Hey DistroTube, thanks for that great review, appreciate it! You got me started on fish lately so it had to be included in this version.. and btw, missing applications can easily be installed via the setup assistant :D
You clearly have great taste Mate! Looks exactly like my Manjaro install. I think I'm gonna hose it & install yours coz I was really thinking of doing a clean install with better snapshotting capabilities. This may have saved me a lot of time...
Is there any way of installing your customizations on top of Garuda KDE Ultimate? Or is it easier to use your Lite edition and install the missing stuff from Gaming Center etc.?
Replacing the KDE settings package with garuda-dr460nized-settings + applying /etc/skel & installing fish + its config package should work fine Also compare packagelists found on the download page to get an idea of package differences
This distro is made by final year graduation student from india who lives in my neighbourhood. The distro is heavily inspired by Manjaro and arco linux. Garuda means Eagle in India and hence the name of distro. Actually dev made this distro for hi personal use and later made a standalone distribution.
@@IndellableHatesHandles no they're not. If someone likes the content of the page, they should be able to allow that. The internet should be a pull system for the user, not a push
@@IndellableHatesHandles ads are immoral to the audience. They are tracking, a waste of time and date, annoying, hold more information than should exists, and collect a profile without consent. I support developers too, not by ads though
@@duckmeat4674 Most devs wouldn't develop without ad revenue, so ads run the internet.. I agree that they shouldn't track but the problem isn't the concept, it's the implementation.
this distro looks amazing, i don't think you noticed this, but the desktop background blurs when you are focused on an application. this distro is so beautiful
Manjaro KDE has the same effect, though not enabled by default. Too bad cause it's great. For those wondering: System settings -> Workspace -> Workspace behaviour -> Desktop effects -> Focus -> Dim inactive.
You can do that with any KDE Plasma Desktop. I loved running the live usb Garuda, but it wouldn't LVM encrypt on installation and I can't have that. So I dressed up my Parrotsec partition to look like Garuda, use the Plasma theme called Sweet, the Latte dock, and manually switch over a few icons that don't automatically use the theme icons. Inactive blur can be used on your wallpaper, and other things like using .webm or .gif video loops instead of pics.
*I have not watched the entire video so im not sure where this happened* I think you might be thinking of this wrongly. They probably arent talking about the fact that a PC with 8GB of ram will be more responsive than a PC with 4GB of ram. Its more about how much ram is being used by the pc itself out of the available ram. If there is high ram usage even when you are not really doing anything and your pc works just fine then that could mean your OS has allocated some ram so it doesnt have to keep reallocating and stuff and this can improve performance (Especially when you have a lot of things running). This matches with the principle "Unused ram is wasted ram". That wasted ram could be used to increase responsiveness.
@Saintbow It holds programs and other stuff longer in RAM (resulting in higher RAM utilization) because reading from RAM is so much faster than reading from disk
Seems like some of the main devs of this distro are Indian and the name Garuda gives it away. Garuda is a mythical creature in Hindu (also Buddhist and Jain - not sure) Mythology which takes the form of a giant eagle and is a mount for a god named Vishnu. Btw, good video and glad the algorithm brought me here. Earned a sub.
Garuda is a very nice distro. I used Manjaro for a long time but eventually went back to vanilla Arch until I found Garuda. Now all my machines run Garuda
A bunch of wanabees trying to look kool but failing miserably. Fish in the title doesn't tell its the default shell. Start a terminal (with bash), launch fish (or even if you put fish in the .bashrc) and type in neofetch. It will still tell you default is bash. New born noobs trying hard, but hilarious fail.
About the blurring effect: KDE Plasma 5 is completely calculated on the GPU, except you set XRender instead of OpenGL. That is one of the improvements compared to the KDE SC 4.
@@albussd honestly they are all fine, so long as you have closed source compatibility. So Ubuntu, manjaro ship it by default. Otherwise if your PC has Broadcom wifi then you won't have that option for open source drivers
hey DT, btrfs is completely integrated in Garuda. If you make a snapshot with timeshift you can even boot from that ;) Garuda settings manager is a clone of Manjaro settings manager, plus they have a lot of utilities preinstalled.
Finally someone who takes mic and audio setup for youtube videos seriously. Your compressor/limiter is a bit too much "beating a dead horse"-set, but it's better than 80% of other videos. Calm down your compressor a tiny bit, and you are golden.
I really love when dt makes a joke and doesn't even change his tone, it almost makes it sound like he is being serious. It makes it that much more funnier tbh, reminds a little bit of Anxiety War, that guy sometimes does stuff like this.
Wow, this is literally almost exactly what my Manjaro KDE desktop looks like. Basically the Sweet Mars theme with a couple of usability tweaks. I'll remember this, should save me a few configuration steps next time I reinstall!
