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Minimum requirements
30 GB storage space
4 GB RAM
64-bit system
Recommended requirements
- 40 GB storage space
- 8 GB RAM
- Video card with OpenGL 3.3 or better
- Our distro is optimized for performance on real hardware. Installing in virtual machines is not recommended as it might result in a bad experience!
- We sacrifice extra RAM to improve the responsiveness of the system.
- We believe in the principle "unused RAM is wasted RAM".
- More information on some common myths concerning RAM usage
- If you want to know how to install & setup Garuda Linux watch this short tutorial
- We do not recommend the usage of Snap or Flatpak for software installation.
Live session login details
- Username: garuda
- Password: garuda
Downloads
Garuda KDE Dr460nized
The dr460nized editions of Garuda Linux offer a dark, blurry and fully immersive Plasma experience. The workflow is mac-alike with the appmenu baked right into the top bar. 🐉
Garuda Xfce
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment well known for being a rock-solid & stable. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
Garuda Gnome
GNOME is a modern desktop environment which is both clean and beautiful. It is focused on ease of use. GNOME edition uses Prime render offloading for Optimus laptops.
Garuda LXQT-Kwin
LXQt is a lightweight Qt desktop environment that does not get in your way. Its focus lays on being a lightweight, lag free desktop with modern look and feel.
Garuda Wayfire
Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.
Garuda Qtile
Qtile is a dynamic extensible window manager which is easy to customize. Garuda Qtile uses jgmenu which makes it very easy and convenient to launch applications without remembering key bindings.
Garuda BSPWM
BSPWM is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree. It only responds to X events and the messages it receives on a dedicated socket.
Garuda i3WM
i3-wm is a lightweight window manager that is operated exclusively with the keyboard. Our version has a simple and easy configuration with LXappearance to handle GTK themes. We do ship the configuration with an easy cheat sheet to get you started. Due to its light resources, it has a really small memory footprint.
Garuda Sway
Garuda Sway edition ships with a completed configuration with easy to use keybindings and a cheat-sheet to help you get started. Following the Nord color scheme it is both good to look at and just as fast utilising the best of Wayland native alternatives to offer a seamless transition to the Wayland Compositor.
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