Garuda Linux on the X1 Carbon

Questionably one of the best experiences I have had

Perhaps I have been drinking the Canonical Kool-Aid for far too long or maybe it was just because I have had too many years working with Debian before Ubuntu which makes it hard for me to switch to a non-derivative distro on my main workstation. There’s something to be said about familiarity and just in general being able to do things “intuitively”. So when I discovered this amazing distro called Garuda Linux and even though I have already been familiarized with vanilla Arch running on some of my side workstations for years, I was a bit reluctant to switch my daily driver to it.

However, since I have had a System 76 Lemur Pro as my daily driver for close to a year now, My 6th gen Lenovo X1 Carbon has become my secondary mobile workstation that was due for a clean up. So I took the opportunity to finally give Garuda a real run for its money and this time, I decided to go with the Gnome variant because no matter how many times I tried to give KDE or the other DEs a try, I somehow always end up coming back to Gnome.

Why Garuda?

There are plenty out there covering why Garuda is amazing but let me try to summarize my own perspective in the quickest way possible:

• Everything just WORKS right out of the box!