Just dove head-first into Linux the past week (dual-booting with Windows 11) and wondering what are some first steps I should take as a newbie? Any tweaks I should make that are recommended? I am gaming-focused, and not much more beyond that aside from some web browsing!
I’ve already done a few things and gotten a few programs already going such as Steam, Heroic launcher, Lutris, Discord, preferred web browser, MangoHud, familiarized myself with Proton, set up monitors, adjusted mouse settings, etc. What would be some wise steps for me to take from here as far as optimizing the OS? Any tweaks I can make in the console to improve gaming? Or improve anything, really! Any useful tools for my use case? Or in general?
Not sure if it helps, but here’s some basic specs of my PC:
One of the key things to understand about linux is that unless you use a paid distribution you need to rely on the linux user community for help with issues. Text forums are generally an efficient way to get help as posts are web-discoverable so can reach users who can help, but that help will often request details from logs and command output, so being able to use basic command-line tools is important. I advise new users to spend a few hours with the book from https://LinuxCommand.org (written by a human long before AI slop arrived!) so you can go back to it when you need to understand command-lines you are asked to run.
For the best gaming and multimedia support you probably should enable the rpmfusion repos as shown here and the rpmfusion-nonfree-steam repo which could (and should) have been enabled during the first boot setup (or probably can be enabled in the Discover repo config panel)
Then for multimedia support follow the instructions here and install steam with the command sudo dnf install steam
Once all this is done your system should properly support gaming and multimedia of (almost) all kinds.