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  • Thankfully Garuda takes care of all of this because I'm a moron. Would recommend for noobs.

    • Thx, will look into it.

      • Only problem is it runs pretty heavy as it focuses on being a modern distro for gaming.

        • Nah, it's literally just Arch Linux with the tweaked Linux zen-kernel, a crap ton of eye candy and a few GUI tools.
          \ You could use the zen-kernel on a plain Arch base add their GUI tools (likely just by adding their repo to pacman.conf) and likely achieve better results/performance because you're not using resources on the flashy desktop effects and background processes instead having more available for the game.
          \ Better yet, you could start with Garuda and strip it down and disable much of the resource heavy effects and achieve the same thing more or less.

          • I like that it takes automatic backups of my important stuff with btrfs because I'm too lazy to do it myself. I think that's the main reason it runs heavier. Probably better to do it your way if you know what you're doing.

            • No, it has nothing to do with BTRFS.
              \ BTRFS is barely slower than EXT4; you wouldn't even notice the difference.
              \ I use BTRFS on Arch with a plain KDE plasma desktop and it has no such slowdown experienced with the Garuda equivalent.
              \ I believe it's because they enable a bunch of resource heavy effects, such as wobbly windows and have a few extra background processes; things not enabled or included in a plain Arch install by default.

    • When windows irritates me enough to switch main system will check this out. Thanks.

      Put mint on an old laptop for a secondary work computer. Was impressed with how dummy proof it was. Will keep Garuda in mind.

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