A collection of commands to get Minimal Manjaro set up for a mix of productivity and gaming.
To keep things readable for myself (and anyone else who snags this), I broke everything down into categories like utilities, dependencies for various programs, and finally the apps themselves.
There's also a point when installing utilities that will allow you to choose one or more components for base-devel. Default is to install all when pressing enter. Do what's best (or, more realistically, easiest) for your own purposes.
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Discord can sometimes freeze up in Manjaro, and it's usually because the system is missing a notification daemon. I included notify-osd and dunst, which have both been reliable for me to fix the lockups. When notification daemons don't help, reinstalling wine-staging does.
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foobar2000 might throw playback errors even after successful listening. Reinstalling lib32-alsa-plugins, lib32-libpulse, and lib32-openal seems to fix it.
In winetricks, create a prefix named win32. Then enter the win32 prefix to:
- Run winecfg and set Windows 10 as the Applications tab Windows Version and check all boxes in the Staging tab
- Install ie8 from the Install a Windows DLL or component option
- Install corefonts from the Install a font option
- Close winetricks, open Lutris, and from Wine settings, flip the Runner options switch to Use system winetricks (and then save)
Read more about my Linux setup on the infose.cc blog: https://blog.infose.cc/2021/09/arch-rivals-manjaro-linux-vs-also.html
Enjoy! xoxo