1. Install Updates#

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

2. Some Configuration#

To add the “Maximize” button to windows:
“Settings → Desktop → General → Show maximize button”
To automatically hide the dock on all displays:
“Settings → Desktop → Dock → Show dock on Display: All Displays"
"Settings → Desktop → Dock → Intelligently hide”

3. Set Time Format to 24H#

“Settings → Date and Time → Time format: 24-hour”

4. Install Some Applications#

• Google Chrome
• PhpStorm (Flatpak): IDE
• Refind: For a sleek multi-boot
• Filezilla (Flatpak): FTP for special cases
• Spotify (Flatpak)
• Discord (Flatpak)
• DBeaver (Flatpak): Database client
• Terminator: Virtual terminal
• Remmina: Remote desktop client
• Insomnia: To test APIs
• Visual Studio Code: To eventually get into it…
• Zsh and Oh My Zsh: Command-line interpreter

sudo apt-get install zsh
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

• MySQL client

sudo apt-get install mysql-client

• Docker and Docker Compose

sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose