Setting Up Ubuntu

Recently switched over to using Ubuntu from Windows due to having some issues with running Windows 10 on the desktop. Here’s a quick guide on what I did to get everything set up.

Installation

Pretty simple, just set up a USB stick with Ubuntu on it. When install, using the following configurations:

• Minimal installation
• Install third party tools (save time later)

Once the installation completes, I make sure to set up the display correctly for monitors, including:

• Setting scale to %200
• Turning on the night light

And then a few steps before installing software:

• Set up Livepatch (security updates)
• Unpin favorites
• Signing into Firefox with my Firefox account.
• Move Dock to the bottom.

Software

I install the following:

• Dropbox
• Franz (login, set dark mode, turn off todos, notifications)
• Mailspring (dark theme, add accounts, turn notifications off)
• VSCode (download FiraCode, sync settings)
• PyGrid (set xdivs to 3, automatic startup)
• Azure CLI
• MySQL Workbench
• OpenVPN Connect (sudo apt-get install openvpn, set up server profiles)
• Remmina (for remoting into Windows PCs)
• Terraform
• kubectl
• Gnome Tweak Tools (animations off, set dark theme, application menu off, 1 static workspace)
• .NET Core SDK
  • Azure Functions Core Tools
• VirtualBox (with a Windows 10 VM with 8GB memory, 100GB hard drive space) with the following installed:
  • VS2019
  • SSMS
  • SQL Server Express
  • Dropbox
  • Git