Have fun in the forum, make yourself at home, but don't act like it 
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HI, I never thought i'd make the transition, especially at 50+, but, well here i am. Names Darren, QLD Australia. so i have been "looking" at Linux from my Windows (pun intended) for a long time. I remember i dabbled with Mint, back when i had an Nvidia card and to be far, i liked mint, i think it was like version 13 or something so early days. But back then i remember having one heck of a time with drivers so i kinda just fell back into what i knew and went onto Windows 7 when it became a thing, thankfully skipping Vista .
But recently the bug drew me back and my curiosity, i really love watching a you tuber called ETA prime, and he does a lot of videos on emulation. So he covers a good portion of Linux as well. This made me curious, had it changed for the better?
Armed with my trust VMware i started to DL and run a few in VM
Debian 11
KDE Neon
Ubuntu
Mint
Garuda
POPos
Elementary
Deepin
It was then i started to research what i thought i needed from my Distro, Gnome, Xfce, KDE. Gaming, good support for the hardware, i started to quickly rule out a few and went back to others, and then decided on POPos, i did the install, broke my Windows installer and got myself in a right ol mess of trouble. I knew i could dual boot i did it back in the day and i needed a solution, i went back to Garuda and go the Draganized KDE edition, i needed this to work with my Ryzen and RT6600XT and to hopefully fix my now ruined boot sector.
I reformatted the POP drive from inside windows and went hell for leather on the Garuda install, when prompted i rebooted the PC............................FIXED i now have ( i assume it's GRUB) with a little page asking me if i want to load windows or Garuda.
So now Garuda is the main, finally installed on real hardware, i have been back into Windows once in 2 weeks and that was just to make sure the boot loader was actually working. BTW it;s Windows 11.
I won't pretend i know what i am doing, because i don't and Arch is different to Debain, but i am willing to learn, i have already installed YaY and i am slowing changing my youtube viewing habits to Linux instructional videos.
I am also happy to say Steam works great, so does Lutris and i have tried Epic Games and have Borderlands, Borderlands 3 and Call Of Duty WW2 all working.
I love he fact Steam supports more and more games locally and that the previous issue i had all those years ago with drivers is resolved.
So in the end, Thank you Garuda Team and the wider community, personally i like it, i have learnt enough to get Latte set up, installed a few games, downloaded some software i needed and now all i need to do is learn a little more about Bash and the power it yeilds and in time i to hopefully can call myself a converted windows user.
Sorry about the long read, if you made it this far, thanks.
See you all soon in the forums.
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Mint Cinnamon was not so bad
But dual boot and VM, Garuda advises against.
If it works for you without problems then I'm glad, but if you have problems with it, please let us know if it was installed in a VM/dual boot.
BTW, if you type yay, it is an alias in fish for paru , so no install necessary.
# Replace yay with paru
[ ! -x /usr/bin/yay ] && [ -x /usr/bin/paru ] && alias yay='paru'
At least
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Hello! I just wanted to say thanks for making Garuda! I have tried a few other distros, but I have found my home with Garuda.
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Nice to read, and
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Welcome soldier.
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My name is Carlos Solís, been using Garuda for about six months now, and before that I've been using other Arch-based distros like EndeavourOS and Antergos.
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Welcome to the Garuda community Carlos. 
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I am Saiviouss, I am curious about the GNU/Linux world, always have been. I have dabbled in Linux Mint in the past but primarily have used Windows since Windows ME/XP days, alot of gaming back then(primarily MMORPG based). I did a few intro courses for Linux(self taught using free online courses) I finally got brave a few months ago and was determined to install Arch from CLI from scratch(at the time i didn't know about the new script! ) not because it was easy but because if i was going to learn Linux might as well be full throttle and bleeding! It was a 6 hour long endeavor, but boy I learned alot about Linux! After I successfully was able to install Arch and learned more basic and more complex tasks(improved CLI usage, basic terminology, basic linux structure etc...) I moved on to the "Distro hopping phase-viral phase" and went ham on a few distros keeping in mind i was doing all of these installs on bare metal( I like risk and adventure!) installed Manjaro- wasnt my thing, Installed Ubuntu- not my taste, Installed Arch-- wait all of these are relatively the same with some parts moved around and added tweaks... where was I gunna go that would satisfy my crave for Ricing out of the box? A friend told me about Garuda.. Instantly fell in love, Nuked all of my OS installs installed Garuda as my Main OS, sideloaded Windows 10( yes-dualboot) for work reasons. I figured out that all I had to do was make sure Garuda's GRUB stayed(booted in BIOS loaded Garuda did an os-probe and grub-update and it is good to go. I look forward to playing around, erm i mean working with Garuda more! It is well built and looks like its going to be around for quite awhile. Cheers! ~Saiviouss
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A post was split to a new topic: I don't know how the feature is called 
Yeah Same for me!! 
And today im 100% detoxed from Windows 
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Hello everyone. I have been an avid Linux user for about 10yrs and love to distro hop. I have 24 drives, each with a separate distro installed. Some are Arch based, some Debian, two Slackware & one Gentoo.
I would just like to say that of all the Arch based distro's that I have tried, I like Garuda the best.
It is now my "daily driver".
Keep up the great work!
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Welcome to the Garuda community.
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Hi everyone, my name's Mankybus. I'm not new to using Garuda but I am new to the community. I still consider myself a Linux noob as I tend to just set things up and then leave everything alone when I'm satisfied, but I'm doing my best to learn at my own pace Mainly using Linux for gaming purposes, life is certainly good on that front, for the most part
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I love Garuda! it is rather enjoyable and stylish. Just really have issue with Conki. It is unmoveable and will never do as I wish. I wish I never clicked the Conky button in the Garuda set up because it was perfect before I did that. Otherwise If I don't need a desktop Garuda is awesome! I will recommend it to my associates.
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Conky has what 
, anyway have fun here and
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Watch out for that Conky.
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I don't think I've introduced myself, been using Garuda on one device or another for...a couple years.
Been using Linux since 2003, first couple of distros were Mandrake 10 and Fedora Core . Of course along the way used Gentoo, Arch, some BSDs and Debian. I'm not "in the business", I'm just a desktop computer enthusiast, self taught...still learning. I like Garuda a lot, and I like this forum.
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