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And this doesn't even list all the organisational problems, such as pushing a close source office program over libreoffice, or when they fired their treasurer because they were using funds from the project without going through the proper channels, or the time they lost most of their forum archives when migrating, or the fact they have now brought down the AUR twice due to the fact that pamac keeps DDOSing it.
I cannot with any sincerity recommend Manjaro, which is a shame because I really do think Arch is a great base for a user-friendly system if it was actually run competently. I'm keeping half an eye on GarudaLinux hoping that it might fill that gap.
Notable features:
Garuda Linux is a rolling release distro based on Arch Linux which ensures always getting the latest software updates. We use only one extra repo on top of Arch Linux repos placing us very close to Arch Linux without having to install the system with CLI.
Automatic Snapshots While being a rolling release distro our goal is to ensure that your system data will always be safe. Thus we use the BTRFS filesystem and employ its feature of automatic snapshots that backups the system with each update By default we take these snapshots using Timeshift and grub-btrfs prior to every upgrade while keeping a maxmimum of 5 snapshots. With Garuda Linux you don't have to fear rolling release and bad upgrades causing problems for your system. Even if you experience some problems due to updates there is no reason to worry.
You can easily boot into the Timeshift BTRFS snapshot of your system by first selecting it from the GRUB menu and opening Timeshift after booting to restore the working system snapshot in seconds. The advantage of using BTRFS snapshots is that it takes a very small amount of space for snapshots. The process of taking snapshots and its restoration is instant.
DEs to pick from - Include the standard, KDE, gnome ect.. and - something i have not seen.
Garuda Linux Wayfire Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots.It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.
Time to Fire up VENTOY and test out some of these now.
Atau, you know, just use Linux.
Install xubuntu, install Epiphany atau ungoogled-chromium buat browsing tapi nggak berat, install Steam+Proton untuk nge-game, install nohang dan auto-cpufreq just in case, done, ggez.
(brought to you by a Garuda Linux user, not to be confused with the dead "Produk Indonesia" Garuda OS)
Garuda Linux is definitely what you are looking for:
- It's based on Arch
- The UI / theming is extremely polished
- The look & feel is the exact opposite of noob
- The most extreme editions are based on KDE - the same desktop as SteamOS 3.0
- The distro is focused on supporting gaming / proton - and has an "edition" with all of the popular gaming apps preinstalled (steam / retroarch / etc...)
- It's the new hotness of Arch distros (it'll be something else next month, but that's part of the fun)
Check it out here: https://garudalinux.org/
I suppose there is some distros tweaked for gaming like Garuda, but as far I know you can't get the same performance on Linux using Proton.
But my fear, is precisely what you described with Nvidia and other "gamer" hardware.
It's not only Nvidia, to get the fan speed of my motherboard I needed to change a boot parameter than can be insecure. After that, to control a fan with the GPU temperature on Linux wasn't trivial, since only last versions of thinkfan have this feature.
Pop_OS! packages are old, at the time I needed to build thinkfan from source. Using Fedora I had the updated package, but for some reason the symlinks for Nvidia libraries aren't equal, so I created one symlink myself to make it work.
Using Windows, all of that would be simpler and the gaming experience equal or better.
After just this week trying out https://garudalinux.org/
I'm more than happy to take the time and learning of different terms and names, and how linux installs and operates its files.
So, Yes a lot of people are. But it's not either or - It can be both A small SSD is cheap, and rebooting takes seconds, so hardly inconvenient.
You can always have a fresh win 10/11 install for games. Then do all your other things on Linux if you come across some sticking issues.
I would seriously reiterate the advice to use a live usb to help you distro hop for a bit and see what distro works best for you and your hardware. Then perhaps dual boot for a while to keep all options open and simply see where you gravitate to the most. I am at the point when I don't use my windows installation anymore on my main machine so I took the step to go all in on Linux, but it took be a couple of months.
Also, since you mentioned Kali, you might want to read this stackexchange and the linked Kali documentation. If you want something like Kali I think Debian will serve you better on an everyday basis and Kali as live usb or vm for when you actually need it, which seems to be the industry standard. Or take a look at something like Garuda Black Arch which has lots of the tools preinstalled but overall is still an everyday use distro that I am gaming on right now. Until you become professional your focus should be on everyday use rather than pentesting.
At the end of the day, if you spend too much time fighting your os instead of using it it's probably time to try something different.
Why not? Just download the live, save it to usb key and boot to it
This is explained here: https://garudalinux.org/downloads.html And you can get support with any issues you may encounter here or in the forum....
