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Add to SafariWhen comparing solydK vs Garuda Linux, the Slant community recommends Garuda Linux for most people. In the question“What are the best Linux distributions for KDE Plasma 5?” Garuda Linux is ranked 11th while solydK is ranked 40th. The most important reason people chose Garuda Linux is:
Uses vram, and a zen kernel.
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Pros
Pro Solid
As the name would suggest, SolydXK is rock solid Debian.
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 Installer doesn't recognise partition table SOMETIMES
On a couple of occasions the installer has told me one of my disks is missing a partition table but it definitely has one and other distros haven't presented this warning.
Con Default theming not to everyone's tastes
The default icon theme in particular is IMHO pretty ugly. Easily changed but if you like to just plug & play without changing themes it may not suit you.
Con Needs a lot of RAM
Minimum is 4GB, for most Linux distributions it's 2GB or less.
Con Super
