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.
Just figure out what you want to do. Its not like Windows where you need to run scrub scripts, or turn specific things on or off. It’s very subjective.
Examples:
- are you in a laptop? You want specific tools for battery and performance tuning.
- are you gaming?
- are you working audio or video?
Just edit your comment and throw a few things out that you’d like to do, and you’ll get a much more complete list of suggestions and tips.
Just swapped a new battery in a MacBook running mint. Any suggestions for battery/performance?
You might still need this: https://github.com/linux-on-mac/mbpfan
Also, install TLP for better battery life management. Maybe have look at powertop to see what allows using power.
Awesome, TYSM!
Kdeconnect / gsconnect
Localsend only does files/pictures/a quickie bit of text, but I find it more convenient and reliable than kdeconnect. Localsend’s iphone app is in better shape too, if you need that.
You have an Iphone but kdeconnect is the problem?
KDE connect on both your PC and phone just use
--no-install-recommendsto avoid KDE bloatFor Gnome there is GSconnect available.
cmus is great for music
mpv for videos, there are different extensions to automatically open YT videos with it.
beets for sorting music
nicotine plus for looking for music
syncthing
zathura
improving performance isn’t easy if you feel like things are running smoothly, but there are a few laptop specific things like tlp that you could look into although I suspect that distro uses them out of the box
Cowsay
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/general_recommendations
Take your pick.
qalculate. It’s a calculator. A good one, though. You can put in
2 * x = 5.5or100 inches to metersand get an answer, it loads fast, it keeps history, the arrow keys work and it has all the fancy scientific buttons you’d ever want too.Distrobox for accessing any package from any other repo; including those belonging to other distros.
Your description is a bit misleading. Distrobox allows you to run a container that is integrated with the system. This means you can have a command line that is basically the other distro but you can still access files and run GUI apps.
Interesting, thanks!
installing random services with docker is pretty fun
hollywood
tree,screen, andwgethave for a long time been the three packages I’ve always added on a fresh install.Other packages are mainly connected to the use of the system at hand, like
zellij,helix, andgiton a development setup, orfishon any system where I do my doings mainly in a terminal och over ssh.What is och?
Oh! I’m sorry, “och” is “and” in Swedish 🙂
Bottles and virtual manager
If you like music have a look at
- Picard
- Puddletag
vim
Also setup a bootable USB stick with a backup program like clonezilla to do full machine backups.
You’ll get the hang of OS vs data backups later, but for now, do a full backup, play around installing / removing stuff and if you break it, you’re back in business in no time