One thing about kwin's blur effect -- you can actually apply the blur effect to transparent portions of windows that don't explicitly support it based on the window class with the Force Blur kwin script. With this you can "force" transparent portions of yakuake and dolphin's terminal to have the blur effect which don't normally have it out of the box. This means that, in theory, you could use the Force Blur kwin script to apply the blur effect to alacritty if you normally use the terminal with transparency. I was using the sakura terminal for a little bit a few months ago and used that to pretty good effect to add the blur effect to that terminal. There's also a semi-newish fork of the Breeze widget style called Lightly that seems to apply the blur effect a little more liberally than Breeze. At the very least, Lightly applies the blur effect to transparent terminal widgets in dolphin which doesn't happen in the normal Breeze theme.
I swear this guy seems like he's never used computers before... A new run of Firefox with extensions installed of course are gonna open those extensions' welcome/help/settings pages just like when you install an extension normally. It's really not weird. It's normal.
The fonts don't match on the top bar. The font for the time and the font for the left menu items isn't the same. It's the small details that completely ruin the experience. The last 15% that's crucially important to get right to have a professional looking product. The icons on the bar also have no consistent padding around them. This is basic UI stuff. You can look at the Mac OS top bar and see the amount of thought and design that went in to the final product.
Thanks for the review. I’ve got one more SSD available to try this distro out. The artistic part of the OS is outstanding. That’s an innate ability. I used to have Manjaro DDE. 17 I think. When they went to 18 had all kinds of Nvidia driver issues. Tried UbuntuDDE. Had similar issues. There are certain DE that don’t work will with Nvidia and Asus Z77 MB. Was never able to run Linux Mint until recently and one post recommended deleting the fallback driver. Been working fine ever since. Have no idea what’s the root cause.
This is hilarious DT! It's like somebody copied my set-up of Manjaro-KDE exactly & made into an ISO. Everything from the Sweet theme, the blurring in Konsole,with fsh shell, Kvantum-Manager to set the system wide gaussian blur & latte dock. The only thing different, is my 80s retro video wallpaper. I'm gonna go and kick the tyres on this in a VM..
@@user-wk2gi5cp9y It's difficult to explain the pronunciation over text. If you look how it is written in Sanskrit गरुड़ , the last alphabet 'ड़' find it on youtube how its pronounced. Nowadays for convenience most Indian use 'a' at the end so that those who don't speak the language can somehow pronounce it. Hope this video can help you pronounce the last alphabet. th-cam.com/video/LcwXvtiUtng/w-d-xo.html
@@pupperemeritus9189 You should ask yourself the question whether the Sanskrit alphabets have enough representations in English alphabets to be written in English at all.
Really impressive Linux distro. It surely deserves a try (on real hardware). Many thanks for this review. Great video. Quick, concise and effective. A real pleasure to watch.
I installed it about 2 months ago just because of the extremely posh look, but I have to say: It's also great in terms of stability, usability and responsiveness. I'm not a gamer, so I can't say anything about that, but overall it's a really well made distro. I love it.
It is indeed very pretty. I'm surprised you reviewed the KDE version and not the GNOME version, though, since the KDE version is trying hard to emulate the layout of the GNOME version.
There is a kwin script available that can allow you to add the nice blur effect to any window in KDE. I've been using alacritty with it for years now and it looks great. You can add any window simply by adding it's name to the list under kwin scripts in the window management settings to automatically add transparent blur or you can choose to have all windows have transparent except the ones named in the list.
I switched to this to try it out but I am very impressed with the kernel and the DE. It is so simple to use. I am going to keep using to see if it decides to crap out updating or anything.
A quick list of the aesthetic plugins used here. First, the inactive-blur plugin. basically, if there is an active window in front of the desktop, the wallpaper blurs. it's available on the Discover Software Center and the KDE store as a plugin. I had it enabled in my old FerenOS install, absolutely Gorgeous. Also, the beauty line icon theme is probably a fork of Candy-Icons (the one used in PCLinuxOS), and the qt/KDE theme used here is either Sweet-KDE or Sweet-mars. The menu system used is the Application Menu, pretty easy to switch to in Plasma 5. The Dock used is, unsurprisingly, Latte-dock. Don't really know about that wallpaper though. Garuda has probably one of the best-looking plasma configurations I've ever seen (alongside NetRunner 20.01 "twenty" and FerenOS 2020).
Great video Derek!! I LOVE that icon set. When I run plasma I turn off all of the effects and get rid of apps I don't need. I'm running debian KDE. It's very fast on my 12 year old desktop machine with 4 GB of RAM!😀
I just downloaded and tried Garuda Dragonized on my two Linux boxes (Lenovo Y50 with Linux Mint 19 and HP Pavillion with Linux Mint 20). In both cases, the UEFI refused to boot Garuda because it is unsigned. For security reasons, I'm not willing to boot an unsigned distro on my machines, so I gave up. Of course, this should not be a real problem for most users but... if you use your Linux box to do any kind of valuable work, you will likely be as cautious as I am.
