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Garuda Linux is a rolling distribution based on the Arch Linux operating system. Unlike Arch Linux, Garuda Linux comes with a graphical installer (Calamares) for easy installation, and other advanced graphical tools for managing your system. Garuda is a performance-oriented distro with many performance enhancing tweaks. Some of the many tweaks include using zram, a performance CPU governor, along with custom memory management software. Garuda Linux has striven to provide system stability by including the Timeshift backup utility.
DesktopCinnamon, GNOME, Hyprland, i3, KDE Plasma, Mokka, Sway, Wayfire, Xfce
CategoryDesktop, Live Medium
Based onArch
OriginGermany
Architecturex86_64
Package managerPacman
Init systemsystemd
FilesystemBtrfs, ext4, JFS, XFS
Release modelRolling
StatusActive
InstallationCalamares