garuda but hope to stick with it!
I’m pretty Happy with Garuda, it just works!!! here’s why I say that:
I’ve made the switch from Windows to Kubuntu last year… Then I felt more adventurous and was scared of the Arch Install Process (I had to idea I could just use archinstall script) so I moved over to EndeavourOS… but then last Monday (25/11/24) Steam decided it would not open … I searched the internet for the best of my abilities, opened the logs, launched steam via the terminal to look at the errors…
It was a weird error that I tried to resolve by going back via Snapshots and downgrading packages but Alas, not solveable, I could only launch steam with the -no-cef-sandboxing flag and even then no game would launch.
So then I roamed to Arch itself, ran the archinstall, wiped my hdd, again, and now I could run steam and games … but the thing is over the space of a year, I tailored EOS to my needs and to performance… and it showed, cuz on a pretty blank Arch, games ran ok, but I was lacking some FPS and stability that I had when EOS was running steam ok! And since I am a lazy b@stard, I didn’t even think to get a list of what packages I had been running on EOS so it was up to my own memory, which admitedly, is like a faulty ram stick dipped in THC oil.
So this is when I decided, welp, let’s try Garuda!
And Garuda Delivered!
Same performance that I had, and I basically didn’t have to do a d@mned thing.
All Hail Garuda!
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Welcome to the forum 
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Hello all, István here from Hungary!
I’m a user with some Linux knowledge and some, but not a lot of, experience – I mean, I have recently acquired my Linux+ certification, but we all know theoretical knowledge does not equal experience 
. So I’m still learning a lot and there’s even more to discover.
I’ve been using various Linux distros as my daily driver for the better part of the last year (mostly only dipping back to Windows to play my GamePass games). I took note of Garuda from a post on HowToGeek, tried it in a live environmentm liked what I saw, so I installed it, and here I am.
So far, I like Garuda a lot, especially how fast and sleek it is, and, being a gamer, how Steam and Lutris work out of the box.
See y’all around! 
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Welcome to the forum too.
Happy gaming, also you @Junio
I’m more of a lurker than a poster but I’m so stoked by Garuda that I just want to say THANK YOU. I’m no Linux veteran, but I’m not a complete noob either. I was discouraged from trying Garuda by all the various posts all over the net that say it’s too much for a beginner. After having tried Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora and other distros, I feel confident saying that Garuda has been so much easier to setup the way I want it than ANY OTHER DISTRO I’ve tried. I was looking for KDE, Wayland, BTRFS, Snapper, LUKS (including /boot), and qemu/kvm. And OMG did you guys deliver all of that and more. You all are kindred spirit linux geniuses who setup Garuda out-of-the-box to work exactly how I want it. Thanks for saving me tons of time and headache. I’m looking forward to digging in to this more. How do I buy y’all coffees??
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Hello all,
I do usually post a lot in forums but just my experience so far with Garuda is so awesome I just had to say a couple of words.
I have abandoned Windows first and then Mac OS some years ago and have been on Linux, usually some flavour of Ubuntu or an Ubuntu based distro, more or less exclusively. I wanted to try an Arch based distro for some time now but always worried it might be too much for my meagre IT skills.
A couple of months into using Garuda now and this has been the smoother, more problem and tweaking free experience with a linux distro I have ever had. I have only scratched the surface so far, in terms of customization and making it my own but Garuda is now my go to distro and I am pretty sure I will be here for the long run.
Thank you for creating this awesome distro!
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I’ve been piddling with Linux variants since 1996 or so (Slackware, Red Hat and SuSE were my introductions), but have wanted to move my personal gaming machine away from M$ for years.
Finally started playing with Garuda (Arch was foreign to me, so it took some prodding), and I’m AMAZED how well Garuda Xfce runs Windows games. No reason to stay with those ■■■■ers.
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Hello to all! The name is Luke and I am new to Linux (Other than Droid & some Unix). I just recently removed windows from my Alienware A51 laptop and installed Garuda Dr460ized, and I run Linux Mint on my other Alienware laptop. Im happy to be here and have a good passion for Linux and learning Linux.
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Greetings & salutations to all!
Brief summary/info:
I’ve been desktop gaming (online mostly) since around 1996 myself, though it was windows till the recent squashing of win7 support in many things (long story there).
I did weeks of research into Linux in attempt to discover a good distro for my 12+ year old hardware at present and first tried lakka which blackscreened after install so i then tried Garuda XFCE and it’s been fantastic … i just can’t get my monitor recognized enough to increase the reso beyond 640x480… but the rest of the system is pretty amazing for a Arch distro from what i’ve learned in the last month (first time really getting in any depth with Linux).
The snapshots and assist-type apps/settings really make a huge difference; great job with this distro!
