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.

  • kttnpunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    Garuda is easily my favorite arch based distro, nice to see ppl talking about it! Once you get used to using yay instead of apt-get and the AUR in general it’s such a better experience

    • detalferous@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

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

      • kttnpunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        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.

        • pelotron@midwest.socialOPEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

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

          • Penta@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            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 u is for upgrade, which upgrades out-of-date packages.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 In short, it upgrades all packages that are out of date.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

        • ProtonBadger@kbin.social
          1·
          8 months ago

          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?

          • kttnpunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 months 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.