Garuda Linux Ultimate Edition - Performance Out of the Box!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2020
- Garuda Linux is the new Arch Linux based distro that is configured for performance out of the box and comes with a range of GUI tools do tweak almost anything you want.
ZSH, BTRFS, ZRAM, automatic snapshots on upgrade and performance CPU scaling set up automatically.
This is a distro for gamers and power users who really want their OS to deliver the goods. As a result it's resource requirements are higher
than you would tend to expect, but that's what you get when you add the tweaks and all the go faster bits and pieces.
If I'm honest I prefer something a little more lightweight and less customised, but I can see this appealing to many users.
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meanwhile in windows land, using 7gb of ram running the OS and the browser.
On my work laptop just having teams open plus all the other stuff on a fresh boot hits 6 gb easily.
I've had it for a week on my gaming laptop and it is incredibly good looking and has all the packages I like
How does it handle switched between dedicated and integrated graphics? I'm using popos right now
Using it on my secondary ThinkPad that I use for distro hopping. So good I haven't touched my daily driver XPS running Ubuntu. I am not even a gamer but I truly appreciate how the pre-configurations are so well thought.
Thanks for another thoughtful and honest review. Stay well and I'll be standing by for you next video.
Cheers Deech
Hello OTB. Love your style of doing reviews. Cheers.
Keep it up!
Thanks mate
Great review....Your explanations where very useful...I will try their lower weight versions ...love the idea of many GUI tools
Love the way you introduced this video topic. Great tempo
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I really enjoy your videos fantastic work. Thank you because I learned a lot from your videos.
You are very welcome
This might be the distro for me. It's got almost all the tweaks I did to my Manjaro install. I also appreciate all the preinstalled tools because you just don't know what you need until you have it!
Yes Grauda is for me. I use MATE Lite on my laptop. Great distro.
To be honest i am intrigued by this distro but this is not a distro i would use personally because i am more of a window manager only kinda guy who loves to have light system with some gaming capabilities but with that said i can understand the point of this distro mainly because of the country of origin of this distro and that is india.
In india we barely have any linux community which is evident by the fact that we only have one popular indian linux YTchannel (linux tex) due to the fact that technical literacy is low in india and mostly everyone here uses windows. so i think what garuda linux team is trying to do is that they are trying to attract those people by giving them a fully configured powerful arch system with all the bells and whistles they could possibly need to make the transition easier so that they can build the linux community here in india by giving then push in the right direction.
btw love from india i really like your laided back style for video sir keep it up✌
Thanks mate and your explanation makes a lot of sense
Tarun is right. We need more people to learn about Linux here in India.
I m on linux now
Good, honest video. Cheers from California.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Agreed that Garuda team has been doing a great job & this distro is addressed to specific users like gamers or full edition distro system. I had already given it a go in one of my systems but then noticed this Zen high Ram usage which did not suit my basic classic hardware.
yeah it is definately a heavy distro
Great distro to enrice people from Windows ... it's a brilliant distro
Good review, OTB...!!! I installed the Plasma lite version about a month ago - and yeah, there's obviously clever guy's behind Garuda.... Some of it is overkill, but it's there. LOL- GUFW rules
Like your video from India
Keep it up bro 🙃🙃
Hey OTB if you were a fan of the old compiz for Mate you may really enjoy the Wayfire version of Garuda. It is probably the most interesting Linux desktop I have seen in a while. I am like you I have been a single desktop user for years but occasionally I will try new things to to see what is out there. The Wayfire version is like a cross between Mate, Openbox, & Compiz/Kwin. It has so much potential to be the next popular desktop environment.
I’ll take a look but I have to say I was never really a fan of wobbly windows and spinning boxes 😁
@@OldTechBloke Me either I normally just turn that stuff off but besides the animation it seems Wayfire might be a good base for the Linux desktop to be more quote "Normie" friendly to those switch from Windows or Mac OS. Great video as always OTB!! Have a great day!
You should ty Manjaro's mhwd-kernel kernel manager, it's great (it is also in the terminal)
yeah its nice that they ported manjaros mhwd maaager over to Garuda.
I was able to install this in VirtualBox without any issues. Wanted to give it a spin and it's not bad. I'm sure some will like it.
This totally destroyed my trippelboot Macbook Pro. Messed up all EFI partitionings. Be aware. Othervise it is VERY nice looking with the "Sweet" icon theme:-)
Sorry to hear that
Huh, this is very interesting. Been using Manjaro for almost a year but if things break for some reason then I might just swap to this. Hopefully by then it is more stable than it looks here.
I would suggest you check out hefftor linux instead if you want something more stable, garuda is very buggy, but its getting better with each release.
Good luck!
