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From: Tom Smeding <tom.smeding@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 23:15:07 +0200
Subject: First post

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+<p>
+	For any given task that enough people have wanted to do before on a computer, there is a multitude of tools available to perform that task on Linux.
+	Here is a small list of cherry-picked ones that I tend to forget (or that I want to promote :) ).
+	As I use Arch Linux, some may be Arch-specific.
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>
+	<b>pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa</b>. [<a href="https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa/" target="_blank">Arch repos</a>]
+	Assuming you use PulseAudio, if you want to run a very simple equalizer over whatever comes out of your speakers, use this package.
+	The GUI executable is called <code>pulseaudio-equalizer-gtk</code>.
+</p></li>
+<li><p>
+	<b>nload</b>. [<a href="https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nload/" target="_blank">Arch repos</a>]
+	For nice graphs/statistics on current network usage (mbits incoming/outgoing).
+	To show all interfaces, invoke it as <code>nload -m</code>; to show only a single interface, use e.g. <code>nload enp3s0f1</code>.
+</p></li>
+<li><p>
+	<b>paccache</b>. [<a href="https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pacman-contrib/" target="_blank">in pacman-contrib</a>]
+	To flexibly purge package files from the Pacman cache.
+	Pacman proper has <code>--clean</code>, but paccache allows you to remove e.g. all but the most recent three versions of all packages, ignoring stuff related to nvidia:
+	<blockquote>
+paccache -r -k 3 -i nvidia,nvidia-settings,nvidia-utils,opencl-nvidia,linux,linux-firmware,linux-headers,cuda
+	</blockquote>
+	Also check out the other scripts in pacman-contrib, like pacdiff and rankmirrors.
+</p></li>
+<li><p>
+	<b>pdfpc</b>. [<a href="https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pdfpc/" target="_blank">Arch repos</a>]
+	Lightweight PDF presenting, with even some really esoteric features like detecting animated slides in a LaTeX beamer presentation (that doesn't really work in my experience).
+	Multi-monitor support.
+</p></li>
+</ul>
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