What was the first thing you did when you installed Crystal?

Michal S.

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 🙂

Michal S.

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 !

Amethyst

use myself

catto

To this day, with great shame, I have never actually installed crystal 😬

VoiDoctrina

catto 😑

Michal S.

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

Matt C

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~~)

Michal S.

Matt C Begone, foul /etc/os-release! I beseech thee!

Matt C

Michal S. only nerds need os-release anyways

hericium

cried cuz i just lost a bet

Michal S.

hericium Well you're with us now, whether you like it or not! 😆

Wahyu

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

Michal S.

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

Wahyu

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

Hier217

Michal S. first Thing i did? Install Steam 😛

GKHD

Nuke my user enviroment out of pure stupidity.

Michal S.

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

JustOscar

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

DrunkenAlcoholic

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

ScreenShot

Matt C

DrunkenAlcoholic That fetch program is pretty sweet! Where can I find it?

DrunkenAlcoholic

Matt C

https://gitlab.com/DrunkenAlcoholic/pasfetch