The high RAM usage while being idle is because they use "ZRAM". In the words of the dev themselves- - The idle RAM usage will most likely be higher than on other distributions as we use ZRAM and some other tweaks to enhance the general system. performance. Unused RAM is wasted RAM, it's as easy as that.
OMG I'm so happy you did this! I have been dual booting this on my desktop and I fucking LOVE it. Their forums are very friendly and helpful. All around my favorite distro so far. Followed by Arco.
Thanks DT want this to be seen! some really nice Arch distros the lxqt is with kwin it is assume many people have been working to learn Arch and it is geared towards younger people that learning Linux to eventually become such things as system admins ect. Arch freedom!!!
First time on your channel. Love your review and the style of your review. Subscribed. This looks like an exciting desktop, currently use MX19 Linux but may give this a try first on VM. Did like Deepin but was not sure of its Chinese connections.
I've tried my fair share of Linux distro over the past 20 rears or so. I think I've tried sonewhere between 30 and 50 different distro. And not just a quick look at it in a VM, but actually using them as my main OSs. Granted, the majority of them were Debian/Ubuntu based, but I've been using Garuda Gamer edition for the past 6 mobth or, but so far, I'm VERY impressed with its smooth general performance, EXCELLENT gaming performance, user friendlyness, and the absurd amount of open-source application, available. And just the sheer, overall, easy to us it is.
Recently got a new Thinkpad and decided to give Garuda a spin after watching this. My old laptop still has vanilla arch and I highly approve so far as my new daily driver
I am not a power user. I'm just a regular guy that prefers Linux. That said I had not heard of fish. Fish is great! Just the little things make it nice to use when you are in terminal. Feels more like an oldskool text editor with command spell check than a basic terminal. Thank you for this video!
I've just stopped using this distro after a month. It is the most beautiful, and the most unstable Linux distro I have ever experienced. Will just try to replicate it's aesthetics in kubuntu.
@@spaceman117X There are no guides, since its instability it's inherent to some of the packages. For example, it uses a complete latte dock and panel layout, and if you go to latte's reviews, a lot of people have it crashing on their system. Root Actions, perhaps my favorite of its features, has had kdesu and other forms of gaining root access deprecated due to security vulnerabilities. I spent an entire Saturday building up the aesthetics from the ground up, and had to give up on the latest kvantum engine, which apparently is having issues with qt5. However you can force transparency through windows special operations, there's an inactive blur plugin for the desktop, the icons are NOT candy like most people think, but BeautyLine. You just have to build it bit by bit and be ready to make some compromises here and there.
I just right away liked your video listening the name of this Linux... Garuda is so much into Indian scriptures...i just love seeing something related to it😊
See, if he wants to be ignorant you don't need to simplify things for him. But as the developer mentioned 'Shree' on top that clearly means they meant Lord Garuda. You don't translate 'God' to 'invisible over controlling entity', hope you get my point. It's the user responsibly to learn. Hope you get my point and take it positively and use this suggestion for future response to the foreigners.
@@dahiyasahab120 if they can call lord Ganesha, Elephant God, lord Hanuman, Monkey God then we can translate their god as an invisible over controlling entity. What do you say 😜🤣
@@dahiyasahab120 if you don't care then why there hell did you cared to tell him 'Eagle is called garuda' cus clearly the video creator don't care about what you said.
In Tibetan Buddhism, the garuda is one of the Four Dignities-animals that represent characteristics of a bodhisattva. The four animals are the dragon representing power, the tiger representing confidence, the snow lion representing fearlessness, and the garuda representing wisdom.
Great review Dereck, I guess the name Dr46onized came from one developer named like that (the same who reply to you ;-) ) however I think i will do a try on phisical hardware if i'll be free for that
I tried it but found two problems. One is that I found no easy way to set the screen resolution besides using xrandr. The other thing I could no figure out was how to set the start programs. That said it is a very beautiful program. But not being able to set up to my liking I could not use it. I hope that they can resolve these issues.
I actually don't like the blur affect in terminal because I use transparency to see text behind the terminal, lol! Though purely from an aesthetics perspective the blur does look nicer, and it's easier to separate the terminal from content behind.
As a lifelong Mac user I would/will strongly consider this distro if/when I ever decide to switch to linux because of the very Mac-like interface. It looks like a very nice distro that looks pretty much like how I would choose to set it up out of the box
@@justsomeguy8385 I've looked at that too but I wasn't really a huge fan of it out of the box. Maybe with some tweaking I could get it right but I don't think it was quite right for me. I think that part of the reason might be because Elementary doesn't put menu bar items in the status bar. That is kinda ground into my muscle memory from using MacOS all my life so that is a pretty important feature for me.
Need a bit of help with a couple of things: 1. How can I get the dock NOT to auto-hide? 2. How can I move the minimize/close/maximize icons to the right side of the windows? Thank you!
"Butter FS" I always read it as B-Tree file system. "B-tree" is technically the same number of syllables as "Butter" but neither really rolls off the tongue.
