Thinking about my Linux installation, Garuda Linux. It's great, I mean really really good, but it's run by the type of Linux Elitists that look down on users like me and I don't feel particularly welcome or keen to become part of that community*. So I'm considering a hop to a new Distro.
I'm used to Arch distros now (RIP Antergos) and I really appreciate Rolling Releases so the first candidate that springs to mind is Manjaro Linux. It even has an unnofficial Gamer Edition "spin" (fork).
What's more, I could use Manjaro to obliterate that Windows partition that still exists on my SSD, preserving all the data in my Garuda Home directory and simply copy it over between the dual Linuxes. Then I delete Garuda and expand Manjaro across the whole 2TB SSD.
Two birds, one stone? 😃 Am suspicious, solutions are rarely this neat...🤔☺️
*Like the Fedi, the political attitudes of certain groups (Distros/Instances) tends to be something you find out after you've joined up. Distrowatch needs a checkbox for Linux Elitism 😁
@alto I really appreciate your perspectives, by the by. Fascinating stuff I never normally get access to. Sorry if I'm soundinf a bit negative; really just trying to ensure I'm covering all bases as I work toward a decision I can be happy with.
Void being distinct from the general Linux throng has advantages but it also means the pool of folks familiar with the bespoke systems is far smaller when things go wrong. But I will deffo take a look at it.
I'll take your points about Endeavour onboard too; someone who has actually used it. Remembered I did try it it last year and it only lost the Live USB battle to Garuda.
Well shit. I've been banging my head against the wall with this GPU switch from Nvidia to AMD. System tells me the most current Mesa is installed but there's no way it's working properly based on the performance I'm seeing. Tried reinstalling all packages which failed a bunch of times due to "pgp sigs" but finally succeeded and after a reboot nothing has changed. I guess I could try the "Pro" drivers.. I am thinking a fresh install is looking more likely tho. #Linux#Garuda#PC#Tech
Anyone knows how I can change the keyboard layout on my "decryption screen" ? I installed #Linux#Gardua but when I have to type my encryption key to decrypt my disk the keyboard layout is in qwerty and I use azerty.
I did not do that when I used #Debian before. It does that with #Garuda and #Manjaro so it may be an #Arch related issue ? 🤔
The #KDE Connect app to perform different functions between my laptop running #Garuda#Linux and #Android phone is pretty slick. The file transfer works flawlessly and I can mount my phone as a local drive over the network.
Still very much a baby #Linux user. Only just now finding out, with the whole Red Hat controversy, that not all distros are community run.
Might have to play some more when I get home after all. Red Hat has shown that "free and open source" doesn't mean anything when it's run by a company with a profit motive. Maybe someone can help me get #Garuda Dragonized look...less like Garuda Dragonized. The Mac-esque layout was such a bad choice.
Tried installing #Garuda again. I don't like the Dragonized DE so I went with Cinnamon and promptly remembered why I don't like it. It's so busted, still can't pin applications half the time and half of the remaining time, pinned applications open a copy of themselves that don't stack with the pin. Little things like this drive me nuts.
Fun with a broken Linux this morning. Apparently a Plymouth/SDDM update has rendered many Garuda Linux installs unable to boot beyond the "Loading Ramdisk" line at the very start of the boot process, not even allowing for command-line access. Snapshots don't load either; only entering Recovery Mode works.
The workaround for now is to edit grub to remove the SPLASH text from the start of the boot commands. This disables/skips Plymouth. Or installing Plymouth instead of Plymouth-git (don't forget to rebuild intramfs if you do this)(TIL -git versions of software are considersd bleeding edge; comparable to nightlies?).
A timely reminder that Linux can bork itself just as much as Windows can/does.
#Garuda#Sway - VERY nice! Feature-complete and easy to use for someone like me who is used to a floating window manager and DE.
There are mouse-driven graphical utilities for theming, power management, and more. #Laptop keyboard buttons work OOTB, #Pamac is here, it’s got a nice graphical app launcher, and it’s got gesture support. There’s also a well-stocked cheat sheet, but it’s a bit buried in config folders.
Looking forward to spending some time here learning about TWMs.
The benefits of using Linux over Windows are obvious; a truly Free and Private Operating systems that has zero interest in knowing who you are or profiting from that knowledge: an operating system designed to be responsive to your needs first and foremost, and to stay out of your way when you need it to: a system built upon the humanistic principles of free and open source software but that can still handle closed-source 'binary blobs' if you need it to.
Classically, every time I've tried Linux before (this is my fourth go at it) I've kept Windows around because, good as it was, Linux still had weaknesses. For me those centred mainly around Gaming, a vital part of my recreational life and one I need to keep around.
Since installing Garuda's Gaming edition of Linux last week I haven't logged into Windows even once, which has taken me by surprise even as familiar with Linux as I am. Valve's Proton and the gaming scene are so much more developed than last I looked and while there will be incompatible titles out there I feel I can expect more to work than ever before.
I implemented a complicated little plan to dual boot my drive...but now I find I'm wondering if I need to keep Windows around in any form. Garuda is just so good and so far it hasn't failed to do anything I've asked of it. Oh, I've plenty to learn yet and I've seen some inconsistent behaviour from it....but that's my exact experience of Windows as well.
As part of the installation process I cloned my original Windows drive to set up this new larger one, so the original drive is still around should I need Windows again. It's theoretically possible to wipe Windows from this one and move/enlarge the existing Linux partition-cluster to take the whole drive but even should that fail and I have to wipe and restart afresh it's not the end of the world. 🤔
Lots to think about but the prospect of finally being able to extricate myself entirely from the Windows ecosystem is a wonderful feeling already. #Linux#Garuda#Gaming#Windows
I have a clear seperation between Linux and Windows.
Linux is my system for all things which aren't gaming.
For gaming i have my windows 11 because a) i don't want to have Software as Steam on my privacy friendly linux system and b) i'm a big fan of newest graphic features as Raytracing or Direct Storage. And newest graphic features comes to Windows first.