I tend to distro hop quite a bit but over the past year I keep finding myself gravitating back to Garuda. Jumped through a few distros recently, CachyOS, Fedora, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (would have stayed on Tumbleweed but I was having pipewire problems that I couldn’t figure out how to fix). And so, I jumped back to Garuda Gnome

Garuda gets the most press for the UI design but that isn’t what keeps me coming back. I love the system tools, easy kernel management, preset snapper, the other tools.

Garuda and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed are only two that really give me everything I personally want out of the box.

  • rodneyck
    3•2 years ago

    The tools/GUI is what keeps me on Garuda, especially if you are a gamer. I use the KDE Dr460nized gamers version, minus the iridescent purple Garuda theme.

    The only knock I will give Garuda is that they stubbornly stick to ONLY BTRFS file system and Snapper for backup. You can’t even partition with the installer and choose something else. I had to do a Frankenstein system via installing Arch basic with ext4/Timemachine and then add the Garuda repos to bring in all the tools. It works and I get what I want re the file system/backup. Great distro otherwise.

    • @EvralaOP
      2•2 years ago

      Come KDE 6.0 I’m probably going to jump back onto the Dragonized version. I really like KDE, but gnome simply has better touch pad gestures. It looks like Plasma 6.0 will bring that into parity with Gnome.