Very Mac looking, the window widgets and button/text are identical. I don't know if there is a connection there to Valentino Rossi Dr 46 ... more like a coincidence I would think ;-)
Hey DT, nice video, this seems interesting, also, Okular is KDE's PDF viewer now image viewer and it is the best PDF viewer in and operating system (I use zathura though,.lol)
I don't like how the whole wallpaper is blurred when a program is opened. IMHO: The effect should be limited to the bounds of the window and not the whole desktop.
there is a setup assistant to install office suite, messaging apps and a bunch more that you can select. the garuda apps are quite useful for newcomers.
Hey DistroTube, thanks for that great review, appreciate it! You got me started on fish lately so it had to be included in this version.. and btw, missing applications can easily be installed via the setup assistant :D
Thanks! Keep up the great work!
You clearly have great taste Mate! Looks exactly like my Manjaro install. I think I'm gonna hose it & install yours coz I was really thinking of doing a clean install with better snapshotting capabilities. This may have saved me a lot of time...
Is there any way of installing your customizations on top of Garuda KDE Ultimate? Or is it easier to use your Lite edition and install the missing stuff from Gaming Center etc.?
Replacing the KDE settings package with garuda-dr460nized-settings + applying /etc/skel & installing fish + its config package should work fine
Also compare packagelists found on the download page to get an idea of package differences
@@OGdr460nf1r3 Could You elaborate on this please
This distro is made by final year graduation student from india who lives in my neighbourhood. The distro is heavily inspired by Manjaro and arco linux. Garuda means Eagle in India and hence the name of distro. Actually dev made this distro for hi personal use and later made a standalone distribution.
hey man! ask that dude to teach me how to use...
Not sure if anyone noticed but their firefox seems to come with ublock origin by default. Huge thumbs up to Garuda just for that
@@IndellableHatesHandles no they're not. If someone likes the content of the page, they should be able to allow that. The internet should be a pull system for the user, not a push
@@IndellableHatesHandles Adblockers are extra moral for open source developers
@@duckmeat4674 Where did I say that you couldn't use one? All I said was that I wouldn't use one because I support other developers.
@@IndellableHatesHandles ads are immoral to the audience. They are tracking, a waste of time and date, annoying, hold more information than should exists, and collect a profile without consent. I support developers too, not by ads though
@@duckmeat4674 Most devs wouldn't develop without ad revenue, so ads run the internet.. I agree that they shouldn't track but the problem isn't the concept, it's the implementation.
This is really the most stunning look of a Linux desktop I have ever seen. Plasma was always a very shiny desktop, but this is next level!
Btw dark reader is an extension that generates dark themes for websites. Quite useful especially if doing something at night.
If you have the RAM, enjoy that DarkReader. I use it over here by default too.
@Вероника Заглотова you can also default turn on the dark mode from chrome flags or whatever browser you are using
@@Containerrd Does Firefox have that feature, too?
@@Containerrd It is way too dark for me. The youtube logos text is as black as the background so I can't read it.
@Вероника Заглотова I prefer the look of dark mode, besides I have like 16gb of ram and only keep like 3 tabs open so it's great for me
CPU usage would be lower on real hardware - due to kwin using GPU accel rather than more software rendering in a KVM VM
this distro looks amazing, i don't think you noticed this, but the desktop background blurs when you are focused on an application.
this distro is so beautiful
Manjaro KDE has the same effect, though not enabled by default. Too bad cause it's great. For those wondering: System settings -> Workspace -> Workspace behaviour -> Desktop effects -> Focus -> Dim inactive.
He said that in the video
You can do that with any KDE Plasma Desktop. I loved running the live usb Garuda, but it wouldn't LVM encrypt on installation and I can't have that. So I dressed up my Parrotsec partition to look like Garuda, use the Plasma theme called Sweet, the Latte dock, and manually switch over a few icons that don't automatically use the theme icons. Inactive blur can be used on your wallpaper, and other things like using .webm or .gif video loops instead of pics.
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Btw, the theme used in that edition you are using is called Sweet, the icon pack is called Candy
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you I added it to manjaro it brilliant.
i like sweet theme.
Smells like PClinuxOS
i think the icon is beauty line
Garuda: "We believe that more ram improves the responsiveness of the system"
Me: *Mind blown*
*I have not watched the entire video so im not sure where this happened*
I think you might be thinking of this wrongly. They probably arent talking about the fact that a PC with 8GB of ram will be more responsive than a PC with 4GB of ram. Its more about how much ram is being used by the pc itself out of the available ram. If there is high ram usage even when you are not really doing anything and your pc works just fine then that could mean your OS has allocated some ram so it doesnt have to keep reallocating and stuff and this can improve performance (Especially when you have a lot of things running).
This matches with the principle "Unused ram is wasted ram". That wasted ram could be used to increase responsiveness.
Is almost as if RAM had a purpose to begin with!
