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.

  • landOP
    60·
    5 months ago5 months ago

    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.

    • Work: I need to learn Linux to be a penetration tester.
    • Customisation: I Love customisation, only Windows (I still have it installed on my other drive; it’s fully customised with zero bloatware). Currently following this tutorial to customise my OS. However, I can’t find anything similar to Latte-Dock. I have tried Plank and Cairo Dock. They’re buggy.
    • Apps: I’m looking for alternatives to ShareX, Fan controller, Flow launcher any other helpful tool similar to them. I have been exploring for the last 2/3 days, but I couldn’t find any app that comes even closer to ShareX (I mainly use video recording, OCR, Image capture and GIF maker features), I’m currently trying FlameShot.
    • helenslunch
      60·
      5 months ago5 months ago

      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
        11·
        5 months ago

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

        • helenslunch
          10·
          5 months ago

          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
            31·
            5 months ago5 months ago
            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
              10·
              5 months ago

              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
                10·
                5 months ago

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

                • helenslunch
                  10·
                  5 months ago

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

            • helenslunch
              11·
              5 months ago5 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.

    • Barbarian
      20·
      5 months ago5 months ago

      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 :)

    • ElusiveClarityEnglish
      20·
      5 months ago

      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.

    • PipedLinkBotBEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      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.

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼English
      10·
      5 months ago

      I can’t find anything similar to Latte-Dock

      Why do you need something similar to Latte Dock? Why can’t you just use Latte dock?

      Apps: I’m looking for alternatives to ShareX, Fan controller, Flow launcher any other helpful tool similar to them.

      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.

      • landOP
        10·
        5 months ago

        From what I have read, Latte-Dock is no longer being maintained.

    • KISSmyOSFeddit
      10·
      5 months ago

      Work: I need to learn Linux to be a penetration tester.

      First, learn nmap. That’ll get you 80% of the way.
      Also Google “Linux server hardening”, read through some tutorials and understand why each step is important and what it protects against.

    • linuxPIPEpower
      10·
      5 months ago

      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.