This is mostly for my benefit. Things to go from blank machine to fully functioning work laptop.
- Download mint cinnamon x64 torrent
- Burn to USB stick
- Configure Dell XPS 13 to use AHCI mode
- Boot to stick with
F12 - Install mint
- Bootstrap my dotmatrix package list my bootstrap file
Like this (don’t laugh/cringe):
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/timabell/dotmatrix/master/bin/bootstrap.sh | sh
This installs my usual package list
- Run updates
- Configure nemo file manager to always use list view
- Run syncthing-gtk from system menu (auto-installs syncthing binary)
- Configure syncthing not to route over internet (no relay, no public discovery, no NAT traversal)
- Configure firewall-config to allow syncthing
- Add manual service syncthing
- Allow tcp 22000 and 21027 udp
- Make home network use home zone
- Add syncthing to home zone
- Runtime to permanent
- Tell new and old devices about each other in syncthing, watch
~/Documentsetc magically sync - Install slack (flatpak, in software manager), sign in. - slack promote the snap version but that’s not installed by default.
- Install dotfiles by running dotmatrix/bin/install (repo clone already pulled across with syncthing)
- Generate ssh key
ssh-keygen, add key to github - Link tomboy to sync’d notes (I use syncthing, not the built-in tomboy sync)
cd ~/.local/share
ln -s ~/Documents/tomboy
- Install jetbrains toolbox
- Customize time in task bar to
| %H:%M:%S %p | %e %b %Y | - Lock screen with
Win+L- start > keyboard > system > lock screen (Windows user habits) - Switch to z-shell
chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh- https://askubuntu.com/questions/131823/how-to-make-zsh-the-default-shell/131838#131838 - Setup touchpad
- Setup terminal colours and turn off transparency
- Trello card number addon: https://userstyles.org/styles/79880/trello-card-ids-small (with stylish plugin, installed by firefox sync)
- Pomodoro timer in task bar: https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/131
- Turn off all the system sounds and turn the volume down to 0%
Ruby setup
cd some-project
asdf install
gem install bundler
NodeJs setup
asdf plugin-add nodejs
bash ~/.asdf/plugins/nodejs/bin/import-release-team-keyring
asdf install nodejs 8.16.1
node -v
Keyring because nodejs packages are signed and validated https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs#install
Postgres
sudo apt install postgresql
Setup my user, see https://github.com/timabell/schema-explorer/blob/master/pg/setup-me.sh
XPS firmware updates
fwupdmgr get-devices
fwupdmgr get-updates
fwupdmgr update
- inotify increase for:
- RubyMine
- Guard - https://github.com/guard/listen/wiki/Increasing-the-amount-of-inotify-watchers
- Syncthing
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p
refs:
Fix shutter edit
todo
- remove firefox tabs - because I use Tree Style Tabs
- rest of dotmatrix things
- install asdf version manager for all the things (ruby, node, golang etc.)