Having a really hard time switching to Linux...

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  • mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-userspace

    Mouse scroll wheel acceleration in user space

  • Workaround: https://github.com/albertz/mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-userspace. Enables inertia in Chromium and Qt apps, but breaks it in GTK apps (fun!).

  • Fusuma

    Multitouch gestures with libinput driver on Linux (by iberianpig)

  • Workarounds: https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma and https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg (only works on X11).

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • touchegg

    Linux multi-touch gesture recognizer

  • Workarounds: https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma and https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg (only works on X11).

  • ibus-typing-booster

    ibus-typing-booster is a completion input method for faster typing

  • Workaround: https://github.com/mike-fabian/ibus-typing-booster. Works nicely for Gnome and Ubuntu-based distros, while others have a quite elaborate manual setup.

  • egl-wayland

    The EGLStream-based Wayland external platform

  • TLP

    TLP - Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life

  • There is TLP too : https://linrunner.de/tlp/ , but on my laptop with Fedora it wasn't much helping.

  • slimbookbattery

    Slimbook Battery 4

  • I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this already, but try using Slimbook Battery, which is a GUI software to manage battery life. For me personally, this increased battery life from three hours to almost six hours on my Lenovo Yoga 6.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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