We are happy to release the brand new "Bird of Prey" release on April 28, 2024! This release brings forth a fully integrated and polished plasma 6.0 experience, a focus on many usability improvements and also, of course, the full range of rolling-release improvements from the Garuda Team and Arch Linux upstream.

We make the installation process simple by using the Calamares installer, which is both fast and easy to use.

With handpicked desktop themes, appealing shell look and beautiful blur effects out of the box, Garuda Linux never lets you down.

BTRFS is a modern, Copy-on-Write (CoW) filesystem for Linux, aimed at implementing advanced features while also focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration. We use automatic snapshots out of the box. While being a rolling release distro, our goal is to ensure that your system will not be left in an unbootable state after a problematic update. The BTRFS filesystem integrated with Snapper will backup the system configuration before each update. You can access recent snapshots directly from GRUB*

We provide a variety of GUI tools that make maintaining and configuring your system to your liking a much easier and less time consuming task. Ranging from Garuda Assistant, an application for configuring or performing common actions, to Snapper-Tools, a home-grown snapper management GUI. Because no step should be too far for the best experience.

Garuda uses Chaotic-AUR as an extra repository, featuring one of the bigger precompiled software lists out there out of the box. Among the selection of software are a lot of emulators, kernels, games, themes and other commonly used tools - over 3800 extra packages!

We ship our own browser "FireDragon", which is forked from the excellent Floorp browser. Amongst its features are privacy-friendly defaults, performance settings for fast Web and Video experiences and a small collection of useful addons. The default search engine is the non-logging SearX instance we host on our server for better privacy.