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

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rozodru@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago

What is a "must have" depends on your use case, personal preferences, and the shortcomings of your distro's default configuration (I've never used Cachy so I don't know what's missing).

For myself, I usually end up installing VLC and Strawberry Media Player, since the media players most distros come with aren't as good. On non-GNOME distros I tend to install GNOME Disks as it's the least painful to use of the GUI partitioning tools I have used. My preferred rich text format is Markdown, for which I use ghostwriter. I also usually install a few FOSS games to pass the time with - my favorites are Freedoom, SuperTux, SuperTuxKart, and Xonotic - and RetroArch for emulation.