Thursday, March 5, 2026

Installing GURUDA Linux

GARUDA Linux was one distribution I could not install in my NUC.
It is ARCH based and I Love Octapi Package Manager.
It is a Gamer Linux.
Its KDE Image is 3.3GB and it does need at least 30GB in the /root partition.
I tried 20GB and failed.
By the way, it uses only Btrfs file system only.
 I did not have partiion that big and most I had was my major DEBIAN GNOME of 25GB. I sacrificed /home partition, /var and /opt but kept  only /boot partition.
It immediately UPDATED which included 505 files. Immediately after, installed AbiWord, Audacity and BlueFish using Octapi.
It correctly configured my GRUB Boot Loader. However, it did not boot REBORN OS. I  going to reinstall it.
For the first time I have there KDE desktops. The others are KDE Neon User and BlueStar Linux.
I have 2 GNOME Desktops to match.
Debian GNOME 
Reborn GNOME 
Linux Mint Cinnamon.
Well everybody is suppprting KDE and I have to put up with that.
I downloaded GNOME Image and it is installable.
I am going to try install a few games which I do not have with other systems.

It needs 4GB RAM, I think minimum 16GB if one wants to play games. It supports NVIDIA graphic cards by default.