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Tips/tricks for beginners (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by land@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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. πŸ˜… 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 πŸ™ 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.

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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Bazzite is great but gaming is also great on any distro.

Alternatively there are lots of gaming focused distros. Garuda, Chimera, Nobara, etc.

The difference between them will mostly be the "out of box experience", what software comes pre-installed, and what package manager is used.

I recommended Debian or Ubuntu based distros if you plan to use anything else, as if the dev releases software outside of Flatpak, it's usually a .deb file.

Make sure you have GearLever for appimages.

[–] swooosh@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can always use distrobox. There's no need to run a distro because you need an app that's only available there.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There's no need to run a distro because you need an app that's only available there.

None except that you have to figure how the fuck to use distrobox.

[–] swooosh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
  1. Create a distrobox with distrobox enter
  2. sudo dnf install htop
  3. distrobox-export --bin \usr\bin\htop
  4. sudo dnf install anyguiapp
  5. distrobox-export --app \usr\bin\anyguiapp

after that you can use htop or anyguiapp like a normal command on your computer

Images to use: https://github.com/toolbx-images/images

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not looking for tutorials. I was making the point that you don't need to learn to use it. You just double click the file and you're done.

[–] swooosh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I should've guessed when you recommended ubuntu. Sorry for that.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago

I didn't recommend Ubuntu. I recommended Ubuntu-based distros.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There's a pretty good tutorial for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiDt4O6UPRw

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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, the point is I don't want to watch the tutorial. Even if I did, it'd probably all be gibberish to me.

On Debian I just click the file and Bob's your Uncle.