Garuda linux boots superfast on my laptop, is very userfriendly both in daily work and maintenance. You can find and install a vast amount of software and apps. It is stable and aesthetically pleasing.
Based on our record, Garuda Linux seems to be a lot more popular than Salient OS. While we know about 94 links to Garuda Linux, we've tracked only 1 mention of Salient OS. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
If you're looking into gaming specifically, I can heartily recommend SalientOS - I've been using it near exclusively for over a year and loving every moment. Unfortunately there's damned near no community around it other than the vaguely active Discord. The maintainer, Silent Robot, is super-helpful and usually responds to questions quite rapidly. Source: over 2 years ago
I'd suggest trying Nobara and/or Garuda - both are absolutely easymode to install from a USB stick, and are specifically configured for gaming, but have a pretty different look and feel. Nobara is a very plain, kind of old fashioned, plain feeling UI (it rather reminds me of Windows 2000 in some ways, although it's much more advanced of course) while Garuda showcases just how fancy your desktop can look. Source: 10 months ago
Garuda (Arch based, use a Desktop environment with small memory prints like XFCE or lxqt). Source: 11 months ago
Personally, I feel like rolling release distros 'should' include a properly configured (GRUB-)Btrfs+Timeshit/Snapper by default. This will enable the user to rollback to a working system whenever a breakage occurs; even from the GRUB-menu. As the 'unadulterated' Arch is a blank slate upon which you 'should' tinker to your heart's content, it doesn't do this by default. However, you're highly encouraged to set it... Source: 11 months ago
Personal recommendation would be Garuda Linux. Like Manjaro it is 'opinionated'; sets up (GRUB-)Btrfs+Timeshift/Snapper, comes with a bunch of very useful GUI-tools etc. Source: 11 months ago
Yes... Most Linux Distro's the sound doesn't work... Garuda Linux is the only one I found that everything works. Source: 11 months ago
ArcoLinux - Great Arch/Linux learning for beginers up. Want to learn Linux ground work? Want to learn how to customize your destop & experience? What to learn how to build your own functional iso? ArcoLinux is the answer. Period.
EndeavourOS - An Arch-based distro with a dynamic and friendly community in its core
Anarchy Linux - A distro that helps setting up a Archlinux system.
Pop!_OS - A developer-focused minimalist Linux distro from System 76
Manjaro - Manjaro Linux is a linux distribution which is based on arch linux. It uses the PACMAN package manager.
Redcore Linux - Redcore Linux is a Linux distribution based on the Arch Linux operating system.