I am currently using the Garuda Linux Gnome Edition. The KDE Plasma edition you are reviewing here did give me issues. Froze on me a few times and it was laggy. KDE is known to be problematic and not as stable and fast as Gnome so I am not surprised. The Gnome version runs and performs like a charm.
How to enable menu bar by default its disabled on my laptop
For me, Mint 20 seems far ahead. Thanks OTB for giving me a chance for chat. Used Linux for over a decade. Geoff.
Garuda (or गरुड़) means hawk and usually meant as a symbol for agility in South East Asia. A great name for a distro that is always rolling state and meant for performance. I'll try it out as my secondary distro.
I was thinking Garuda would be mainly a name for King of birds in hindu mythology. Also seen in Thailand, there is often a half human half bird being seen on official seals and statues in many temples also named Garuda iirc.
@@keinunvergebenesaliasgefunden Garuda is an important figure in Buddhist, Jain and Hindu societies, so I wouldn't be surprised if you saw in Thai temples.
Garuda is Sanskrit word, first mentioned in Hindu culture
not sure how I feel about some of the design choices like ZRAM and BTRS out of the box. It's interesting, but I think I'd want to do that manually.
The Btrs snapshots are awesome, its intergrated with grub so you can roll back on boot if system is screwed, its hard to configure for youselves.
Great review OTB, the way you explain these things is very good, thank you. This distro is also really not for me either. My Arch(Qtile) system tops out at 620 packages (and it sits at about 190MB RAM at startup), this would be a massive bloat of scary proportions for me. Of cause they have lighter editions, but I prefer to roll my own, to be fair. I believe the less craft there is on PC, the less there is to break. And I hardly ever suffer breaks, and I use Timeshift as well to easily rollback if I ever need to.
Yes I go and will stick with my lightweight dwm
Yeah a lighter system is nice, alltho Garuda does not suffer from worse performance becouse of the bloat tho, unless you have an older computer. If you want something very light out of the box I would suggest you try InstantOS its a modern functional tiling desktop out of the box that takes about 250 mb ram on boot. Its pretty awsome very snappy, alltho I am a gamer and the game performance is pretty bad on it.
I use Garuda Cinnamon Lite... is the Best distro linux... thanks for the video...
I have a question for people using Garuda linux. I have 8GB RAM and intel i5-5th generation 2.2GB CPU are they enough to run Garuda properly ? (I'm only a normal user not a gamer or programmer) Thanks
You should be fine
@@OldTechBloke Thanks a lot, I'd like to know plz since I still don't have any experience with Linux system.
Is it OK to move from Win 10 to Garuda or I should first try other distros... Big Thanks again
Can I install it on paintium 4, 2gb ram, no graphics card?????. Please tell
No, don't do it
There are options for a lot more wallpapers offered at install
im using garuda XFCE ultimate and it so much faster than every linux ios i have used
Its Jan2023 Test driving Garuda Gnome, definitely not an ultimate edition, but then I'm just in the Discovery or Live option. My Test Driver seems like its leaving it up to me to install what I want or need. There is a Garuda Cinnamon because I narrowed my choices to 3, LMDE, AV mx XFCE, Garuda. I like all 3. I prefer Mint Desktop over Xfce. I'm only familiar w/xfce. Gnome desktop I'm assuming light, it is unfamiliar, not unpleasant, am really curious about Garuda Cinnamon & now AV mx but not XFCE. Its taken me forever to download all these distros. Lock down is over now. Revisit Garuda give a light version a spin. Looking forward to wiping windows off this laptop. I always enjoy your reviews, thank you.
8:39 6gb ram & 40gb hard drive space. I agree Garuda asks for quite a bit in resources.
The installer is heavy. That's why 6gb RAM.
I do believe that Garuda stay to Arch as *buntu stay to Debian or Fedora to RedHat, with other words this is arch made easy.
Of course , the gaming/mmedia out-of-the-box tweeks is very appealing for lasy people...(like me...)
About vlc, hmmm.... not fan, mpv rocks, and you have tons of GUI for ( xt7 it is written by a arch developer, in gambas3...) , also qmplay2 is nice , or ROMP is awesome.
anyway, plasma is awesome ( not your cup of tea, I know :D), so I got me e new ssd with garuda and I can say on real hw
zen make the diff., also i'm not a gamer but running cinelerra or davinci on garuda really bust the moove...
Ok ,ok they learn a lot from manjaro, so what?... anyway those garuda folks done a awesomw job, by bringing arch to the common herd .As for being bloathed or ram consumption... hmm I don't care , the HW is made to be used, I rather use a distro that takes half of my resources for working that give the same amount of HW just to run a realtime antivirus...
For what is worth you got another thumb from me, nice review.
PS:
Stay safe, there is a lot of crap going on out there...sadly...
