What are some must-have Linux gaming utilities that you all know about? I just discovered mangohud and goverlay for getting live system resource stats in an overlay while I'm doing my Linux gaming, kind of like rivatuner on Windows... wish I discovered these sooner...

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  • gamemode

    Optimise Linux system performance on demand

  • Feral gamemode is the big one

  • rnnoise

    Recurrent neural network for audio noise reduction

  • RNNoise (behaves similarly to RTX broadcast/voice/whatever the fuck they're calling it now, but with significantly better performance) - plugs into OBS or other programs flawlessly

  • WorkOS

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  • LinuxGamingGuide

    Linux Gaming Guide - An incomplete compilation of things I came across that may improve your gaming experience on Linux

  • A bunch of random high and low-level tweaks

  • steamtinkerlaunch

    Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch options and 3rd party programs

  • Steamtinkerlaunch. That's pretty much the only thing I needed, considering that it consolidates everything in place. I just install it, and its optional dependencies, and done.

  • piper

    GTK application to configure gaming devices

  • Piper - https://github.com/libratbag/piper Mouse specific front end for controlling rgb, button mapping, resolution

  • openrgb-rs

    Rust client library for OpenRGB SDK.

  • OpenRGB - https://openrgb.org/ For all your other RGB stuff

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