A First Look At Garuda Linux KDE "Dr4Gonized"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ย. 2020
- Recently I have been getting a lot of requests from viewers of the channel to take a look at a Linux distribution that I had never heard about--Garuda Linux. This is yet another Arch-based distro but it does some different things. Most notable is that it uses the Zen kernel and seems to be optimized for gamers.
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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.
CPU usage would be lower on real hardware - due to kwin using GPU accel rather than more software rendering in a KVM VM
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
@@Nigghachu Does Firefox have that feature, too?
@@Nigghachu 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
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!
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
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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Absolutely amazing! The folks that made this did an excellent job!
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
I love this distro. I finally stopped distro hopping and installed this distro as my daily driver . Love the KDE version
Garuda Linux is developed in India. Garuda has lovely icons, nice set of apps. Good distro to use overall.
I did a double-take when DT hadn't heard of DarkReader. Really cool to see it bundled with Firefox
"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?
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
A great review as we are all used to coming from you!!!! Thx!
WHAT THE F!!! I just discovered this OS tonight LOL! And you make a video about it 6 hours later!
I don’t know why DT skipped the “Garuda Tools” in the welcome screen. I would have started with that 🤷♂️
Doing uname -r when the kernel is already shown by neofetch when the terminal opens DOH! It happens to the best of us.
>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
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!😀
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.
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.
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"
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
Awesome Video DT!
We're still waiting for dtOS
Thanks DT ! Yes very nice distro ! Thank you. I’m running it on vm just to try. Right now I like it !
Now, that microphone sound deep. Love the sound.
great video DT, well worth watching. :)
Clear, honest and funny. Good job man!
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!
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.
this is definetly going to be my next distro
Great review and your Audio sounds very nice :-)
I love the sweet theme to it I use it on my Arco-Linux XFCE 4. good video DistroTube
That blur effect is also called "acrylic" to convey the idea of having the window on top of a frosted acrylic pane.
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.
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.
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
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
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
Hey . Thanks for the review. Might you have any tutorials on creating your own Linux distribution. I would like to learn and create my own from sources
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!!!
Hi DitroTube, great job keep it going. One quick question : what would you recommend as a distro for a general user that would require a little Python programming, casual gaming (few times per year) and more like internet browsing, documents, etc. The system would be a laptop i7 gen 6, a SSD with 8GB RAM. Thanks in advance
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..
Looks nice and polished, which there were something similar with twms, with a pre-riced config and picom blur+transparency+transitions
Sweet Mars KDE theme rocks ;)
Had original one on my desktop and mars on my former laptop, looked great!
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.
Did we just kill their webserver?
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.
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.
Garuda means "Eagle" in Hindi btw. And this looks really cool
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)
It’s probably to avoid a n00b from complaining that they can’t install stuff on their 2 Gig USB.
😂😂😂
I bought 16gb ssd 2.5"
Now i have the power!
It suits my 512mb of ddr2 perfectly
+4gb of swap x)
So i have around 10gb of disk space
Too much for window manager still , and for lynx or even midori
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.
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
Cool distro, you did use xrandr to set resolution in the installer. It said wayland when installed? Is that default too?,Or was that session specific choice? just wondering.
Does look nice. Great job design works.
Thank you I will try this one.
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.
Very cool to see Btrfs used by default.
Hey DT first. Happy thanksgiving to you and yours. Many blessing to you and your family.
2nd. Quick question I installed y this iso on virt manager but when I run xrandr it does not show me any resolution that I can use. I type in my resolution but I get a feedback. Size not found in available modes
Nice terminal, this "console-with-a-k"
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
Installed it, loving it so far.
I love the look of this distro
You could also click the **install** button on the Welcome window
Gorgeous looking distro!! Would be nice to be able to import all settings on my already installe manjaro!
it would be cool if you made a list of distros you would want to use if you couldnt use base arch or arco linux
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
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.
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.
Beautiful looking distro
Are there ways to use fewer system resources? Making the windows opaque instead of translucent, for instance?
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.
Okay. can anyone tell me how much performance does this actually gain you? i used to run arch linux like a year ago but didn't update since then and i maybe want to install this rather than arch
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.
BTW, Garuda in hindi (Language widely spoken in India) means eagle. Hence the logo choice and eagle images inside the website. Cool stuff ngl!
Wow it runs Wayland KDE! Pretty cool!
Yea but its pretty broken.
Wayland on kde needs too much work.
My 2nd monitor went crazy under wayland
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 just installed it last Saturday on my XPS 9550, chose the brown and it came with xfce as DE, very neat!
I think ur laptop is powerful enough to run the "full-fat" versions(d46onized) of garuda.
Garuda KDE Dr46onized is my main Linux distro that I use. I like it!
You and The 8-Bit Guy sound so similar it's crazy, you are like voice-twins, to my ear at least lol
What do you think about Zorin OS 16??
Guy makes *strong and complicated* password
_Types two characters_
Sarcasm drivers not found
The resource usage is also due to them prioritizing load times and responsiveness of programs.
Looks like their using the Iridescent Global Theme.
I also landed on that when I installed KDE Plasma a few days ago, good theme
Welcome. Cool channel YT you drive. Thanks for your work. I have a question. What Linux distribution will work for someone who does not know Linux and to want to change from Windows. To be steadily, respect privacy, easy to use. Small requirements: Office package, photo edition and graphic designs, video editing, screen screenshots and video screenshots for tutorials. I will ask you what programs on Linux will provide all? What Distro you recommend? Best wishes.
Something to mess around with in my VM. Love that it's Arch based.
I recommend not to, they state on their site this isn’t a very good distro to use on a vm.
i got a cheese ad on this video, thanks dt
same lol
Would you recommend this to a new user of Linux?
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😊
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
In November 2023 it's still great. Test driving it on my laptop now but it may take over my main system.
I haven't gotten into Arch yet, but when I do, I might check this out instead of manjaro. If only just for the zen kernel and the helpful gaming tab.
I've been using Fedora for over a year, and I'm wondering if it might be good to checkout another distro just to benefit from fewer kde bugs. Lawrd I have to disable all compositing because of all the kde bugs. Heck, one time I crashed the whole thing by opening Dolphin.
my machine ain't weak either.
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.
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.