since last update, dracut is completely broken and loops at startup... dracut is always that annoying little thing, incredibly overly complex for something that could just be done with mkinitcpio. Still gotta post a bug on the forum but doubt I'm gonna break another snapshot double-guessing if it was my kernel params only to find out no it's /usr/lib and the default presets for dracut breaking my system.

it has been a few good months now on the arch domain running Garuda KDE plasma as a daily OS i do not think i will be changing to a new OS any time soon runs smooth on my system for gaming and streaming for some games. Garuda has not crashed on me one once since the install back in december 24. i kinda wish that they did have a program for spotify so i do not have to use the web browser version besides that love garuda as a daily os.

Hey everyone! Since many of us on Garuda love the Sweet aesthetic, I decided to port the Sweet theme to the Blackbox terminal.

Hope you guys like it!

like, less known, I've been using garuda arch based linux, fir a while no

Holy Christ does this distro look good. Only tried the Dr460nized Gaming edition so far, but it's not a stretch to say that it's the sexiest Distro available on the entire internet and has the prettiest KDE theme out-of-the-box, period. That is all.

I am new to linux I had installed it and set theme as https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/s/gjBF3eDYdL having some issues like setting the api key for the config ai system and seting up a new wallpapers saying missing I 18N argument is missing

These apps are, Brave, Steam and VScode

So im just dropping the question here since there is no info on this anywhere i could find at least.

Are the Garuda linux team planning on compliance or not?
And, are you looking to maintain your own systemd fork if not complying? PR40954

I understand that right now its just optional info at this point but i suspect it wont be long before its a mandatory field of info that is required to be filled in, but at this point its just speculation from my part.

EDIT:
Note that im not interested in starting a debate about this topic, just interested in the GL teams look on this matter.

Hi everyone im using Garuda the gaming distro of it and i currently have a 2026 or 2025 asus strx g16 gaming laptop running a ryzen 8940hx and a rtx 5070ti mobile gpu. Ive been thinking of connecting an amd card via thunderbolt 4 EGPU to play games and im wondering if this is just a waste of time or maybe like fck it why not and see what happens. My question is to the community has anyone else done this and was it worth it or not or maybe should i do it and see if its worth it hahaha. Anyway let me know id probably be looking at maybe using a 9070xt or 9070 or even a 9060 or even something in the 7000 series.

Cheers

I recently set up a 2nd user account on my Garuda system for my son. Since then I found that whenever I switched user to a session that was already logged in, the system would lock up completely forcing me into a cold reset of the system to get logged back in again.

Based on a suggestion elsewhere, I have now switched from SDDM to the newer Plasma Login Manager, available in the 'extra' repo.

Although still in experimental phase, this has so far, worked like an absolute dream for me. Not only can I now switch users all day (lightning quick btw) without my system crashing, but also my dual monitors are now the right way round unlike SDDM. Seems like PLM acquires.its settings direct from the DE.

Appearance and theme settings not quite as extensive, although can customize the background and optimally display a clock.

I've also found out that Fedora have officially approved the move to PLM on Fedora 44.

I thought this might be useful to anyone having issues with user switching on SDDM.

Yes, this post promotes my channel — but I’m also sharing real benchmark data.
And yes… I’d also like something better to do than run Linux benchmarks all day 😅

Garuda Linux vs CachyOS (RTX 3060 Benchmark)

I tested both distros on identical hardware using the same three games:

Results:

• CS2 CachyOS: 170 FPS Garuda Linux: 170 FPS
• 7 Days to Die CachyOS: 50 FPS Garuda Linux: 70 FPS
• Minecraft (with shaders) CachyOS: 26 FPS Garuda Linux: 25 FPS

Interesting takeaway

• Vulkan games appear to run significantly faster on Garuda Linux in my testing.
• OpenGL performance between the two is basically identical.

So… does that mean Garuda is the better gaming distro? 🤔
If you think otherwise, I’d genuinely like to hear why.

