Hey folks, I just got Bazzite OS KDE up and running on my PC. Being a Linux newbie, I’d love some tips, tricks, and app suggestions if you have any. 😅 Switching from Windows has been a bit of a maze with all the distros out there, so any pointers would be awesome!
The amount of tutorials out there is overwhelming. Hopefully 🙏 you guys point me in the right direction.
Edit: That is a lot of great information. I really appreciate you guys taking your time to share your experience/advice.
If you want something useful, maybe some more info on what you use your computer for? Advice for a glorified web terminal would be “Click the Firefox icon”. Advice for learning bash would be a massive rabbithole.
App suggestions are also very dependent on what you use your computer for.
Initially, I heard about Bazzite OS here on Lemmy; I was tempted to try it out. As someone who loves FOSS, I always wanted to move to Linux. However, I do gaming occasionally, holding me back until I discovered Bazzite OS.
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You can always use distrobox. There’s no need to run a distro because you need an app that’s only available there.
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distrobox entersudo dnf install htopdistrobox-export --bin \usr\bin\htopsudo dnf install anyguiappdistrobox-export --app \usr\bin\anyguiappafter that you can use htop or anyguiapp like a normal command on your computer
Images to use: https://github.com/toolbx-images/images
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I should’ve guessed when you recommended ubuntu. Sorry for that.
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There’s a pretty good tutorial for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiDt4O6UPRw
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=eiDt4O6UPRw
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I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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So on the gaming front, pretty much any mainstream Linux distro would work for that. Proton is pretty damn stable and great on any distro that supports Steam. If you like Bazzite though, you do you.
For pen testing, must-have skills are nmap, bash, sqlmap, wireshark and the burp suite. If you know how to use all those, you’ve got basic coverage of most common attack vectors (password cracking is also covered by bash, there’s 101 different password cracking algorithms in various CLI spps).
I’m a lazy ass who doesn’t care much about customization, hopefully someone else can help you with that :))
A quick Google shows that someone got sharex working on Linux: https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/issues/6531
Might take some effort and learning bash and WINE + winetricks to get that running, but hey, you’re gonna need to do that anyways for the pentest stuff :)
Cooler control is great if you need to control the pump and fans of a CPU cooler. I’m not sure if it can do case fans like fan control but I just set them in the bios anyways.
Use the website alternativeto.com to locate Linux versions of windows or Mac programs. Also if you find something on Linux but its not quite right, can find listed similar apps.
It has quite extensive coverage of GUI apps. Less so CLI. Certain niche areas are more comprehensive than others.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
this tutorial
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Why do you need something similar to Latte Dock? Why can’t you just use Latte dock?
FlameShot is a great alternative for ShareX, I don’t really know about Fan controller, but KDE has a built-in replacement for Flow launcher called KRunner. By default, you should be able to launch it with Alt + Space. If not, check the Keyboard shortcut page in the system settings.
From what I have read, Latte-Dock is no longer being maintained.
It’s not longer maintained by the original developer, but apparently the KDE project picked it up and it should still work, just like it did before
I couldn’t get it working even after installing so went the plamsa kde panel route
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https://github.com/KDE/latte-dock
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