mhbell Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 (edited) My review of Garuda Linux with Cinnamon DE Part 2 of 2. In part one I discussed Garuda Linux with the KDE Plasma DE. With some of my likes and dislikes. I have to say it is a tossup between The KDE and Cinnamon DE’s. Both distro’s have their good and bad points. I am impressed with the job that the Garuda devs have done in the past couple of years with Garuda. I am using the cinnamon version and Libre office as I write this. I’ll copy and paste to the forum when I am done. There are a few things that are missing in garudas cinnamon compared to Mint’s cinnamon. No software manager in the control center. I could install pamac or octopi, But I am finding pacman and yay does a fast excellent job of downloading software as long as you know the name of software that you are looking for. I copied my Thunderbird and Variety from mint to the home directory of garuda so that I have all of my settings. I downloaded Firefox and Google Chrome and sync-ed both of them. When I downloaded libre office I found that I could not read the menus or what was on the tool bars. I was using a light theme. So I downloaded and installed “Only Office” and found it was the same. I switched to a Darker them and all is OK. I will say the darker theme is easier on the eyes. In the theme settings there was a place to install the window buttons on the right side, which I prefer. I also discovered that the firedragon browser is indeed a modified firefox. I managed to get it to sync and all is good. So far I’m pleased with this distro with the cinnamon DE. It is fast and very stable. I’ve only used it for a couple of hours and will find more quirks and things I don’t like as time goes on. I’ll keep the forum posted as I progress. Mel see screen shot below of desktop Edited September 20, 2023 by mhbell spelling 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 It's cool to hear about but maybe combine some posts as multiple ones arent really needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhbell Posted September 20, 2023 Author Share Posted September 20, 2023 3 minutes ago, securitybreach said: It's cool to hear about but maybe combine some posts as multiple ones arent really needed. Will do was not surew how to do that. Mel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 No worries, just for next time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhbell Posted September 23, 2023 Author Share Posted September 23, 2023 Well I lost my desktop somehow. When I click on it all I get is a empty folder, Blank, Nada. So I will scrap it for now and install Debian KDE Plasma in it's place. as I said befor it has been several years since I last used a KDE DE. Mel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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