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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] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does yay work? Is the workout similar to apt? Update, upgrade, and install commands?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

To search the AUR and add a program:

yay (desired package) You'll see multiple choices most likely, pick one and it's pretty self-explanatory from there.

To remove program: yay -R (program)

system update/update all packages: yay -Syu

There are a few different package management tools too like Octopi which let you directly browse the AUR by category in a GUI but I think that's pm the basics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do the -Syu arguments mean? I associate them with the Arch meme of "go ahead and break my system without prompting me first."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

S is for sync, which installs packages from the repositories. u is for upgrade, which upgrades out-of-date packages. y causes pacman to refresh the package databases. In short, it upgrades all packages that are out of date. It's a very standard command and not dangerous lol. Btw, with yay just typing in "yay" without -Syu does the same thing, which is convenient

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

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cool! Thanks for the reply!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With regards to Arch based distros: Do you still need to read Arch news to spot potentially breaking updates and know how to diff pacsave/pacnew, etc. or have Garuda found a way to manage these things?

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

It's probably wise to check the forums regularly, I had to reinstall the entire OS once (arguably because of NVIDIA) but on more than one occasion it's stopped a update for me because packages were in conflict. So it's nice that there's some foresight on their part.