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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Must have packages/extentions/etc? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm new to Linux, been using it for the past couple weeks now and I'm on CachyOS. I absolutely love it.

I'm curious as to what must haves or fun/great things to install? just wanted to hear the communities opinions on what they like to use.

Edit: for me personally I'm on a laptop with a focus on gaming and general content watching like streams, listening to music, etc. Right now i'm using cmus for music and I really like it but I would like tips on enhancing the performance on my laptop. It has nvidia so it's running great with cachyos right now but any suggestions for improvments would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

For gaming - https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch1 It bundles a few useful things as well like another suggestion: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode as well as quite a few others, tinker is especially useful if you want to mod too, making mod organizer 2 very easy to use, taking a lot out of the otherwise manual set up

Also in general, look for custom launchers, Genshin has a custom launcher, runescape as well, I believe gog does too. If you can't use foss at least use a better launcher.

for media honestly you can't beat VLC, but I run a plex server I typically use, for music I use strawberry, and for asmr desktop noise Blanket is a super cool package, and I like Cozy for audio-books.

Edit: Oh and for gaming I saw another comment recommending retroarch and I totally agree, retroarch works amazing on linux, so much better performance than I ever had emulating on windows before I switched.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry what’s this about Genshin? I was under the impression I could not play it on linux at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

:) Yep you can! There's "An Anime Game launcher" for linux