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List of Linux Applications I suggest to install

  • CoreCtrl - GPU Profiling and similar to AMD Radeon Software but more simplified.
  • Bottles - It uses Wine as a compatibility layer to run Windows Applications.
  • ALVR - Allows the usage of other VR Headsets on Linux. (May need lots of tweaking.)
  • Spicetify - Allows for customisation for Spotify using, themes, snippets and addons.

Wallpaper Engine | KDE Plasma Plugin

Wallapper Engine is an essential to aesthetics in my opinion. But trying to run it on Linux is a pain. So here's a guide on how I managed to get it working.

I recommend that you use this link below for the KDE Wallpaper Engine pluggin because it has been already compiled for you.

I have tried the original repository but I am having issues with mpv being detected among other things. So it saves the hassle using the original, but I'll also link the original anyway.

Steam

Steam is also another essential for gaming, as most people have purchased games from this platform.

If you are the situation like me where I store my downloaded games from Steam to another Storage Device, then this might useful sometimes as I have come across these issues.

It also just makes it easier if you are dual booting like I am, where you can both play your games on Linux and Windows with no hassle.

Steam from Windows Partition (NTFS)

YouTube Tutorial

Proton Documentation

Fixing Steam shortcut not working

This command helped fix my issue with the shortcut I had from my KDE Launcher.
This command creates a symbolic link for a file, kind of like a shortcut but different.
Your paths may be different, just double check.
(To be fair I was making my own Desktop Shortcuts so I probably messed something up myself.)

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/steam /usr/games/steam

Bottles

If you still haven't discovered or installed yet, I highly suggest you do, it is such a powerful tool to use and easy too.
When I am lazy, instead of switching to windows, I just play most of my Windows Games that are downloaded like FNF, Soulframe, Fightcade, etc.

The one tip I highly will suggest is that you install Flatseal, it's used to give Bottles more freedom regarding accessing system files and what not.
The next thing is to make sure that you have Mounted your drives inside of the Container you make. Otherwise when you open "Explorer" you won't find your Windows Partition or other drives.

Another thing I can suggest is to use the present "Applications". That one so far has been the most consistent in terms of reliability, but you can try to use others too or make custom ones.

Waterfox Fixes

I think it has been officially a year now since I have swapped over from Opera GX to Waterfox. Honestly I am very happy with Waterfox, it's simple and doesn't collect lot's of unnecessary data from you, unlike some other browsers...
(Looking at you Chrome, Edge and Opera. -_-)

Anyways, Waterfox is available to install on Linux but it may differ from distributions, I had an issue where I wasn't able to open links with Waterfox, it would open but not actually to the page I clicked for example on Discord. So I did some digging and found this GitHub issues report.

Another issue I had while I fixed the first was, it didn't correctly link with my Pinned Taskbar the application and the icon wasn't matching. Again found a GitHub issues report.