I'm going to try the LXQT version on a really old desktop PC.
Hey OTB! I recently found out about a project I think you could cover in a future video!
It's called bedrock linux and it goes on top of your existing install and makes it something else entirely
Added! Although I've heard some pretty bad reports about it
@@OldTechBloke Thank you! I've never used it and I wanted to hear what you had to say on it. Happy computing!
All I can say is Wow! I think it thinks its a phone at some point. Not sure if I would use it ever. They did a good job but I am old school as well...
Thanks for the video...
LLAP
liked and subbed for my fellow boomer across the pond... 57 yr. old in St.Louis self starter tech Guru wannabe ;) ( cut my teeth on win 95 on up ) when I read their story and looked at the splash descriptions I got the feeling this could be a hit for the Windows users tired of the forced changes from Gates and friends but yeah not for core linux users
Thanks for the sub John
This is the distro I'm getting ready to migrate to, XFCE for the ancient laptop and Wayfire for the Desktop
Mantabb ya mbah 😘
i purchased a copy...will test
purchased?
If you purchased a copy, then youre doing it wrong.
Wow it comes with a flashlight
Marmite: yes! Garuda no! for me.
That's an accident. Just seen a movie about Garuda Airline. And now Garuda Linux 👍🤪
Question: interoperability. If you take a flash drive that was formatted under Windows 7 and plug it into a machine running Garuda Linux, will it automatically mount and bring up a file manager?
NOTE: This happens under Linux Mint 20.
No reason why not as it’s just mate
Arch with something for sure! What is all the Phone stuff going on?
EndeavourOS is my lazy way too. Like you OTB I still use my scripts and Eznix's guides. It is almost second nature now days... Lol
So will I use it, Most likely not, not my cup of tea as I am not a gamer. I like Salient OS to but will not use it for the same reason, not a gamer....
Stay safe and sorry about the Pub... :-(
Thanks for the video OTB!
LLAP
Cheers Bruce, yes I think we look at this in exactly the same way
Made for me
Does it support ARM like rpi4 and pinephone?
No its way to bloated anyway for such low end hardware.
@@fredrik2008 But manjaro also has many packages preinstalled, and there are such versions anyway
@OldTechBloke , if you are healthy, you don't have cardio-vascular problems or diabetes, you get enough exercise and you come outdoors sufficiently then you really don't have to be afraid of C-19, it is much more health-related than age-related (older people had more time to damage their bodies). Continued stress also is bad for your health. On a more cheerful topic, I use dwm these days. It works great and the CPU-load is noticeably lower than with KDE. I still like KDE as a DE but I don't see myself switch back to it.
Hi Peter, unfortunately things have gone from bad to worse this week. My mum has had three heart attacks in as many weeks even though she was a regular gym goer and never smoked or drank. She is in her 80s though. Worse yet, she caught COVID in hospital this week. Very worried
@@OldTechBloke I am sorry to hear that. Best of luck, mate. Spend as much time with her as you can.
Just like ubuntus life is over now soon this indian beast garuda linux will take over the linux society of performance ❤️🙏
Hello. Couldn't even install it on vm.... Well....
Buy a second hand laptop and install it there.
@@arkvsi8142 ohhh ..so stupid am I ... and you’ll buy me one ? Tks in advance 😀. I didn’t know I should buy a computer each time a distro doesn’t work correctly in vm 👍
@@neotwenty-nineBzH yes, you need one computer per existing Linux distro. Dual o triple and beyond boot + vm is not fair.
Scrcpy interfaces via USB to your Android phone.
Too many DEs. I wonder how long they will be able to maintain them! Even big guys like Manjaro can't handle so many official DEs. Their 'Ultimate' editions are already gone from the download page.
Yes just updated the review and noticed that
Why so bloated while it's configured for performance? Not my cup of tea, I like my Arch with only the software I need and use, and tweaked to my taste. Nevertheless, they have put a lot of work into it and they have done it very well.
Agree with you mate. It’s well done but I wouldn’t use it
Well the bloat does not translate to worse performance on a newer machine, game performance is not effected at all.
I like it, especially the built in btrfs timeshift backups. Alltho sadly the performance is better on other distros like arcolinux, if you want something good looking out of the box and fast hefftor linux based on arcolinux is mutch better. And Garuda has alot of bugs. And why does alot of youtubers use virtual machines for testing I dont get it, performance is worse and no better security it will still have a network connection, so its not safer from malware..
Because it’s just not practical to use hardware for every install and have to mess about with capture cards to record it. There really is little difference with a vm when you’re just taking a first look. Also, I do t want a new distro on my hardware every week
@@OldTechBloke Well on your hardware and on a wm is little difference it still takes up place on your hdd. Well I guess the the capture card argument is a good one I didnt think about that. Well I like to try distros on real hardware since you get a better feel about the drivers then, some wont even start since they use old kernels or do not install nvidia drivers on install. I try about 2 distros a week atleast on real hardware, its fun.
