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.

  • @[email protected]
    10•8 months ago

    If you want something useful, maybe some more info on what you use your computer for? Advice for a glorified web terminal would be “Click the Firefox icon”. Advice for learning bash would be a massive rabbithole.

    App suggestions are also very dependent on what you use your computer for.

    • @[email protected]OP
      6•8 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.
      • @[email protected]
        2•8 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
        2•8 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.

      • @[email protected]
        1•8 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.

      • @KISSmyOSFeddit
        1•8 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.

      • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼English
        1•8 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.