More and less what android does
I thought only mobile operating systems did that lol
@Saintbow It holds programs and other stuff longer in RAM (resulting in higher RAM utilization) because reading from RAM is so much faster than reading from disk
I love this distro. I finally stopped distro hopping and installed this distro as my daily driver . Love the KDE version
Absolutely amazing! The folks that made this did an excellent job!
"kinda sounds like a cheese"
You said that like it's a bad thing. Cheese is awesome! :D
I have had some cheeses that were questionable.
@@DistroTube Garuda is just Indonesian version of American bald eagle
@@DistroTube bedt cheese is French 😜😉😉😉😉
Ah, that makes sense now with that splash screen that had the eagle's head.
Don't the French make that stinky Limburger cheese?
I did a double-take when DT hadn't heard of DarkReader. Really cool to see it bundled with Firefox
Garuda Linux is developed in India. Garuda has lovely icons, nice set of apps. Good distro to use overall.
Dr46onized "That gottta be a hacker" old joke but hey I smiled
I thought it was supposed to say Dr Agonized lmao
@@piercesutton5967 LMAO
OMG the way he $p3L7 that shit! Mad skillx!!
Dr46 most probably refers to Valentino Rossi
1:24 “We believe in principle “Unused RAM is wasted RAM”
🤔...
that means they use preload, to make apps launch faster
I wish they would've said that instead of just having a link, but oh well
Well, isn't it?
Chrome already has 5 PhDs in that
Too bad that Kubuntu doesn't do that and it's very slow when running from a USB flash drive.
I like the strong and complicated password with 2 characters. DT is a real hacker who knows to protect his stuff! :D
And we don't know that 2 characters are "dt"
WHAT THE F!!! I just discovered this OS tonight LOL! And you make a video about it 6 hours later!
Seems like some of the main devs of this distro are Indian and the name Garuda gives it away. Garuda is a mythical creature in Hindu (also Buddhist and Jain - not sure) Mythology which takes the form of a giant eagle and is a mount for a god named Vishnu.
Btw, good video and glad the algorithm brought me here. Earned a sub.
Garuda is also eagle in Indonesian, so the devs might be from there too, but indiisaalso likely
The name, the theme, the dev being Indian really sold it eh?
I kooled it up and you're right, the developer are indian
@@bucephalus9759 tu laa pasal?
@@bucephalus9759 tu laa pasal
Doing uname -r when the kernel is already shown by neofetch when the terminal opens DOH! It happens to the best of us.
Garuda is a very nice distro. I used Manjaro for a long time but eventually went back to vanilla Arch until I found Garuda. Now all my machines run Garuda
I don’t know why DT skipped the “Garuda Tools” in the welcome screen. I would have started with that 🤷♂️
>Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell
Is this fish? does neofetch tell me what the default shell is?
🤣🤣
Fish in the title bar
A bunch of wanabees trying to look kool but failing miserably. Fish in the title doesn't tell its the default shell. Start a terminal (with bash), launch fish (or even if you put fish in the .bashrc) and type in neofetch. It will still tell you default is bash. New born noobs trying hard, but hilarious fail.
@@naradmoni2830 This reads like a parody of a shithead Linux user
About the blurring effect: KDE Plasma 5 is completely calculated on the GPU, except you set XRender instead of OpenGL. That is one of the improvements compared to the KDE SC 4.
Everyone have their own distro nowadays but is anyone gonna work for wifi adapter compatibility?
Whenever wifi adaptors companies decide to actually open source their firmware BROADCOMM
@@duckmeat4674 Which of these companies is the least worst when it comes to driver support for Linux?
@@albussd honestly they are all fine, so long as you have closed source compatibility. So Ubuntu, manjaro ship it by default. Otherwise if your PC has Broadcom wifi then you won't have that option for open source drivers
Did we just kill their webserver?
We're still waiting for dtOS
That blur effect is also called "acrylic" to convey the idea of having the window on top of a frosted acrylic pane.
If I'm not mistaken this is the Sweet kde theme.
probably an improved version, with a more "globalized" theme integration
Yep thats the Sweet KDE theme. This theme looks awesome on Manjaro KDE.
Can someone please link this icon pack for gnome
@@PiyushRaj-fv2yl its the candy-icons pack. search it up
@@PiyushRaj-fv2yl www.pling.com/s/Gnome/p/1253385/
this is sweet theme
Garuda means "Eagle" in Hindi btw. And this looks really cool
hey DT, btrfs is completely integrated in Garuda. If you make a snapshot with timeshift you can even boot from that ;)
Garuda settings manager is a clone of Manjaro settings manager, plus they have a lot of utilities preinstalled.
Finally someone who takes mic and audio setup for youtube videos seriously. Your compressor/limiter is a bit too much "beating a dead horse"-set, but it's better than 80% of other videos.
Calm down your compressor a tiny bit, and you are golden.
It’s probably to avoid a n00b from complaining that they can’t install stuff on their 2 Gig USB.