Try it, it won't hurt
Actually, I switched from manjaro due to recent controversy.
But I really love Garuda Linux. It have a great theme and even don't accept donations yet. And they released the latest edition yesterday only.
So imo, Garuda linux is worth trying.
Website: https://garudalinux.org/
"Disable fastboot and secure boot. It may not be possible to disable the latter explicity - try clearing the secure boot keys instead. Check your the manual of your device/motherboard for further info. Make sure that your device's SATA controller is set to AHCI mode in your device's setup utility. Otherwise the Linux kernel may not be able to detect your drive." Source
I don't play any of those games, but here's a quick word on distros:
Manjaro is fantastic as an intro to Arch. Unfortunately a lot of users (myself included) have had major issues with it breaking and the maintainers have been.. less than entirely mature. Others swear it's the best thing they've ever used and had no problems at all, ever. It's absolutely worth trying, at least
If you're looking into gaming specifically, I can heartily recommend SalientOS - I've been using it near exclusively for over a year and loving every moment. Unfortunately there's damned near no community around it other than the vaguely active Discord. The maintainer, Silent Robot, is super-helpful and usually responds to questions quite rapidly
Another highly fashionable option is Garuda KDE Dr460nized Gaming Edition. Just be aware early releases were mega-bloat, though that may have been resolved by now. The maintainers are super-active, passionate, heavily involved in the custom kernel scene and are named contributors to TKG and ChaoticAUR
Like another person said. You could look into Garuda Linux gaming edition. It has everything you would need. However since it’s based on arch I would suggest installing a LTS kernel for added stability.
Never hear of this UKUI. Now I know.
UKUI is a Qt-based desktop environment developed by the Kylin team.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/09/ukui-3-1-desktop-environment-changes
https://www.slant.co/topics/343/~best-linux-desktop-environments
I say go with KDE. All four here are close of resources usage. So close you really won't know the difference. GNOME and KDE have been trimming down over the years. Were consider heavier in the past. That has change now.
First of all: Garuda Linux is not the same as archlinux. And besides of that there really is no "this distro is better than the other one". It all comes down to your personal preferences, the time you are willing to spend to install and maintain your system and the package support on your chosen distribution. Just get the one you prefer the most. And if you want to try a new one you can install it in a VM like on VirtualBox first, test it and then decide.
Besides of that you can use tools like GParted to add or alter partitions on your drives which you can then use to install new systems too etc.
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Edit: And yes you could mount the drive with your games to your new system and tell steam for example to use that as your library.
Is what I personally run for similar purposes, btrfs and timeshift by default, minimum configuration necessary, great gaming support out of the box.
Very nice looking but also highly customizeable.
I personally toned it down a bit, the woddly windows and neonicons were a bit much for my taste(extremely well designed though).
Arch-based, but like I said btrfs and timeshift on by default so you always have backups of your system, in case you break something. You can easily access and boot from then through the grubscreen if you need them.
Edit: Spelling.
Oh! I will look for a. KDE Plasma distro based. Maybe this one can help? https://garudalinux.org/downloads.html It has many distros, and one of them, the first one as far as I can remember is KDE Plasma based, or something like that. It is called: Garuda KDE Dr460nized
Depends really on what customizing you want to do. If your image of customizing is just GUI-related then Pop OS is great for that. If you want to customize, or at least have a finer control of what you want downloaded and used on your system, Arch is a great choice.
As for a mix, I would suggest looking at Garuda Linux, its basically Arch with a installed and customized WM/DE, some pre-installed stuff, and with a focus on gaming. All their flavors look very nice and function nice (at least in my experience) out of the box, and is probably the best choice in terms of what you want if you're fine with some bloat.
The chinese goverment has a law in place that allows it to take any data from any chinese company. So that might be a risk factor.
>If it was true, Which another beautiful Linux distro would you recommend me to use ?
You could, but it would be marginal. Consider mastercomfig if this is the only reason you're looking to hop to Linux. If you're already on Linux, I would suggest Garuda Linux and then also installing mastercomfig.
Personally, I see marginal if no change between TF2 on my Garuda install vs my Windows install.
Try Garuda Dragonized. You have a powerful machine, so you’ll truly be able to experience and appreciate how visually appealing it is. It’s also one of the more user-friendly Arch-based distros out there.
What you're talking about has nothing to do with KDE Plasma and is more along the lines of "There will always be a .deb" (which in that case, i could recommend vanilla Arch or EndeavourOS because of the AUR, but i don't know who the end user is so that'd be dumb).
