Marco Kretz marco-kretz

This guide is completely irrelevant! You no longer need to follow anything here—doing so may actually harm performance rather than helping it. Please tell whoever linked you here that they need to maintain their own guide, if they want to help people set up newer versions of DXVK / etc.

Arch Linux tweaks

This is a collection of the tweaks and modification I've made to my Arch Linux installation over the months. These may be applicable to other distros, but please check first before doing anything. I also included Arch Wiki references for all the procedures I mentioned. My recommendation is not to blindly follow this gist but to always check with the Arch Linux wiki first. Things move fast and by the time you're reading this my gist may be out of date. Lastly, the golden rule: never execute a command you don't understand.

Installing the KDE Plasma desktop

My current DE of choice is KDE's Plasma. I find it just about perfect.

There are various ways to install it on Arch. The most popular one is to install plasma and plasma-applications, but I don't like doing that because it comes with too many programs I'll never use. I, instead, install the base plasma group, remove the few extra packages that come with it, then I finish off by installing a few KDE apps that don't come with th

WARNING

May contain out of date information. Check the comments below!

The list of actions listed below was taken mostly from Book Of Zeus with minor modifications and did the job well for Ubuntu version, which was available at that moment (May 2016). This gist was created for internal use and was never meant to be discovered by the web, although Google managed to find and index this page, which was a great surprise for me. Please check the original source for the updated information (links are provided in most of the sections), and read the comments below: they provide more details about the usage experience.

System Updates

http://bookofzeus.com/harden-ubuntu/initial-setup/system-updates/

Keeping the system updated is vital before starting anything on your system. This will prevent people to use known vulnerabilities to enter in your system.

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# What it does:
	# - Creates a local Shopware installation using the Symfony Flex template for local development of client projects
	# - Prerequisites: ddev installed on your machine, see https://ddev.com/get-started/
	#
	# How to use:
	# - create a project folder
	# - copy this file into the project folder
	# - chmod +x install.sh

	# Corsair headsets will stuck the apps on your linux system. This is due to wrong usb-mapping.

	# thx to http://www.c0urier.net/2016/corsair-gaming-void-usb-rgb-linux-fun

	# 1. open terminal
	# 2. type this and search the line with your headset
	lsusb


	# Get the USB ID of the headset and add it to xorg.conf: