General guidelines and philosophy⌗

I’ll try to keep this as simple as possible to increase maintainability and troubleshooting, and minimize unexpected behavior.

Also, if I can keep something in the user space using Flatpaks without affecting usability, I’ll prefer that to reduce system clutter and increase security.

Devices⌗

PC Master Race

OS: Amy OS
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 GB
RAM: 32 GB (4 x Geil Super Luce 8 GB DDR4 3200MHz)
NVMe: 1 TB (2 x Adata XPG Spectrix S40G 512 GB)
Motherboard: ASUS TUF Gaming X570-PRO (Wi-Fi)
Mouse: Logitech G305
Keyboard: HyperX Alloy Origins Core (with Razer Pink PBT keycaps)
Headphones: Audio-Technica ATH-M50x (with a FiiO BTA10) and Sony Inzone H9

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

OS: Alpine Linux
RAM: 8 GB

Apple MacBook Air M1 2020

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra

BIOS config⌗

Restore defaults
Set RAM to 3200MHz
Enable Resizable Bar
Enable virtualization
Enable Secure Boot
Disable CSM
Customize fans speed to maximize silence

Specific for Fedora ⌗

Speedy encryption on NVMe Devices

sudo nvim /etc/crypttab

Add these flags:

discard,no-read-workqueue,no-write-workqueue

And regenerate the initramfs with:

sudo dracut -f --regenerate-all

DNF tweaks

Add this:

sudo nvim /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

fastestmirror=True
max_parallel_downloads=10

Add RPM Fusion repos

sudo dnf in https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Update system

sudo dnf up

Tip: You can install only the most important updates with:

sudo dnf up-min

Specific for Amy OS ⌗

Speedy encryption on NVMe Devices

sudo nvim /etc/crypttab

Add these flags:

discard,no-read-workqueue,no-write-workqueue

sudo dmsetup table

sudo cryptsetup --allow-discards --perf-no_read_workqueue --perf-no_write_workqueue --persistent refresh luks-blablabla

For all distros⌗

Steam tweaks⌗

Enable Steam Play in Steam settings
Set launch options (per game) to:

gamemoderun %command%

Try Proton-GE-Custom with ProtonUp-Qt

CS2⌗

Launch options:

gamemoderun %command% -vulkan -novid -fullscreen

Sonic Adventure⌗

https://gamebanana.com/tuts/16934

GTA IV⌗

Launch options:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" gamemoderun %command%

Git⌗

git config --global color.ui true

git config --global user.name "astrovm"

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"

cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

Paste to https://github.com/settings/ssh

git config --global user.signingkey CC39C6D77BDF0053

git config --global commit.gpgsign true

Brave/Chromium extensions⌗

GNOME extensions⌗

NetworkManager randomize⌗

(Amy OS default config)

sudo nvim /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/99-randomize-mac-address.conf

[device-mac-randomization]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=yes

[connection-mac-randomization]
ethernet.cloned-mac-address=random
wifi.cloned-mac-address=random

sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

configs