Personally, I do prefer an experience as close to the defaults as possible, because i think it's easier to "build" on top of that instead of something like... Garuda?.
Kubuntu is one of those that provides very little tweaks and a simpler experience, I agree on that.
https://garudalinux.org/index.html
Scroll to the bottom, under "Focus on Performance"
Not sure what you can do in Debian as far as the kernel goes - things are more stable there, so they take longer to be tested and take hold. You can make your own arch build for great performance, and I recommend that to someone who wants to learn, but at the same time, to get everything working together, Garuda is a really nice package.
Have a look at Garuda, I moved both my desktop and laptop over from manjaro. This is a really interesting distro, I love the btrfs snapshot feature you can select at boot.
Well, others have chimed in, but in case you still need something lighter and focused for gaming, perhaps Garuda Linux with LXQt?
LXQt is even lighter than XFCE. And Garuda Linux is a distro that is pretty aggressive with performance stuff and tailored for gaming out of the box. The drawback is that because they are aggressive, there are a lot of moving parts that a newbie might break. They do have a good system restore via grub, but it's not a failproof system.
Window Manager (everything below LXQt) is even lighter from what I understand, but I'm not sure if you could properly adjust to it as a new user.
So it's something to try if what others have suggested doesn't work for your case.
Garuda Linux might be a good first OS if you're really into gaming, there's a lot of easy to install stuff on their, they also ship with Chaotic AUR, so the official package support is vast.
Something else that's great is they allow system restore options that you can select before OS boot. If something breaks, you can easily revert to a working backup, which are created before every update.
This is probably my #1 issue with most other distros for beginners, if shit breaks, you're in for a not fun time. I have no idea why more distros do not have an easy restore feature like this that can be accessed easily without needing to actually boot into the OS.
Linux Devs, if something breaks to where someone needs a system restore, chances are they can't boot into the OS.
I know with some distros you can access the system restore from the live install media, but most people aren't going to know how to do that. And most distros don't automatically back stuff up for you, so if you didn't set up a restore point on your own, sucks to be you.
Garuda KDE Dr460nized found here: https://garudalinux.org/downloads.html Yeah, there was an issue with the PKG updater or something while I was using it, so I ended up having to use a backup image to get around that and get the hotfix update. Fortunately, backup imaging was built-in, so it was really easy to do. I just realized that it may be too new or too developmental for me to be comfortable with.
Hmm. If that's the case, I would probably just recommend not to use manjaro, maybe try garuda linux or endeavor OS (or Pop or Mint or something non-arch-based) or something. Is it a manjaro-specific issue or is it Linux.
You are! I will prove it.
Disclaimer: This is a non-permanent change that you can undo at any point by restarting your computer.
1) Get a spare USB thumb drive and go to https://garudalinux.org/ 2) "burn" the ISO onto the thumb drive 3) plug it in, restart your PC 4) hit your BIOS key and tell your computer to boot from the thumb drive 5) congrats! You're using Linux. 6) Steam comes bundled by default. Under steam settings tick the "enable proton" box and look at what % of your library works by default :)
Prior to the Steam Deck being announced I was planning on getting an Aya Neo to run Garuda Linux which would be amazing on this device. If I continue down that project though I don't think I'll be sharing it here and now there is doubt on whether I should buy one. https://garudalinux.org/
A buddy of mine has been messing with Garada recently and likes it a lot. Although he's the kind of guy that gets excited when trying something new... so it remains to be seen what kind of issues crop up. It is arch based though. And sure sounds like a pretty well put together distro. Think it might be what you are looking for.
>how can I make Ubuntu Look Exactly like Garuda Linux with the Dock
"exactly" = A lot of work. somewhat similar = some changes to various theme components.
Note: you showed a picture of Garuda Linux Dragonized, which is based on KDE Plasma Desktop. You are using Ubuntu which uses Gnome Desktop. You should look at Garuda Gnome to see what Garuda looks like with the Gnome Desktop Environment, each DE in Garuda has somewhat of a different look/feel. Here is a picture from the Garuda Website of the Gnome edition, its a bit simpler and cleaner than the Dragonized version.
The theme is "Sweet" with "Beautyline" icons.
I haven't tried Garuda so far, but before switching note that dual boot is not officially supported by Garuda, so be prepared do do extra work yourself here.
Also it's said that running Garuda inside a VM could result in a bad experience, although I don't know what might be the Deal-breaker here.
Go give a try to Garuda Linux, that’s what I use, and it’s the best for me, If you are a minimal kind of person, you can go with Garuda barebones, just Arch Linux the Garuda way, or if you want a minimal beautifully preconfigured one, you can choose it’s Dr460nized version.
