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As a fun way to start off this forum, let's discuss what you first did when you installed Crystal!
Whether in a VM or on real hardware, tell us your use case so we can help tailor the experience towards our users 🙂

I'll start, the first thing I did when I installed Crystal was break my initramfs using a polluted env from nix-shell install my IDEs and Nix to get a head start on developing what is now Amethyst v3.6.0 !

catto You're a founding member!! 😆 Been with us close to 2 years now and haven't even installed it once?

    I usually just grab a bunch of packages for my editors and dev tools lol

    (And sometimes, since I convert arch systems, I have to wreck some files)

      Installing what i need, like code editor, browser and other.
      Btw, Crystal is run smothly on my old computer 🥳 🥳

        Wahyu Btw, Crystal is run smothly on my old computer 🥳 🥳

        Glad to hear! 🙂
        Out of curiosity, are you using a HDD? I've long wanted to hear if our automatic snapshots have any significant overhead on a HDD
        For reference, they usually take around ~3-5s at most on my device

            Michal S. umm but in my laptop it take around 25 - 30s. But I don't mind it, because it's not too long in my opinion

              8 days later

              I often do distro-hop , so I pretty much know what I do everytime ;D
              Lets hope Crystal will be my last switch 😃

              Those are the things I do when Installing a Distro:

              • Install Lutris
              • Install Steam
              • Install ProtonUp-Qt (cause very easy to install the latest Proton-ge )
              • Set-up Flatpak (with Beta repo)
              • Set-up OpenRGB (Its a little bit hard sometimes)
              • Install RocM drivers for Davinci Resolve*
              • Extension Manager (for gnome)
              • Cups Drivers (printer support)
              • "Enable" zRam
                -install gnome-software (if I have the gnome desktop)

              I usually have Gnome has the Desktop.

              I install following extensions:
              https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5237/rounded-window-corners/

              https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5236/material-you-color-theming/

              https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3193/blur-my-shell/

              *Its really hard getting Davinci Resolve to work on any Distro.
              ROCm is not on every distro available.
              On for example Ubuntu you need a specific Ubuntu Version and Specific Linux Kernel.
              I could get Davinci run on Arch, but editing videos was not possible.
              The Only distro that worked was Fedora

              If this distro could get resolve working out of the box like the Nobara Project, I would really consider switching

              GKHD I do this a little too often when in nix-shell environments 😅

                14 days later

                Installed on hardware the first few things I did was the following

                • Updated system using ame
                • Installed missing base-devel packages for building AUR packages
                • installed a heap of codec's and apps that I use
                • Enabled shell user themes
                • Installed Nord theme with paparius icon set
                • Enabled multilib in pacman.conf
                • Installed steam
                • Installed Extension Manager
                • Removed the gnome "overview" mode button and enabled "Applications" menu
                • Updated my own fetch program for the terminal(written in pascal) to include Crystal Linux

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