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To Do
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Replace Ananicy with auto-cpufreq
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Add Waydroid
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Add EasyEffects for PipeWire's audio server only
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Add QEMU
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Add Nala package manager
- Kernels & Drivers 🔧
- Better Audio 🔊
- Longer Battery Life 🔋
- Optimize RAM&SSD 🚀
- Better CPU Managment 💻
- Touchpad Gestures 🖱️
- Customization 🎨
- Software 📥
- Retro Gaming 🎮
- Terminal 🔳
- Linux Resources 📚
Note
Depending on the type of hardware you have, one might work better than the other. But in my opinion XanMod good for gaming and Liquorix for heavy tasks like video editing, vscode etc.
echo 'deb http://deb.xanmod.org releases main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xanmod-kernel.list wget -qO - https://dl.xanmod.org/gpg.key | sudo apt-key --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/xanmod-kernel.gpg add - sudo apt update && sudo apt install linux-xanmod or
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:damentz/liquorix && sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install linux-image-liquorix-amd64 linux-headers-liquorix-amd64 sudo reboot Pulse Effects (will make soft speakers alot louder)
sudo apt-get install pulseeffects lsp-plugins Presets
Check out this guide
If there is any issue with your audio like lag or in my case louder volume feature was not working, From linux-mint forums :
killall pulseaudio sudo killall pulseaudio sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libpulse-browse0 paman pavumeter pavucontrol sudo mv /etc/asound.conf /etc/asound.conf-bak rm ~/.pulse-cookie rm -r ~/.pulse sudo apt-get install libalsaplayer0 Install TLP package
- Open synaptic package manager
- Search for tlp package
- Right click package, select mark for installation and mark
- Click apply
sudo systemctl disable bluetooth.service ## To re-enable sudo systemctl enable bluetooth.service sudo ufw logging off ## To re-enable sudo ufw logging low Disabling Vsync&Windows Compositing (found in general)
Disable Startup Apps
Disable All Effects & Animations
Disable Automatic Screen Rotation (found in display settings)
Decrease swap
Only if using 8gb ram or more for less disk writes and more use of memory
Open:
sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf Add at end of file :
vm.swappiness = 10
This means when 10% of ram is only available, swap will activate
VFS cache pressure pushes the kernel to return memory being used for caching to the main pool of free memory
Open:
sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf Add at end of sysctl.conf file:
vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50
Noatime mount option fully disables writing file access times to SSD every time you read a file, this reduces the writes to SSD therefore greatly increasing lifespan of SSD’s
sudo nano /etc/fstab 
Caution
This tool is outdated and has not been updated for a while. If have issues try earlyoom or oomd
Install Nohang:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/test sudo apt update sudo apt install nohang sudo systemctl enable --now nohang-desktop.service Warning
This tool is outdated and has not been updated for a while. Please use auto-cpufreq. Have not have time to use it and write quick tutorial.
Manage processes IO and CPU priorities with Ananicy
git clone https://github.com/Nefelim4ag/Ananicy.git /tmp/ananicy cd /tmp/ananicy sudo make install sudo systemctl enable ananicy sudo systemctl start ananicy Install Touchegg
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:touchegg/stable sudo apt update sudo apt install touchegg sudo systemctl enable touchegg.service sudo systemctl start touchegg mkdir -p ~/.config/touchegg && cp -n /usr/share/touchegg/touchegg.conf ~/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf Install Touché application in software manager to configure gestures
or
Do it maunally from config file
sudo nano ~/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf Here is my configuration for reference
All themes example here are from Pling website.
