When comparing ElementaryOS 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 ElementaryOS is ranked 24th. The most important reason people chose Garuda Linux is:
Uses vram, and a zen kernel.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Clean, slick and just works
Pro Very simple to use
Practically anyone can use it within an hour of its install - great concept!
Pro Apps you need, without ones you don't
Pro Easy operating system for users who like to change from MS Windows/Mac
More powerful than MS Windows and good looking like Mac. Benefits for advanced users and easy to regular users.
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 Needs a lot of RAM
Minimum is 4GB, for most Linux distributions it's 2GB or less.