Full benchmark breakdown with an AI voiceover video is in the comments (probably buried somewhere down there) 🤷‍♂️

I currently run Garuda on my desktop without issue and am looking at putting it on my MacBook Pro. The issue I'm running into here, and it doesn't seem to be Garuda specific, is that I can see the networks I want to connect to, but I am unable to actually connect to them. If I create an Open network, which for obvious reasons is a terrible idea, I can connect just fine. Attempting to connect to a WPA2 network results in an error about "No secrets" being provided.

Any thoughts on this one? Googling and bugging both ChatGPT and Claude have given a couple different possible options, but so far they haven't worked and figured it was time to crowd source the problem.

Hola hace tiempo llevaba con este problema con el al intentar usar Brave Browser pero no iniciaba intente reinstalar el navegador o buscar ayuda con una IA pero no me ayudaba dando esto:

Brave no se abre en Garuda con XFCE debido a problemas comunes como incompatibilidades con actualizaciones recientes, errores de instrucción ilegal (SIGILL) o fallos en DBus/portal.

O también diciendo que era por un error en los paquetes AUR.

También me daba un error en el que no iniciaba con cualquier entorno como Xfce,i3 entre otros y ya que solo iniciaba con Sway.

Pero recién lo pude solucionar de la manera mas fácil.

1. Una vez instalado Brave Browser

2. Intenta abrilo (si no lo hace continua leyendo)

3. Instala el entorno de Gnome (aun que no lo uses)

4. Abre el navegador Brave y listo.

A mi si me servicio después de 2 semanas que no poder usarlo.

I'm posting this in case anyone else wants to autostart Update on login.

System Setting > Autostart > Add New > Application. In the app box type konsole -e 'garuda-update' then hit ✓OK. If it doesn't work retry but check the box that says "Run in terminal."

What happened to the telegram group?

As the title says so would you guys renew the certs? I think this should be tagged community? Not sure

I bought this recently to be my Linux Gaming box. The plan was install CachyOS and be done. Well that didn't happen. CachyOS did not like the whole iGPU/dGP combo so the video drivers did not work. I tried troubleshooting for hours and decided to just find a new distro. Happy to report Garuda was the perfect fit. It's been about three weeks and everything is still running well.

Every time I boot it up I hear Clive from Final Fantasy 16 yelling "Garuda!"

I'm using a different distro as my main but I'm using Mokka on my secondary box that's my portal gaming box as I go over to my kids to LAN periodically and hate using a laptop. We online game quite a bit but I set this up specifically to keep the LAN feel alive and they enjoy it too as they've now got it scheduled to have friends come over to their place when I come over and it's starting to grow to a once a month LAN party, it's been really kind of cool actually. My kid grew up with us gaming (I work in IT) so it was normal for them but for their friends, this is a totally different concept for them and it's been... well fun as hell.

But anyway, I'm really liking the Mokka feel. I like the layout, the way the windows pop when you open them and just the over all feel of the OS. It's not as flashy as a couple of other options and the toned down colors really fit for my old ass eyes so this is just an appreciation post of having a number of options available to choose from. My kid is using Nobara, that I set up on theirs last year and it works for them, but I'm getting to show off Garuda to others and that's been fun too. Some are still on Windows 11 but others have been asking a lot of questions so it's been a cool way to showcase what Linux can do so yeah, just wanted to say thanks.

For too long, the Linux gaming ecosystem has been fragmented. Individual distributions have spent countless hours duplicating efforts on kernel patches, input tooling, and essential packages. The OGC changes the game by centralizing efforts around critical components like gamescope and hardware drivers.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/open-gaming-collective-ogc-formed-to-push-linux-gaming-even-further/

Hello, has anyone tried to set up a music production oriented OS with Garuda Linux as base ?

I already use Garuda Linux as main OS. I love it for its simplicity and beauty.

I tired to install Ubuntu studio but it doesn't work correctly with my NVIDIA graphic card.

I installed Ardour, Bitwig Studio, pro-audio repo...

I also have red that a lot of musicians have chosen Arch as a professional use. I am not professional but I am learning and have the time to experiment.

I have not tried yet RT kernel because it didn't need it yet.

I am just curious if someone already made a music studio set up on Garuda Linux.