😂😂😂
I really love when dt makes a joke and doesn't even change his tone, it almost makes it sound like he is being serious. It makes it that much more funnier tbh, reminds a little bit of Anxiety War, that guy sometimes does stuff like this.
Wow, this is literally almost exactly what my Manjaro KDE desktop looks like. Basically the Sweet Mars theme with a couple of usability tweaks. I'll remember this, should save me a few configuration steps next time I reinstall!
One thing about kwin's blur effect -- you can actually apply the blur effect to transparent portions of windows that don't explicitly support it based on the window class with the Force Blur kwin script. With this you can "force" transparent portions of yakuake and dolphin's terminal to have the blur effect which don't normally have it out of the box.
This means that, in theory, you could use the Force Blur kwin script to apply the blur effect to alacritty if you normally use the terminal with transparency. I was using the sakura terminal for a little bit a few months ago and used that to pretty good effect to add the blur effect to that terminal.
There's also a semi-newish fork of the Breeze widget style called Lightly that seems to apply the blur effect a little more liberally than Breeze. At the very least, Lightly applies the blur effect to transparent terminal widgets in dolphin which doesn't happen in the normal Breeze theme.
A great review as we are all used to coming from you!!!! Thx!
Now, that microphone sound deep. Love the sound.
I swear this guy seems like he's never used computers before... A new run of Firefox with extensions installed of course are gonna open those extensions' welcome/help/settings pages just like when you install an extension normally. It's really not weird. It's normal.
The fonts don't match on the top bar. The font for the time and the font for the left menu items isn't the same. It's the small details that completely ruin the experience. The last 15% that's crucially important to get right to have a professional looking product. The icons on the bar also have no consistent padding around them. This is basic UI stuff. You can look at the Mac OS top bar and see the amount of thought and design that went in to the final product.
Thanks for the review. I’ve got one more SSD available to try this distro out. The artistic part of the OS is outstanding. That’s an innate ability. I used to have Manjaro DDE. 17 I think. When they went to 18 had all kinds of Nvidia driver issues. Tried UbuntuDDE. Had similar issues. There are certain DE that don’t work will with Nvidia and Asus Z77 MB. Was never able to run Linux Mint until recently and one post recommended deleting the fallback driver. Been working fine ever since. Have no idea what’s the root cause.
This is hilarious DT! It's like somebody copied my set-up of Manjaro-KDE exactly & made into an ISO. Everything from the Sweet theme, the blurring in Konsole,with fsh shell, Kvantum-Manager to set the system wide gaussian blur & latte dock. The only thing different, is my 80s retro video wallpaper. I'm gonna go and kick the tyres on this in a VM..
BTW, Garuda in hindi (Language widely spoken in India) means eagle. Hence the logo choice and eagle images inside the website. Cool stuff ngl!
That's a Sanskrit name: Garuda. The 'a' is not pronounced, never is in Sanskrit. Garuda is an eagle. The vehicle (vahan) of Sri Vishnu.
So do we pronounce it as "grud" ?
@@user-wk2gi5cp9y It's difficult to explain the pronunciation over text. If you look how it is written in Sanskrit गरुड़ , the last alphabet 'ड़' find it on youtube how its pronounced. Nowadays for convenience most Indian use 'a' at the end so that those who don't speak the language can somehow pronounce it. Hope this video can help you pronounce the last alphabet. th-cam.com/video/LcwXvtiUtng/w-d-xo.html
@@user-wk2gi5cp9y spell it like "ga"+ "ru"+ "da" try saying them individually and then with the same indvidual sound combine them
sanskrit is a phonetic language. shouldnt it be spelt how it is written.
@@pupperemeritus9189 You should ask yourself the question whether the Sanskrit alphabets have enough representations in English alphabets to be written in English at all.
Really impressive Linux distro. It surely deserves a try (on real hardware). Many thanks for this review. Great video. Quick, concise and effective. A real pleasure to watch.
I installed it about 2 months ago just because of the extremely posh look, but I have to say: It's also great in terms of stability, usability and responsiveness. I'm not a gamer, so I can't say anything about that, but overall it's a really well made distro. I love it.
It is indeed very pretty. I'm surprised you reviewed the KDE version and not the GNOME version, though, since the KDE version is trying hard to emulate the layout of the GNOME version.
There is a kwin script available that can allow you to add the nice blur effect to any window in KDE. I've been using alacritty with it for years now and it looks great. You can add any window simply by adding it's name to the list under kwin scripts in the window management settings to automatically add transparent blur or you can choose to have all windows have transparent except the ones named in the list.
This is an amazing distro for a desktop. For laptops, it does chug a lot of juice. It doesn't even allow you to install TLP, understandably.
I switched to this to try it out but I am very impressed with the kernel and the DE. It is so simple to use. I am going to keep using to see if it decides to crap out updating or anything.
