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What's the selling point of this distro, vs any other? I dont see it.
by gegtik 6y ago
What's the selling point of this distro, vs any other? I dont see it.
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- jvzr 6y agoAFAIK it comes built-in as a slightly customized Arch (using regular Arch repos, plus one of their own) with Btrfs as default FS, Pipewire as default sound system, and many Kernel patches oriented towards "performance". They have an edition more suited towards gaming, and also one with a very customized KDE desktop. It is very similar to Endeavour and Reborn, although with the aforementioned tweaks
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoApparently an optimised, rather 'riced' kernel for gaming setups. Default filesystem BTRFS with zstd compression, integrated with snapshotting and GRUB. So you can easily roll back from a botched upgrade, straight from GRUB. Which could be handy since it's based on Arch.
- stragies 6y agoThe default Garuda GRUB options disable all CPU/GPU level security patches against Meltdown, Spectre etc. by running with "mitigations=off". That is playing with fire for anything operating on data you'd consider non-public, imo.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoI noticed that, and said so in another post... edit: Think of cars on a racetrack. Street worthiness considered ballast...ROAAARRRR!
- Saint_Genet 6y agoA ddg site search of "cve" returns zero hits.
- VRay 6y agoI don't get it, are you saying spectre/meltdown aren't dangerous?
- screamingninja 6y agohttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5715 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5715 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5754 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5754 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3639 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3639 > A ddg site search of "cve" returns zero hits. What was your search query?
- Saint_Genet 6y agoI think I expressed myself poorly, a search of the Garuda site has zero hits on the term cve.
- jonathonf 6y agoThere is an _option_ to do this, it is _not_ the default.
- stragies 6y agoThe screenshot in their picture gallery has it checked, so I assumed, that was the default setting
- jonathonf 6y agoI guess the Garuda Boot Options screenshot shows the options in operation: https://garudalinux.org/images/garuda/ss/garuda-boot-options.png https://garudalinux.org/images/garuda/ss/garuda-boot-options... I'm not sure whether this is misleading or not given the nature of illustrative screenshots, e.g. the package management one shows VLC installed but not Firefox: https://garudalinux.org/images/garuda/ss/pamac.png https://garudalinux.org/images/garuda/ss/pamac.png
- rndgermandude 6y agoIs it really so much worse, outright playing with fire? There are only few things running untrusted code on a typical end-user system, most notably the browsers executing javascript. Now that would be attack-able. But then again, it seems unlikely that anybody would launch broadly deployed attacks, as the vast majority of systems would run with mitigations on, so it's just not worth the trouble considering that and considering that you also have to get lucky to actually extract something valuable (and recognize it is valuable). On top of that, browsers also bring a bunch of mitigations that make it harder to exploit these bugs even if system mitigations are disabled. I'm personally not very concerned about anybody trying to attack me with spectre/meltdown class bugs that can be and are usually mitigated, even with mitigations disabled on my system. If somebody wanted to attack me, either at random (broad attack), or targeting me specifically, they'd have far better ways and targets to try first than hoping I'd visit their website and run without mitigations enabled and have something valuable in my memory. This is different if it's a shared system, like cloud machines/shared hosting, where this is an class of bugs is far more of a concern. And if you know or have reason to suspect you're a specific target, then you might err on the side of caution as well.
- acct776 6y agoThis is an outdated take. These attacks are being done algorithmically, automatically now.
- rndgermandude 6y ago{citation needed} Seriously, I haven't seen any news of these attacks being used against end-user systems, either broadly or targeted. Have some links?
- unsungNovelty 6y agoGaruda is meant to fill the void between Arch Linux and Manjaro Linux. Trying to be closer to Arch by having only one extra repo than Arch linux compared to 3 repos (Stable, testing, unstable? ) in Manjaro. Some tools shown are of Manjaro origin. Like Pamac & Garuda Settings Manager. Context: I am hearing about Garuda Linux in Manjaro forum where I presume "the developer" talked about it in the "Other OS" discussion section. With the deteriorating community relations Manjaro has been having with their community and with some of the Manjaro folks like old time users/volunteers moving to Garuda because of it, Garuda Linux has a place and an opportunity at hand to outshine Manjaro. If they keep their community relationships in check I guess.
- arminiusreturns 6y agoWhat relations deterioration are yoi talking about? The big thing was a while ago now and I havent heard any new drama, what did I miss?
- bdefore 6y agoI'm unaware of deteriorating community relations with Manjaro. Care to elaborate?
- freedomben 6y agoI don't know the deets, but the founder did some stuff with funds (commingling with personal funds?) that people think was messed up. It's causing a lot of tension in the community. I hope they get through it. Manjaro is my goto for my Pinebook Pro.
- CameronNemo 6y agoEww. The Manjaro arm64 kernel is hacked up and very far from vanilla/mainline Linux. A hot mess if I have ever seen one.
- freedomben 6y agoAssuming what you're saying is true (I have no reason not to believe it), I do of course hope that gets corrected, but in the mean time I'm glad they at least got something to work. I tried quite a few other options before Manjaro and all of them had some kind of sharp edge. It may be that a hacked up kernel is what is needed right now to make it work well. I get 6x the battery life than I did before (seriously), and updates don't totally break my system. Two pretty nice features :-D
- pkulak 6y agoOpinionated Arch flavor? Looks kinda cool since it lines up very closely with the decisions I make when I install Arch.
- forgotmypw17 6y agoOne of the special things about Garudas is that they are born flying. In other words, a flying Garuda adult typically gives birth to a baby Garuda mid-air, while flying, and the newborn already knows how to fly and flies on.