Now if ic ould just get my gtx660 ti and my mobo + AMD dual core of the same age to stop being such a pain with my newish monitor (hdmi cable not recognized; monitor is called None-1 and i’m sure there’s something i’m missing like installing / uninstalling in exact right orders and making my own package installers maybe to avoid the initial install putting the wrong nvidia-related files in (which only partially install and break things due to not having the correct software for my old hardware i believe?)
Anyway i’m an old hand at war games of all kinds. Multiplayer, team-oriented games are my stock & trade generally speaking and i’ve often been the commander or leader in the variety of games that are set up with someone being a leader benefiting the team. From Darkfall, EVE-Online & Natural Selection, to Guns of Icarus, LoL, DotA and many Battlefield-series-games; i’ve been on voice or text with the intent of helping my team win in the most efficient manner [that is still reasonably fun for us].
I’ve found this forum to be the best for Linux info, and not only because i’m trying Garuda right now! I bookmarked and read 100-some threads before i finally signed up, haha.
Glad to be here and will post my system info & issue at some point soon if/when my efforts to get my graphics issue fixed meet a total standstill (it’s close already).
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Been using Linux for some time (since 2002). Used just about every distro there is, at some point or other.
I was happy on endeavouurOS (Arch derivative), but the urge to fiddle and experiment is never far away so I thought I’d give Garuda a try.
Interesting,
Nice job.
Well polished.
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thx folks for having me im 55 and i am an old DOS man loved T/S COMPUTERS and also building them in my younger years was worked for dell win 95 came out remember plug and pray im sorry meant to say plug and play lol jk now ive built and repaired cpu for a while but i did get out of it for a while i would say aroiund 15yrs so when i took on to install linux on a laptop didnt think it would have been that hard lol but i got installed but i knew just enough that iit took a while to get it installed the only hard part was learning all the new things hell give me your 3 1/2 inch floppy and a win cd lol not that easy anymore ok folks ill shut up thx for allowing me to enjoy and learn linux and well maybe not learned much but install it still learning the O/S the onlty thing that gave me SHIT yes i put that in caps was damn KDE WALLET or KDE connect to this day i stiil have to T/S well not trouble shooting if you know the problem lol but i have to get linux to recognize my modem evbertytime i turn linux off not a problem finally i installed Garuda linux software not hardware JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TAUGHT AN OLD MAN A NEW TRICKI ENJOYED LEARNING HOW TO INSTALL YALL S O/S BUT I AM A ROOKIE TO LINUX BUT I KNOW I FOUND THE RIGHT PLACE TO LEARN
UNTIL NEXT TIME MY KNEW FRIENDS
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Hi folks, I’m new to Garuda, having been a long time user of the ArcoLinux, from the wonderful Erik Dubois, who has now stop developing the distro.
I’m using the Mokka edition and I have to say it is fantastic, very well polished. I tested it as a VM (quickemu qemu/kvm) on a gen 4 8GB ram dell laptop running arcolinux . I though it would be slow with all the fancy KDE effects, but not so. Even on that old limited laptop, it performed very well. So I installed for real on the same laptop. I was amazed to find how well it performed running VMs using quickemu as above. I was surprised my limited memory handled that with ease. I noticed zram swap being ‘well’ used, looked at vm.swappiness, expecting it to be set low, but is was high at 133! At first I though that was a problem, but think it’s set high to make use of compressed zram swap. An amazing distro.
I tried the Kde Lite version and as declared, it’s a little lite on the quality of life features - had to install snapper octopi etc, but sometimes I prefer the stock KDE. I’ve tried doing this in Mokka with limited success, by applying the Breeze Dark Theme.
Best out-of-the-box distro I’ve found so far. Love it.
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Hello all and thank you in advance. I am a 66 old retired German trying to get away from Windows rather than going on to Windows11. From what I heard Linux is a much safer operating system and since I use my pc mainly for gaming I had a look at the Garuda website and got the impression that this is a very helpful and also humorous community.
I have some experience regarding humour but when it comes to Linux I am an absolute beginner who knows almost nothing.
Btw I chose to use my nickname JeanDupleix in case somebody here recognizes me from UWO (uncharted waters online) or Steam where I try to help if I can.
I am fairly fluent in English but when it comes to abbreviations I often ask to avoid confusions. 
)
Special thanks to Nico who helped me registering.
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Always nice to see people with lots of life experience switching to Linux. It’s so encouraging that older users have no problem transitioning from Windows to Garuda Linux. Both @SGS and myself, are on the older end of the spectrum, so it’s always nice to have more mature members along for company.
Welcome to the Garuda community @JeanDupleix.
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Thank you for the warm welcome and btw thanks to wikipedia where I learned about the existence of Garuda Linux.
I managed to install mokka (due to silly mistakes in my part in 4th go) and briefly felt proud about it. Then it occurred to me that the people who really can be proud about their achievement is all of you, the Garuda Team…and in a wider sense all those Linux developers on whose work you built Garuda.
A very big thank you all.
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