Lot of people hating on Garuda here, but I have loved it. Hopefully it goes as smoothly for you as it has for me - it's been an absolute breath of fresh air. :)
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Me too, I am using and it is great! The Garuda team do a superb work.
Probably I will start to have problems but I would like to hear yours opinions.
The only problem you probably will have is the unfamiliarity.
Steam runs flawlessly with proton (check protondb to see compability and guides to your games).
Lutris allows to install non steam games with installation scripts you get from lutris.net
Wine can be a bit tricky at times but the community is very helpful.
Try to be open regarding the applications you will now have to deal with as most propiertary applications you know from Windows won't easily work (but can be ported via wine if you really really need to)
The Software Center is your friend and gives you a huge variety of applications to download and try out.
Happy journey!
Thank you very much!
All your tips were great and I am in love with my Garuda!
I convinced my brother to move from Win10 to Fedora and he had a mostly seamless experience.
Only problems he encountered were with GTA V online play, offline worked but he could not go online, and with game modding. On Windows he used vortex mod manager which did not work for him with the Lutris install script.
I would personally go for Nobara. It's also a gaming-oriented distro but it's made by the guy that does ProtonGE and WineGE, some of the best tools for gaming.
Honestly, I wouldn't use a distro that's maintained by a single person.
I say, using an Android System that's maintained by a single person.
You know what, go ahead, Nobara looks good.
I go for the best of both and use the Nobara kernel in Garuda
wait. How?
You just have to download it from the AUR and compile it. Then Garuda makes it super easy to pick your kernel in the boot settings.
pretty cool, what are the advantages?
I can't see the results :(
@caboclo This is the link to the corresponding results: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/2207269-NE-BHZSTEAM854
Thank you very much!
If you haven't used Linux before, just know that Garuda might not be the most stable. It wasn't for me at least, I had to rescue it often. But that might have been because I didn't use/update it regularly enough.
Garuda is definitely the right choice for your use case.
I had to install a Virtual machine for playnite but now I'm gaming complete on Linux! Also remember you can have xbox gamepass on the browser
Lutris doesnt offer the same playnite functionality?
Also remember you can have xbox gamepass on the browser
Good hint! thanks!
I used garuda for about a year and a half and loved it...mostly. I use a bluetooth headset and controller for gaming and it seems like after every single update, bluetooth broke and i either had to stuggle for hours to try and fix it, or just not use it till another update. Also, a lot of multiplayer games that use anticheat won't work on linux. I just recently switch back to windows because of those hassles.
If those things aren't comcerns for you then you should love your experience! Best of luck!
Occasionally a bad package gets pushed out, part of the nature of rolling distros. What I'll give them credit for is their forums, seems to be the primary support spot and a quick search points you to recent threads on any fuck ups that occur. Someone usually figures out which package is the issue and mentions it, then you can downgrade it pretty easily.
Garuda forum is truly great!
I tried to use Garuda on Ventoy with a Nvidia 1080 and AMD CPU and it wouldn't even boot. Mint, Debian, Manjaro, Open Suse, and many others, all booted via Ventoy on my Nvidia 1080 but Garuda failed to do so. It waited 30 seconds for the GUI to start and said "well you are on your own, cya." and ditched me to a root console. Not the experience I want from my computer.