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Anyone have Garuda experience? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been gaming on Kubuntu for over 2 years now but recently have been getting interested in Garuda. I've booted into the live Dragonized Gaming iso and was really impressed with the out of the box gaming-centric setup.

I've also been looking for more reasons to switch away from Ubuntu, and have been hit with the EOL countdown for plasma in 23.04, so the time is right for a distro hop. With the latest Garuda release they added an official Hyprland variant which looks really cool too.

Does anyone use Garuda? What are your impressions/thoughts/experiences? What should I expect from switching to an Arch base? Same questions for Hyprland too.

I have 16 gigs of ram, an Intel i7 something and an nVidia 2080.

Edit: I booted into the Hyprland live iso last night and I must say, Hyprland is cool af. Really a breath of fresh air and very intuitive. I'm going to run with the install this weekend.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I can't speak for Garuda, but if its Arch based I'd imagine it'd be pretty smooth. Gaming on Arch was like a few button clicks to enable proton in my laptop and thats it. I think theres a steam package on the AUR, idk if Garuda can use arch user repository I've never looked at it. I'd say go for it, especially if you backup your current setup.