A quick list of the aesthetic plugins used here. First, the inactive-blur plugin. basically, if there is an active window in front of the desktop, the wallpaper blurs. it's available on the Discover Software Center and the KDE store as a plugin. I had it enabled in my old FerenOS install, absolutely Gorgeous. Also, the beauty line icon theme is probably a fork of Candy-Icons (the one used in PCLinuxOS), and the qt/KDE theme used here is either Sweet-KDE or Sweet-mars. The menu system used is the Application Menu, pretty easy to switch to in Plasma 5. The Dock used is, unsurprisingly, Latte-dock. Don't really know about that wallpaper though. Garuda has probably one of the best-looking plasma configurations I've ever seen (alongside NetRunner 20.01 "twenty" and FerenOS 2020).
How do you get window control buttons integrated into the top bar in pop_os??
@@rajatmishra12 not sure. Try looking for such an extension on gnome extensions. Gnome itself has very little in the way of customizability.
@@rajatmishra12 use extension to auto hide top bar
Great video Derek!! I LOVE that icon set. When I run plasma I turn off all of the effects and get rid of apps I don't need. I'm running debian KDE. It's very fast on my 12 year old desktop machine with 4 GB of RAM!😀
Windows 10 loading animation! 4:00 right below the garuda logo. I never saw this in a Linux distro before.
aur.archlinux.org/plymouth-theme-arch10.git
I just downloaded and tried Garuda Dragonized on my two Linux boxes (Lenovo Y50 with Linux Mint 19 and HP Pavillion with Linux Mint 20). In both cases, the UEFI refused to boot Garuda because it is unsigned. For security reasons, I'm not willing to boot an unsigned distro on my machines, so I gave up. Of course, this should not be a real problem for most users but... if you use your Linux box to do any kind of valuable work, you will likely be as cautious as I am.
The high RAM usage while being idle is because they use "ZRAM". In the words of the dev themselves-
- The idle RAM usage will most likely be higher than on other distributions as we use ZRAM and some other tweaks to enhance the general system. performance. Unused RAM is wasted RAM, it's as easy as that.
OMG I'm so happy you did this! I have been dual booting this on my desktop and I fucking LOVE it. Their forums are very friendly and helpful. All around my favorite distro so far. Followed by Arco.
this is definetly going to be my next distro
Thanks DT want this to be seen! some really nice Arch distros the lxqt is with kwin it is assume many people have been working to learn Arch and it is geared towards younger people that learning Linux to eventually become such things as system admins ect. Arch freedom!!!
First time on your channel. Love your review and the style of your review. Subscribed. This looks like an exciting desktop, currently use MX19 Linux but may give this a try first on VM. Did like Deepin but was not sure of its Chinese connections.
Thanks DT ! Yes very nice distro ! Thank you. I’m running it on vm just to try. Right now I like it !
I've tried my fair share of Linux distro over the past 20 rears or so. I think I've tried sonewhere between 30 and 50 different distro. And not just a quick look at it in a VM, but actually using them as my main OSs. Granted, the majority of them were Debian/Ubuntu based, but I've been using Garuda Gamer edition for the past 6 mobth or, but so far, I'm VERY impressed with its smooth general performance, EXCELLENT gaming performance, user friendlyness, and the absurd amount of open-source application, available. And just the sheer, overall, easy to us it is.
Guy makes *strong and complicated* password
_Types two characters_
Sarcasm drivers not found
Clear, honest and funny. Good job man!
Recently got a new Thinkpad and decided to give Garuda a spin after watching this. My old laptop still has vanilla arch and I highly approve so far as my new daily driver
I am not a power user. I'm just a regular guy that prefers Linux. That said I had not heard of fish. Fish is great! Just the little things make it nice to use when you are in terminal. Feels more like an oldskool text editor with command spell check than a basic terminal. Thank you for this video!
Great review and your Audio sounds very nice :-)
You and The 8-Bit Guy sound so similar it's crazy, you are like voice-twins, to my ear at least lol
great video DT, well worth watching. :)
I've just stopped using this distro after a month. It is the most beautiful, and the most unstable Linux distro I have ever experienced. Will just try to replicate it's aesthetics in kubuntu.
Thanks, I want to do the same! Please let me know if you do it. I cannot find any usefull tutorial online.
@@spaceman117X There are no guides, since its instability it's inherent to some of the packages. For example, it uses a complete latte dock and panel layout, and if you go to latte's reviews, a lot of people have it crashing on their system. Root Actions, perhaps my favorite of its features, has had kdesu and other forms of gaining root access deprecated due to security vulnerabilities.
I spent an entire Saturday building up the aesthetics from the ground up, and had to give up on the latest kvantum engine, which apparently is having issues with qt5. However you can force transparency through windows special operations, there's an inactive blur plugin for the desktop, the icons are NOT candy like most people think, but BeautyLine.
You just have to build it bit by bit and be ready to make some compromises here and there.
@@Venezuelangel Thanks, guess I will just try to install the Sweet KDE theme.
I just right away liked your video listening the name of this Linux...