Looks nice, but to ultimate for me.
Great review. Not for me either. The Lite version is much better on the VM.
Am I the only guy who is watching it on garuda
Garuda Linux Ultimate Edition??? And what if PCLinuxOS is the other way around?
Garuda is a Sanskrit term for eagle
Looks like too much stuff I do not use or need. Might give it a try anyway.
I don't like it that Garuda uses the Zen-kernel, the Zen-kernel really is a mixed bag, some wins and some big losses. The Xanmod-kernel consistently performs better. See the Phoronix benchmarks.
Well it depends on the system, on my system zen kernel is way snappier then xanmod, both are really good tho, but I get mutch better performance with xanmod on Ubuntu then on Arch.
@@fredrik2008 It is possible. For me with gaming Xanmod definitely gives a better performance. I have not tried out linux-tkg yet. Avoid the Clear Linux kernel because that disables certain protections against Meltdown and Spectre for obvious reasons (created by Intel...).
I like Arch but I guess that I could try out MXLinux with the repositories for the latest kernel and drivers. I don't think that it would make much difference but if I get another SSD (when the prices return to normal) then I might try that out.
Do you know, Garuda is a mythical magical bird creature from hindu mythology....
No mate
@@OldTechBloke link here if u wish to know more abt Garuda... th-cam.com/video/IzoBMgF8V4A/w-d-xo.html
Reminds me of MX Linux on an Arch base. Not for me either. If I were to go with an easy Arch solution I’d stick with Manjaro. The limited repo of Garuda and the ‘try a little too hard’ approach overall put me off, that’s just my ever humble opinion, YMMV thanks for the review!
Cheers Steve
What do you mean limited repo? The repo is just for prebuilt binaries so you dont need to build every program from aur, saves alot of time. Otherwise you have acces to all software normally on arch and aur.
@@fredrik2008 Good point Fredrik, still not for me
I installed this os and TBH this one is very very bloated , not even the web browser is clean .
Yeah its a bit too mutch bloat in the browser, other then that its fine its mostly the stuff I install anyway.
It’s not bloated. It does have many thing pre installed but they do not run. And the ram is super low
ver very heavy Garuda OS, must have at least 6 gb ram. beautiful but unfeasible
I think that you may well have to accept that there are now two types of Arch users, people like yourself that do enjoy tinkering, adjusting etc, and others like myself, who like the 'power' of Arch but don't necessarily want to spend hours getting the OS into a usable state.
To me neither is wrong, each have their own uses and 'fan base', horses for courses and all that. I am quite happy with KDE Manjaro, it suits my needs just fine, has the power of Arch with a clean look of KDE
I don’t have to accept anything LD
Manjaro is not Arch.
@@Prof.SchulzeSternberg never said that
@@LDWilliams I never said that you said that. Relax, mate.
@@Prof.SchulzeSternberg it has Arch at its heart
Great os. Until you update and it crashes like a chinese airplane..
this is weird, for a system that supposed to be very responsive, efficient, and snappy it seems to be super laggy and slow, absolutely waisted potential :/
The reason being is because this Garuda version is made for higher Specifications
Like at lest 6 gigs of ram
But the CPU can have lower Specifications
For Accurate info go to grauda’s website
@@jordanrichmond6167 yeah right, I have been trying it on 8gb i3 laptop, 32gb ram intel i9 desktop none of which worked wit it ;)
@@ernon69 that's weird, it works fine on my 8gb .. g3900 processor and i even use it for mining the hell out of my GPUs .. no complaints so far
Watch it in 1.25x and thank me.
Indians 👇👇
Not convinced. I stick to Ubuntu Mate. I do not game on my Linux machine.
looks so bloated and messy for an arch distro
I agree
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I think you are feeling ashamed by taking the name of our country "india" where this beast is born.
aree bhai thand rkh
Linux distros has no borderies. Please stop involving Indian term in everything. But its proud feeling our India's contribution in Linux going up.
Look we indian can pronounce approx every English word and you English speaker can't even pronounce any Hindi word properly..
And that's why India is the second largest English speaking country.
Pointless review unless you put it on Metal and run some modern games on it, compared to SalientOS well I wouldnt bother I ahve ran many Linux os on metal trying the latest games and still Windows is No1, Linux is getting there but it aint there yet, as I say SalientOS is miles ahead of this one.
For gaming sailientOS is ok but they havent released a new version in months now. I tried most arch based distros for gaming and so far hefftor linux has been the fastest for games, or any arcolinux based distro.
I don't game and there's no point doing a quick review on metal - no advantages whatsoever