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Garuda Linux Kicks Off 2022 with New Cinnamon Edition, Btrfs Assistant Tool
Arch Linux-based Garuda Linux has a new ISO release to kick off 2022 with some cool new
tools, a new community edition, and the usual performance improvements.
Garuda Linux still tries to bring Arch Linux to the masses, and the Garuda Linux 220101
release, dubbed “White-tailed Eagle”, is here to introduce a
new community edition featuring the beloved and lightweight Cinnamon desktop environment
maintained by the Linux Mint developers.
Garuda Linux offered a Cinnamon edition some time ago, but it would appear that it was
dropped due to the lack of a maintainer. Well, the good news is that the Cinnamon edition
is back with a new maintainer, it uses the Cinnamon 5.0 desktop environment and provides
users with a slick experience and a bunch of customization options.
Another cool thing about the new Garuda Linux release is that it introduces a new tool called
Btrfs Assistant. This was split from the Garuda Assistant utility into a new graphical application
that lets you more easily control your Btrfs filesystems.
The Btrfs Assistant tool has a few new features under the hood, such as support for restoring
snapshots with nested subvolumes under them, as well as the ability to restore snapshots
even if their subvolumes are mounted. See it in action below running on the new Cinnamon
edition!
The Garuda Linux 220101 release also comes with an updated Garuda System Maintenance
utility that’s now capable of informing users about partial upgrades of their installations,
as well as of out-of-date systems if they haven’t applied updates for more than two
weeks. Of course, these notifications are optional and can be turned off.
“We observed that especially people who are new to Arch [Linux] are either not updating
the system often or causing partial upgrade situations which then cause applications to
not work. The addition of those notifications should provide some needed help,” said the
Garuda Linux team. Another new community edition sees the light
of day with this new Garuda Linux release, dubbed KDE-git edition, which provides a barebones
ISO for those who want to follow KDE Plasma desktop environment’s development more closely.
As its name suggests, it uses a lot of daily built KDE Plasma -git packages from Chaotic-AUR,
so it’s targeted towards experienced users.
Last but not least, Garuda Linux’s first release of 2022 drops the performance-tweaks
tool from the default installation to offer a more “neutral” stock configuration in
an attempt to attract more users to Garuda Linux. The performance-tweaks tool will be
prompted for installation by the Setup Assistant utility when classic tower PCs are detected.
On the other hand, the dr460nized (KDE Plasma) and GNOME editions will shipping with power-profiles-daemon
to control power profiles for your devices.
Of course, the latest updates are included in the Garuda Linux 220101 release, which
is available for download right now from the official website as KDE Dr460nized, KDE Dr460nized
Gaming, KDE Dr460nized BlackArch, GNOME, Xfce, LXQT-Kwin, Cinnamon, MATE, Wayfire, Sway,
Qtile, i3, and BSPWM editions.
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Cinnamon 5.2.7 announced
The 5.2.7 version of the Cinnamon desktop environment developed by Linux Mint , which
offers advanced innovative features, but continues the traditional user experience in some way,
has been announced. The new version, announced by Clement Lefebvre on github.com , was thus
made available. The release reportedly handles 1 file change, 91 additions, and 85 deletions.
While expressing the happiness on behalf of the whole team and developers regarding the
release of the version, users were asked not to hesitate about the feedback of the bugs
they detected regarding the new version that comes with various improvements and innovations.
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Garuda Linux which comes based on Arch Linux but unlike Arch Linux comes with a graphical
installer (Calamares) for easy installation and other advanced graphical tools to manage
the systemThe version of 220101, codenamed “White-tailed Eagle”, has been announced.
The ISO images of the version are in the mirrors for download. Garuda Linux, a performance-oriented
distribution with many performance-enhancing tweaks, uses zram, a performance CPU manager,
along with custom memory management software. This version of Garuda Linux; KDE Plasma is
offered in at least 12 different versions including GNOME, Xfce, LXQT, Wayfire, Qtile,
i3WM, MATE, Cinnamon, Recbox, BSPWM, Barebones. The release announcement, which begins with
the wish of a happy new year, begins with the news that all packages have been upgraded
to fixed versions. While it is stated that FireDragon 2 is not preferred as the default
browser, it is stated that system maintenance is made easier than ever thanks to Garuda
System Maintenance 2.
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