Extract zip files to /usr/share/icons/
Extract zip files to /usr/share/themes/
Extract zip files to /usr/share/icons/
Install plank dock from software manager
Extract zip files to /usr/share/plank/themes/
Copy theme folder to /usr/share/plymouth/themes/
Install the new theme (cybernetic in this case)
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/cybernetic/cybernetic.plymouth 100 sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth sudo update-initramfs -u Java (Running Programs)
VERSION 17
wget https://download.oracle.com/java/17/latest/jdk-17_linux-x64_bin.deb chmod +x jdk-17_linux-x64_bin.deb sudo dpkg -i jdk-17_linux-x64_bin.deb VERSION 21
wget https://download.oracle.com/java/21/latest/jdk-21_linux-x64_bin.deb chmod +x jdk-21_linux-x64_bin.deb sudo dpkg -i jdk-21_linux-x64_bin.deb Wine (Install Windows Softwares)
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key sudo apt-key add winehq.key sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main' sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable Anbox Cloud (Android Emulator)
sudo apt install snapd sudo snap install anbox-cloud-appliance --classic - Open https://your-machine-address/applications in your browser. By default, the Anbox Cloud Appliance uses self-signed certificates, which might cause a security warning in your browser. Use the mechanism provided by your browser to proceed to the web page.
- Click Add Application.
- Enter a name for the application, for example, virtual-device-web.
- Keep the preselected resource type.
- Select the Android image that you want to use, for example, jammy:android13:arm64.
- Do not upload an APK file.
- Click Add Application. You are redirected to the application view. Wait until the application status changes to ready.
Lutris (Game Library Manager)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lutris-team/lutris sudo apt update sudo apt install lutris Mailspring (Mail Client)
sudo snap install mailspring ## Or manually wget https://updates.getmailspring.com/download?platform=linuxDeb sudo chmod +x name_of_file.deb sudo dpkg -i /path/to/deb/file Raven Reader (Rss News)
sudo snap install raven-reader qBittorrent (Torrenting Client)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt install qbittorrent Hardinfo (System Information)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/hardinfo sudo apt update sudo apt install hardinfo Bleachbit (Clean System)
sudo apt install bleachbit Stacer (System Optimizer & Monitoring)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oguzhaninan/stacer -y sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install stacer -y Haruna (Video player & Youtube-dl)
flatpak install flathub org.kde.haruna Shutter (Screenshot tool)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shutter/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt install shutter 
Install RetroPi
sudo apt install -y git dialog unzip xmlstarlet git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git cd RetroPie-Setup sudo ./retropie_setup.sh Install Themes
Install more themes from RetroHursty69
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RetroHursty69/HurstyThemes/master/install.sh chmod +x "install.sh" ./install.sh ## Restart Emulation Station and you should then see the new script in the RetroPie menu. Install Shaders
Get more shaders from glsl-shaders, Extract zip to ~/.config/retroarch/shaders folder.
The Bezel Project
cd /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thebezelproject/BezelProject/master/bezelproject.sh chmod +x "bezelproject.sh" ## Restart Emulation Station and you should then see the new script in the RetroPie menu. Tip
For FREE rom packs & bios files, go to Arcade Punks and download a Raspberry Pi custom build image using torrents. Then you can mount image file in linux and view contents. Search for roms&bios folders/files and extract them to retropi directories on your Linux system.
Customize your terminal like a boss
COWSAY(can be used with fortune)
sudo apt-get install cowsay sudo apt-get install ruby sudo gem install lolcat sudo apt install toilet sudo apt install figlet Information needed for customizing bash :
Everything is added and edited at the end of bashrc file :
sudo nano /.bashrc Here is an example for reference
Pimp out Neofetch (can be added to bashrc)
Open neofetch config file to edit :
sudo nano ~/.config/neofetch/config.conf To add custom ASCII art work, you need to create a txt file (with the art) in your home directory and add file path to neofetch config file
Here is an example for reference
Instead of linux bash you can use fish shell which has cool features like my favourite auto predictions preview
Fish is a Unix shell with a focus on interactivity and usability. Oh My Fish provides core infrastructure to allow you to install packages which extend or modify the look of your shell. It's fast, extensible and easy to use
Install fish :
sudo apt install fish Install oh-my-fish :
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish/master/bin/install | fish Set fish to default shell :
fish --login ## REVERT bash --login Install themes
Customize current fish theme colors :
fish_config For startup greetings go to .config/fish/functions and create a file fish_greeting.fish
gh-s - Search GitHub repositories interactively from the command line
Install :
curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo dd of=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null sudo apt update sudo apt install gh Login authorization :
gh auth login Install extension :
gh extension install gennaro-tedesco/gh-s Get Started :
gh s 
