When comparing Arch Linux ARM vs Garuda Linux, the Slant community recommends Garuda Linux for most people. In the question“What Linux distros look the best (nicest) out of the box?” Garuda Linux is ranked 14th while Arch Linux ARM is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Garuda Linux is:
Uses vram, and a zen kernel.
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Pros
Pro Simple to use
Pro Easy to use
Pro Configure how you want it
Pro Super-fast
Uses vram, and a zen kernel.
Pro Themes
The dr460nized KDE theme is awesome.
Pro Easy entrance to Arch Linux
Filled to the brim with lots of quality-of-life changes and optimizations that are simple enough for long-time Windows, long-time Mac users, and Arch newbies to understand. Though, it also leads to bloat or not necessarily helpful extra software. If you're not into the "bloat" added in, try checking out the barebones version, you'll need to know a lot of things bout Arch to fully use barebones.
Pro Highly customized interface
You already have most of the customization done for you out of the box.
Pro Unused RAM is wasted RAM
It takes just a bit more RAM than Manjaro. Edit: This statement is only true if it helps the user and since this could be running on a low end machine this will not.
Cons
Con Restrict required packages to x86_64
Debian can install wine on ARM and qemu but Arch cannot.
Con Hard to use
Con Unstable
Arch's port is fairly immature and suffers some stability issues on many ARM platforms.
Con It does take about 30 min tops to know how to use if new to Linux
Con Spotty package ports
Some packages are updated regularly, but many get well out of sync with upstream and upstream Arch, leading to stability problems.
Con Needs a lot of RAM
Minimum is 4GB, for most Linux distributions it's 2GB or less.
Con Super
