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# Post-install Setup

## GPU Drivers

### Nvidia

For Nvidia drivers, make sure to check your distribution's "Driver Manager" if available; The Driver manager of your Distro should be able to automatically detect your GPU and install appropriate drivers.

**If there is no "Driver Manager" included, but your Distro is still based on Ubuntu, you can run `sudo ubuntu-drivers install` in a Terminal, and it should install anyways**

### AMD / Intel

AMD and Intel GPU drivers are already included with the Linux Kernel, there is no need to install them seperately.

## Installing software

on all of the Distributions recommended, there is generally a software store you can use to download your favourite programs.

### Windows Programs

Whilst no Windows program will run "officially", a lot of them are usable through Wine.
Wine is a program which "translates" Windows software to something your Linux/macOS system can understand in realtime.
It's comparable to Apple's Rosetta 2 in it's concept *(not in actual code tho)*

The easiest way to use Wine, is to use a helper program called [Bottles](https://usebottles.com/), or for games you can use [Lutris](https://lutris.net/)

**Always remember that this is NOT a perfect solution! many programs, like Adobe's software Suite will not work without massive workarounds, if you depend on Windows software for your job or else, have a seperate Windows installation ready!**

### Games

Most games can be played through Steam, for the ones that aren't on Steam, [Lutris](https://lutris.net/) is a great tool
Make sure to enable Proton for all games in `Steam Settings > Steam Play`

**Protondb.com can help in finding out what games run well, and which don't, as well as getting community insight on getting games to run with workarounds**

*[Linux Distribution]: An Operating System made using Linux
*[Linux Distributions]: Operating Systems made using Linux
*[Linux Distros]: Operating Systems made using Linux
*[Linux Distro]: An Operating System made using Linux
*[Wayland]: A modern Display Server Protocol, which is aimed at replacing X.org
*[ootb]: Out Of The Box (By Default)
*[PipeWire]: Software for Multimedia processing on Linux
*[PipeWire-Pulse]: An addition to Pipewire, which adds Audio functionality compatible with PulseAudio
*[PulseAudio]: An older Audio implementation used on Linux, which has been mostly replaced by PipeWire
*[Offline Upgrades]: Upgrades/Updates, which reboot the PC to apply