lmd
LinuxNot Lmd, nor LMD. Just lmd
.
lmd
Linux multiboots just fine. Make sure to install it last for best results.
Copy this ISO image to a USB stick and boot it.
Choose your location and language, connect to the internet (required, the image should have all the WiFi firmware you need, in case everything fails USB-tethering a smartphone always works), enter your real and user names, set your user password.
Select manual partitioning.
fwupd
. You do not
need to create an additional EFI System Partition if one already exists because you're
installing next to another Windows or Linux OS.
/
partition using the rest of your drive. It must be
btrfs
, and using the noatime
mount option is recommended. Do not create any other
partitions; subvolumes are going to be automatically created.
Confirm your partitioning and you're all done. The rest of the process will take 5 to 20 minutes
depending on your machine and internet connection. A very long time may be spent showing
"Running preseed...", this is normal, it's when the lmd
magic happens so please just be
patient.
Chrome comes pre-installed but is optional. You can remove it with:
sudo apt purge google-chrome-stable
lmd-japanese-input
Tools, fonts and configuration for Japanese input. The default key combination for cycling through
input methods is Super+Space
. The Super key is sometimes called the Windows key.
Install with:
sudo apt install lmd-japanese-input
Then log out and back in.
intel-undervolt
Undervolt Intel CPU Core generations 6th to 10th and some others. Note that using the daemon mode
to set a performance hint may conflict with tlp
which is automatically installed by lmd
Linux on
laptops.
Install with:
sudo apt install intel-undervolt
Reboot, read the instructions,
then edit /etc/intel-undervolt.conf
to increase your undervolt little by little.
lmd-nomitigations
Disable CPU and i915 vulnerability mitigations. This is not recommended for use in most situations. Only install this package if you know exactly what you're doing because it has serious security implications.
Install with:
sudo apt install lmd-nomitigations
Then reboot.
lmd
linux comes with a sophisticated gaming setup allowing you to play almost all your Steam,
Epic. GOG or Amazon Prime games. They may even play faster than on Windows. To install it, paste the
following in a terminal:
curl -L lmd-linux.github.io/gaming | sudo bash
If you have an Nvidia GPU please refer to the NVIDIA Proprietary Driver instructions for Debian. The latest drivers for AMD and Intel GPUS, whether discrete or integrated, are already installed.
This will automatically install a number of tools and low-level configurations, some of them not available anywhere else, as well as the following packages:
Default hotkeys are Left_Shift+Equal
to toggle the HUD and Left_Shift+Minus
to cycle through the
various FPS limit values.
Click on the Steam Installer entry in your desktop menu to automatically install and setup the Steam client..
If you want to use MangoHud and/or GameMode in a Steam game, click on the cog icon to the right of the game page, select Properties, and in the General tab add one of these in the LAUNCH OPTIONS box:
mangohud gamemoderun %command%
mangohud --dlsym gamemoderun %command%
gamemoderun %command%
The first one should almost always work. Very rarely you will have to add --dlsym
like on the
second line. And even more rarely, you will have to disable MangoHud entirely like on the third
line.
If you have an old device with inexistent, incomplete or broken Vulkan support, you will also often
have to prefix each of these lines with PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1
, for example:
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 mangohud gamemoderun %command%
Use it for Epic, GOG, Amazon Prime as well as manually installed games. You can enable and configure
MangoHud, GameMode and gamescope in the UI. You can also download and manage Wine GE and Proton GE
versions, or choose the Wine version provided by lmd
as a backup. You can even integrate all your
games into Steam in case you want to use its Big Picture Mode as a launcher for example.
Comes with some basic pre-configuration. Don't forget to go into the Online Updater in the main menu, and run all the Update utilities (Core Info Files, Controller Profiles, etc…). Also, make sure to run the Core System Files Downloader after installing cores that require extra assets.