Hello, I just install Garuda KDE Dr460nized (https://garudalinux.org/downloads.html) and also ST4. I also experience such issues about the global menu which may be not clickable sometimes, even though I can still use keyboard to edit files. However, it is indeed annoying when I would like to click on the settings for some plugins. Any solutions now?
I hop distos constantly on my nitro 5,, mint, Ubuntu, Arch and currently on https://garudalinux.org/ now and love it ,,, so far the only issues I’m really having is fan control, it works just seems to start sooner and at a higher RPM than before but it’s not to bad I at least know it’s working 😂
Even though its the fastest, its not the best linux distro which you can use. it is not marketed for personal usage and uses its own package manager+flatpak and their repo is not still not mature enough. It is fast but not fast enough to be a replacement for other distros with well maintained package managers and stable bases. You can also tune most distros you use to be faster(using a zen kernel , using a lightweight DE, Tweaks in the DE you use etc. ) Also clear linux is developed by intel themselves, which is a huge advantage that no other distro has.
Garuda linux does above mentioned things and its based on arch too, so it might be nice i guess?
To be honest I haven't tested anything for real but the first boot etc. All seem fine. Nor even problems with the nvidia gpu. Link to garuda linux: (not sure about kernel version and Im to lazy to turn my notebook on to check x'D
Install Linux honestly, so much better than Windows. I recommend Garuda LXQT if you have less than 8 GBs of RAM or Garuda Dragonized if you have 8 GBs or more.
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Wayland is stable, depending on the implementation you use
Think of it this way: the X server is a program that runs on your computer (and XFCE, Gnome, etc. run "on top" of it); while Wayland is a blueprint that you can use to build a Wayland compositor. Some of these compositors (like sway, wayfire, etc.) are very mature at this point, while others (like river, way-cooler, etc.) are still buggy/incomplete
If you want a distro that uses wayfire by default, you could try Garuda Linux (or any Arch-based distro because wayfire is in the Arch User Repo). If you're willing to install it as a package, it's apparently also available on Fedora
I’ve given up on this distro due to lack of updates and general lack of interest in the community, take a look at Garuda Linux, they have a great user base and support - it’s not for people newer to Linux though, they do expect you to do some research before asking questions etc. but the distro is great. It is however based on arch.
https://garudalinux.org/downloads.html
I am aware that they released an update in March (ParrotOS)
Me too!! I haven't found the link yet, but so far this is what I know:
- The icon pack is from the Garuda Linux Dr460nized
- The icon pack seems to be available for LXQT-Kwin, GNOME and XFCE
- This is the download page of the Garuda Linux distro, where the icons com from
I'd really appreciate if you were to share the link if you find it first :]
Nope sorry. For now I am running some Manjaro distro ( Mangaro XFCE works well but ) https://garudalinux.org/downloads.html dagronized edition.
With Manjaro XFCE or Garuda, once your kernel is up to date, touch screeen will work well.
As for Deepin, if you find a way to boot the installer, let me know... For now I am using Deepin on my main work desktop ( for months)
JF
Well I went to about page - https://garudalinux.org/about.html - to get information about the distro, but it's a bunch of eagle avatars with nicknames and description "linux user" for each one.
Definitely wouldn't use as I don't expect they the slightless clue about UX.
Here. I STRONGLY recommend the LXQT version for your laptop. If you do NOT like the LXQT version then at least make sure you NOT download any Gaming or Blackarch edition as well. If you tell me your RAM I can be a little more specific.
I think if you’re trying to gain more comfortability with Linux, Manjaro would be fine. It’s user friendly, fairly stable, and if you want to get into Arch eventually, it’ll get you used to some of the tools of the distro. Plus, there’s the AUR and the Arch Wiki, which are both great.
Another distro I would recommend would be Garuda Linux. It’s also Arch-based like Manjaro, but it has some extra and unique features you might like. They’re Dr460nized version is a beautiful KDE setup as well.
I’m sorry to hear that. I would expect a Lenovo to work. I hope this isn’t your first experience of Linux, I wouldn’t want you to be put off.
Have you tried asking the Garuda team? I’m sure they’d like to help.
Check out this distribution..
Garuda Linux Wayfire Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots.It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.
It's compiz-wayland :)
Just noticed Librewish is on the Garuda dev team. I appreciated his work on creating spins for manjaro (especially LXQT-Kwin). Good to see the LXQT Garuda spin has Kwin as default.