Garuda KDE Dr460nized — Install + First Tweaks

What this guide covers

• Install Garuda from the live environment.
• Reboot and finalize with Setup Assistant.
• Switch Konsole shell profile.
• Create your first gpg2 key.
• Touch up sudoers and enable SSH daemon.
• Add small quality-of-life tweaks (zoxide, aliases, .bashrc edits).
• First Brave launch check.

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:33 - Starting install from the live environment
02:52 - Reboot after install, finalizing with Setup assistant
05:46 - Konsole shell change
07:28 - Create the first gpg2 key
08:20 - Sudoers
09:14 - Enable ssh daemon
09:38 - Install zoxide with yay
10:13 - Aliases
10:54 - "find-the-command" and bauh
11:55 - Change ls/exa aliases in .bashrc
13:10 - Enabling zoxide in .bashrc
13:45 - First Brave start.

Quality of Life Tweaks

1. Install zoxide and configure shell aliases:

   yay -S zoxide eza bat
   echo 'eval "$(zoxide init --cmd cd bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc
   echo "alias ls='eza -al --color=always --group-directories-first'" >> ~/.bashrc
   source ~/.bashrc