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by KabirKwatra 1960 days ago
I use Garuda Linux on my main machine, but there are some annoying bugs. I dont know if it's the theme or kde, but after a window has been open for a long time the window buttons don't show the colors. Theres also weird scaling with text in window borders and the titles in latte pick from arbitrary instances of the application.
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unsungNovelty 1960 days ago
Have you tried posting an issue on their forums? New Linux Distros have a great amount of patience to users. And also the first class support in their own official forums.
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stragies 1960 days ago
Make sure, you properly backup your HOME-Dir, or make sure to not enable HiDPI. Garuda has a bug, where it deletes your Data if you go messing with the wrong appearance settings: https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/after-deactivate-hidpi-my-ho...
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jonathonf 1960 days ago
It doesn't make the original bug less severe, but it was resolved under an hour after it was reported.
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stragies 1960 days ago
Oh, good to know, thanks for replying!

Makes you wonder about the underlying plumbing though, if setting an GUI appearance option can lead to data loss in the first place.

Is there a writeup/summary somewhere that explains "the lessons learned"? Otherwise I'd kind-of start to worry about what could happen, if ... say ... I change the Bluetooth output codec, or some other other UI details.

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jonathonf 1960 days ago
> Is there a writeup/summary somewhere that explains "the lessons learned"?

Not that I'm aware of, but I'm sure you could check the GitLab commits and/or ask on their forum if you're interested.

This is a young project (just under a year old) with developers who do this for fun. The developers are going to keep making changes that maintain the fun they have during development.

Mistakes will be made. Things will break. Lessons will be learned. This isn't a decades-old mature distro, so if you're expecting something absolutely bullet-proof then Garuda currently isn't it.

However, I will say that the pace of improvement is pretty stunning. Their direction and what they have achieved in a short space of time is pretty impressive - not just within the distro itself but the surrounding OOB features and infrastructure like ChaoticAUR (prebuilt AUR packages), secure password management (Bitwarden), dotfile sync (NextCloud), a pastebin service for log output (Privatebin), ...

Is it perfect? No. Is it for everyone? No. It is what it is, and doesn't try to be anything else, and I kind of like that approach.

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stragies 1959 days ago
All fine and well, but then the Webpage should perhaps tone down a bit on the flashy images, and perhaps mention more prominently, that this iron is still glowing hot on the forge, and basically a tinkering environment for the time being.
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