[2][3] It offers multiple desktop environments, but the KDE Plasma version is the default.

[5] Garuda Linux, being based on Arch Linux, features a rolling release update model using Pacman as its package manager.

[2] Garuda Linux was released on 26 March 2020 by Shrinivas Vishnu Kumbhar, a university student from India and SGS from Germany.

The distribution uses the btrfs file system by default which supports snapshots.

[3] Garuda includes Manjaro's pamac GUI frontend for Pacman that allows for the installation of packages from pacman and Snap and Flatpak packages.