As Garuda tracks very closely with upstream Arch, most information (but not all) contained in the Arch Wiki is likely applicable to Garuda. Anyone looking for answers to questions regarding Garuda, (or any other Arch based distro) should always check the phenomenal Arch Wiki documentation first. This is especially important if you own a laptop, as many laptops require special setup steps that are out of the ordinary. Be sure to search the Arch Wiki for your specific make and model of laptop, as the Arch Wiki often contains very detailed information on many models of laptops.
You can use the Arch Wiki's internal search engine, but it's probably more convenient to simply use your favorite online search engine. Running an internet search on a topic such as, "Archwiki Pacman usage" should immediately turn up all the information you could ever want to know about Arch Linux's default package manager “Pacman”. Also, for those unfamiliar with Linux, many Linux aspects have inbuilt documentation that can be accessed directly from within the terminal with the "man" command. In Linux these are referred to as “manpages”, which is a shortened form of “manual pages” (thus the “man” command). If you want to find information regarding Pacman without performing an internet search you can simply enter "man pacman" in the terminal. Alternately, if you want to find detailed information on removing packages with Pacman (uninstalling with the -R option), you can simply run "pacman -R --help". This will return detailed information on all the available pacman uninstall options without having to sift the Internet for answers. Arch has the best documentation in the Linux world, so please try to avail yourself of this great resource before opening a help request on the Garuda forum.
Learning how to improve your search efficiency is one the most important keys to solving most problems in Linux. This generally comes down to learning how to best refine your search terms to get the most focused results. For example, if you are experiencing a problem that just cropped up on a recent update then one of the most useful ways to find relevant answers is to limit/shorten the time frame in your search. Most good search engines should have an option to limit search results to the last week, or the last month. A bug that appeared with your last update is more likely to be found in very recent online posts. If you're not sure how to change the time frame in your favorite search engine then you need to learn how. Advanced search engines such as DuckDuckGo, Google, and others all include these date filtering capabilities. Finding out how to do this is your first stepping stone to success in mastering the essentials of becoming an accomplished search guru. For recent bugs, always search the most recent online posts first. If that doesn't turn up anything, then you'll want to expand your search time frame limitations. However, even very recent issues can sometimes turn up pertinent answers from far in the past. This is because some bugs have the bad habit of recurring regularly over time. Limiting the time frame of your search is one important method to refine your search results, however there are many other stratagems that can be utilized as well.
You can refine your search terms further by forcing your search engine to only include results for a specific word, (or several key words) that are the most important in your overall search string. You can do this (if your search engine supports this feature) by surrounding the most important word(s) in in your overall search criteria in “quotation marks”. Anything contained directly within “quotation marks” in your search string should ensure it is always going to appear in the search results. One of the most effective methods is to use "Arch Linux" as your first search string delimiter. This will help minimize extraneous hits from Ubuntu/Mint etc forum threads. Debian based distros may provide valid answers at times, however because of the major differences between the distros they are not the best place to start looking for answers. If you aren't finding the search results you want using "Arch Linux" (in quotation marks), then try searching using other Arch based distributions. Try narrowing your search terms further by using alternate distros such as "EndeavourOS" or "Manjaro Linux" instead. You may also want to try using "Garuda Linux" in your internet wide search engine terms, as sometimes a more specialized search engine will turn up results that the Garuda forum's internal search engine might miss.
If you can't readily find your targeted search term listed on a very lengthy webpage then use the "Find in this page" feature included in Firefox (or other browsers) to locate the specific info quickly. This helps to find a specific error message in an extremely long log output that has been posted online. This reduces search time immensely if you can't easily find an error message in a thread containing multiple lengthy logs. These, and other search shortcuts can help increase your search efficiency greatly. Once you have mastered these and other similar, (but not so obvious skills), you will be well on your way to becoming a certified Linux search guru.
Below are some further ways to fine tune your search methods so that the hits returned are far more closely related to the specific answer you are seeking. This is an example of a problem that occurred whenever a computer was restarted, suspended, or shutdown. A loud popping sound through the computers speakers was happening whenever a power cycling event took place. Running a search that included the triggers “start, suspend, shutdown” returned mostly posts that were unrelated to the issue at hand. This will happen when you include too many general search terms, and you will get a million disjointed jumbled hits mostly unrelated to your problem returned. The key in this type of situation is to search each issue separately, rather than searching all the issues together to get a far more focused result.
Here are some further advanced tips on how to refine your search parameters. I realize some people justifiably refuse to use Google, but as it is the most popular search engine in use the following tips will be Google specific. These tips may, or may not work with other internet search engines.
You can narrowly focus your search to only one specific web site if you want to avoid searching the entire web. This can also be done by domain, but I won't get into that.
Often the Arch Linux forum is the best place to begin a search. The Arch Linux forum web address is:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/
Say you wanted to search only the Arch Linux forum for results relating to widgets, you would preface your search with "site:", as so:
site:bbs.archlinux.org widget
Now say you want to omit weather widgets from the search results. You can have those results ommited by prefacing that term with a minus symbol, as so:
site:bbs.archlinux.org widget -weather
You can further refine your search results to include or exclude more search terms. You can make your search more specific by adding multiple search terms with a space between each, as so:
site:bbs.archlinux.org widget kde
The above search terms will provide results from the Arch Linux forum focusing on KDE widgets.
You can also add further terms to exclude from search results. Weather and network widgets can be excluded from the overall KDE widget results on the Arch forum, as so:
site:bbs.archlinux.org widget kde -weather -network
When you combine all these methods together you can get far more refined search results than you ever imagined was possible. Hopefully these extra tips will give you even more options to vastly improve your search results.
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