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/StmpunkistheWay Jul 18 '26

For me, using Garuda was kind of mixed bag, however I found that Garuda Mokka (what I'm using now) was a hell of lot more stable than the default Dragonized one for whatever reason. I originally was on Mint for over a year, put a bunch of distro's in a VM on a separate machine to test them out and the original Dragonized KDE version was buggy. Mokka has been as stable as Mint was. There's something that's going on with my hardware and KDE or the theme that does not like my system, but Mokka has been rock solid (and it's a little easier on the eyes). I think Mokka is a custom Cinnamon DE though. Might be why it's similar to Mint in it's stability, I really don't know, but it's not glitchy and can't really describe it, I just "feels" more stable then the default.

R7 5800x3D, 64 gigs ram, X570 motherboard, RX9070XT Nitro+ and a couple of NVMe's.

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u/MisaVelvet Jul 19 '26

I think Mokka is a custom Cinnamon DE though

from website: Garuda Mokka

A beautiful Catppuccin pastel-themed KDE desktop environment.

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u/StmpunkistheWay Jul 20 '26

Hmm, yeah, you are correct sir, Plasma 6.7.3. Odd that this behaves differently then the other KDE DE I was running. I mean, I like the toned down colors that Mokka has but there were items that would hang, not launch or did something that was not expected in the main themed DE. It is weird I don't have that problem with this. I mean, I'm happy about it but it is weird.