I've used linux distros for a variety of tasks in the past but am finally committed to moving my primary machine to it. This is mostly used for games, writing, development, and web browsing. I've selected Manjaro as my distro.

Anyone have any tips or suggestions? Software to install. Things to keep in mind. Cool things to do you couldn't on windows?!

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  • account346533 [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Make sure to enable the aur for pamac. You can use the app store thing's preferences settings to enable the aur. Its super useful for downloading stuff that isn't in the manjaro or arch repos. I'd highly recommend downloading the microsoft font package, command would be sudo pamac install ttf-ms-fonts. Manjaro by default comes with timeshift which is a cool piece of software that creates pseudo backups of system settings and such. Libreoffice is the best linux experience for office software, but there are also a million latex editors. If you are using kde plasma as the de then it would probably make sense to go with kde's editor. If you use discord at all, I would highly highly recommend the discord_arch_electron package which makes it so you don't have to deal with the very bad native linux updates for discord. For games you'll want lutris, its big selling point is that it has a number of autoconfigure scripts. Firefox is the obvious choice for browser on linux. If you are using a wide screen (16:9) I'd recommend looking into removing the taskbar amd replacing it with the tree style tabs extension.

    • Wildgrapes [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Good suggestions. Some of this I already have or planed on getting but hadn't heard of enabling aur or tree style tabs. That is very intriguing to me as I do have a wide monitor.

      • account346533 [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        I love it, for web content height is so important, so making that shift ended up adding an extra boost. What desktop are you using?

          • account346533 [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Plasma includrs a program called krunner that you can activate by pressing Lshift and space. It allows you search for programs and things quickly. I'd recommend the firefox addon that adds krunner integration as well as the calculator for krunner so you can do simple math quickly.