Garuda is so much into Indian scriptures...i just love seeing something related to it😊
Hey DT, Eagle is called 'garuda' in Hindi.
BTW Love from India ♥️🇮🇳
See, if he wants to be ignorant you don't need to simplify things for him. But as the developer mentioned 'Shree' on top that clearly means they meant Lord Garuda. You don't translate 'God' to 'invisible over controlling entity', hope you get my point. It's the user responsibly to learn. Hope you get my point and take it positively and use this suggestion for future response to the foreigners.
@@dahiyasahab120 if they can call lord Ganesha, Elephant God, lord Hanuman, Monkey God then we can translate their god as an invisible over controlling entity.
What do you say 😜🤣
@@dahiyasahab120 if you don't care then why there hell did you cared to tell him 'Eagle is called garuda' cus clearly the video creator don't care about what you said.
Also clearly you need to learn more
Best this is you can see through the app when you start moving it. It's the most brilliant feature I've ever seen in an OS
12:34 Looks like a few firefox-related things were going to be installed but not firefox per se.
In November 2023 it's still great. Test driving it on my laptop now but it may take over my main system.
In Tibetan Buddhism, the garuda is one of the Four Dignities-animals that represent characteristics of a bodhisattva. The four animals are the dragon representing power, the tiger representing confidence, the snow lion representing fearlessness, and the garuda representing wisdom.
i got a cheese ad on this video, thanks dt
same lol
You could also click the **install** button on the Welcome window
Looks like their using the Iridescent Global Theme.
I also landed on that when I installed KDE Plasma a few days ago, good theme
Great review Dereck, I guess the name Dr46onized came from one developer named like that (the same who reply to you ;-) )
however I think i will do a try on phisical hardware if i'll be free for that
I tried it but found two problems. One is that I found no easy way to set the screen resolution besides using xrandr. The other thing I could no figure out was how to set the start programs. That said it is a very beautiful program. But not being able to set up to my liking I could not use it. I hope that they can resolve these issues.
Awesome Video DT!
I actually don't like the blur affect in terminal because I use transparency to see text behind the terminal, lol! Though purely from an aesthetics perspective the blur does look nicer, and it's easier to separate the terminal from content behind.
Looks nice and polished, which there were something similar with twms, with a pre-riced config and picom blur+transparency+transitions
As a lifelong Mac user I would/will strongly consider this distro if/when I ever decide to switch to linux because of the very Mac-like interface. It looks like a very nice distro that looks pretty much like how I would choose to set it up out of the box
Check out ElementaryOS if you like the MacOS look.
@@justsomeguy8385 I've looked at that too but I wasn't really a huge fan of it out of the box. Maybe with some tweaking I could get it right but I don't think it was quite right for me. I think that part of the reason might be because Elementary doesn't put menu bar items in the status bar. That is kinda ground into my muscle memory from using MacOS all my life so that is a pretty important feature for me.
@@justsomeguy8385 How do you get window control buttons integrated into the top bar in pop_os??
@@shock9616 How do you get window control buttons integrated into the top bar in pop_os??
Garuda is the divine vehicle of Lord Vishu the protector. It's commonly pronounced as Garuudd
My first impression of this distro was horrible.
Every animations was slow and laggy.
So I came back to Manjaro KDE and it’s running so smoothly now.
Seems so tbh
Have the opposite impression. This for sure is faster and more pretty than anything manjaro did
@@karserasl what's the idle ram usage for KDE?
The guest user profile installed by default is really incomprehensible. It is also not so simple to remove
"Where is their installer" literally in front of his eyes on the welcome dialog xD
Need a bit of help with a couple of things:
1. How can I get the dock NOT to auto-hide?
2. How can I move the minimize/close/maximize icons to the right side of the windows?
Thank you!
I think the theme they are using is "Sweet KDE by eliver" in the new global themes section or at least similar to it.
"Butter FS" I always read it as B-Tree file system. "B-tree" is technically the same number of syllables as "Butter" but neither really rolls off the tongue.
I read it as B.T.R. F.S.
Very Mac looking, the window widgets and button/text are identical. I don't know if there is a connection there to Valentino Rossi Dr 46 ... more like a coincidence I would think ;-)
Garuda..didn't Godzilla fight it in a movie?
Yes, it's an old black and white film. Godzilla Vs. Mothra Vs. Garuda
The resource usage is also due to them prioritizing load times and responsiveness of programs.
im wathing this in garuda linux! gota say tho getting it set up the way i like it with me being a noob was slightly tricky but so far i love it
Hey DT, nice video, this seems interesting, also, Okular is KDE's PDF viewer now image viewer and it is the best PDF viewer in and operating system (I use zathura though,.lol)
I don't like how the whole wallpaper is blurred when a program is opened.
IMHO: The effect should be limited to the bounds of the window and not the whole desktop.
Very cool to see Btrfs used by default.
there is a setup assistant to install office suite, messaging apps and a bunch more that you can select. the garuda apps are quite useful for newcomers.