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Hi peeps, I've just done the transition and removed Windows and chose Garuda to be my flavor after having tried a lot of other ones first. Does anyone have any tips or must to-do's right out of the box after a fresh install?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hiya, tbh I don't think there's much to do besides installing specific software that your require out of the box, I think garuda is basically plug and play so not much fiddling to do, which version of garuda you got ? I think even the ones like the qtile versions come with mostly everything ready to go but I'm not sure. Myself I'm used the sway flavor but removed almost everything sway related and replaced it with hyprland and there was not much to do, also remember that if you are really newbie you can use the garuda assistant to install software from a gui

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Went with the Gaming one, just to have everything out of the box. I'll remove whatever i consider 'bloat'. So far so good!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree with top comment. The point of Garudo is to be usable out of the box. Only thing left to do is install software, games and optionally tools to manage Proton/Wine versions. To summarize: Steam + ProtonUp-Qt (to download protonGE for Steam), Heroic Launcher for Epic+GOG games and/or Lutris/Bottles for everything else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fantastic choice.

I'm in Garuda for over a year now and never looked back!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Welcome to Garuda. First change the icons if you don't like them.

I would just look around and read about Garuda. Not much else tbh. It just works