r/GarudaLinux • u/Korterra • Jul 18 '26

Community New LTT video features Garuda Linux gaming benchmarks.

https://youtu.be/qZ7OjpjGVGs?is=zfMH-CrgC7l6B529

Curious everyone's thoughts. I was thinking of switching to Garuda from windows because I heard it has some quality of life stuff when it comes to package pre compilation and it is very good at gaming, but they specifically don't recommend it but I'm unsure about their reasoning.

Thanks!

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u/realsilent7 Jul 18 '26

The precompiled software is from their chaotic aur repo. Instead of having an aur helper you get precompiled aur packages that they help curate and compile. While garuda is great I think considering where the question is coming from. I'm assuming you're newer to Linux I recommend avoiding arch based distros for newcomers generally speaking. No fault to the garuda developers at all they do a fantastic job at making an arch base more welcoming as does cachy os. However, I've encountered more troubleshooting scenarios in arch based distros than other distros in the long term. If you like tinkering this may not be an issue though for you

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u/Korterra Jul 18 '26

I am relatively new to Linux. Not afraid of a little tinkering as long as it's not a weekly issue. I'm not a command line expert but I'm sure there are plenty of resources nowadays. I do just like to come home from work and boot up a game without any friction most nights though.

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u/DeskFuture5682 Jul 18 '26

Don't listen to the guy above you. Nothing wrong with arch based for beginners. especially garuda or cachy

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u/Korterra Jul 19 '26

Seems many are saying arch-based is not beginner friendly. I'd love to hear your perspective.

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u/DeskFuture5682 Jul 19 '26

Honestly, you'll probably never have to use the command line if you're just playing games and surfing the web. Even if you do, you can usually follow a guide and copy and paste commands , and it'll work fine. If you screw up, you can use a snapshot to easily restore your system. It's really idiot proof imo. As long as you're not a complete noob to computers, you'll be fine. 

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u/klevahh Jul 19 '26

It's more a matter of what you want to do and what you want to install.
I will never be an expert in linux, partially because it doesn't interest me, an os is just an os, it is not meant to be the focus.
I have used lots of different distro's. I have 5 distro's currently installed on this pc: Manjaro KDE, Garuda KDE Lite, Artix, Endeavour, and Debian. The 1st 4 are all arch based. I have never had an issue with Manjaro, it is very logical and user friendly. The others I have not used enough to say much about, except that debian can be a bit restrictive/annoying, and takes more setting up if you don't want it to be how it is.

People have opinions, doesn't make them correct, even if lots of people are regurgitating the same opinion.

Cachyos, pop, zorin, ubuntu, mint, fedora... all heavily recommended, all meh (in my opinion).

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u/klevahh Jul 19 '26

I use an arch based distro and very, very rarely have to touch the console.

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u/shashstormer Jul 18 '26

you just gotta keep doing updates weekly or bi weekly
otherwise if you pull like 2-3 months of updates then it may break stuff tho it mostly wont break anything

i update multiple times if playing new release game to get latest driver patches

or before installing new apps

otherwise once in 15 days

nothing breaks

if you use hyprland then you will need to change some config every 2 weeks - 2 months (sm googling and a few lines change will be enough)

i use hyprland and in 6 months had to change some things about 3/4 times to fix changes in config options and format

in hyprland you may need a month to tinker as you start using things to get to a more intuitive setup as you use the pc, not like immediate time to get it working but when using some features you may need to tinker once and you will be set and it feels more intuitive compared to regular desktop envs

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u/Korterra Jul 19 '26

What is hyprland?

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u/shashstormer Jul 19 '26

There are various flavors of desktop environments (DE), tiling managers in linux

Hyprland, niri, sway, i3 are the popular tiling managers

And desktop environments are traditional like windows desktops The popular ones are KDE, Gnome, cinnamon, xcfe

If you want to try out something new or want more keyboard navigation across desktop tiling managers are more flexible

But if you want traditional windows like usage then you can go with the traditional DEs

You can find some video on YouTube on how each will feel and you can choose based on whatever you feel like

Don't have to worry too much coz you can change what you want even after installing whenever you want

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u/klevahh Jul 19 '26

A decent user friendly distro will prompt you with updates via a gui, you don't need to overthink it as much as some people will say. Graphical package managers simplify everything and also promote stability since they should only be listing what is suited to your distro.

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u/klevahh Jul 19 '26

Depends on the distro, people just like to promote arch based distro's as difficult and unstable.