Software reference

APPS

A/V: Kodi - VLC - Blender - Gimp - Shotwell - Davinci Resolve

Music: FL Studio - Reaper - Audacity - Ampache - Spotify - Strawberry

Games: Steam - Minecraft - Twitch

TOOLS

Mediawiki - Wordpress

LibreOffice - qBitTorrent - Cura

vscode - ne - Qt Creator - Emacs - GitLab

irc - slack- pidgin - XMPP - Rocket.Chat - zoom

i3 - UnixPorn - terminal - kitty - screen - albert

maim - copyq

mame - Simon - Kaldi - Q2A

Chrome - Firefox - Brave - Vivaldi - Tor - Okular

DBeaver - pgadmin4 - Studio 3T - Sqlite Explorer

postgres - sqlite - mongodb - mysql - SQL Server

Docker - ninja - gcc - git - eslint

TrueNAS - Linux software raid - Wireshark - Apache

ssh - gpg - haproxy - dnsmasq - geth

proxmox - SPICE - vnc - Remote Desktop

WireGuard - TailScale - OpenVPN

GCP - AWS

systemd - xrandr - samba - fail2ban - ntp

Software Under Review

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OS installation

Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade Ubuntu 22.04 upgrade Linux barebones quickstart Ubuntu quickstart Ventoy ISO boot disk Raspberry Pi Kali quickstart Centos quickstart Cygwin quickstart OS X Update gentoo kernel Upgrade gentoo Windows 10 quickstart Install cygwin Disable automatic restarts Install Group Policy Editor from an admin Powershell console: @echo off pushd "%~dp0" dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~3*.mum >List.txt dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~3*.mum >>List.txt for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . List.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\%%i" pause Run Group Policy Editor to disable restarts: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Configure Automatic Updates (o) Enabled [2] Notify for download and auto install? Or [3] Auto download and notify for install? Going with [3], we'll see. (or...) (o) Enabled: No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations --- No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installation (just in case) (o) Enabled --- (reboot if you had to change it? or will that wipe it out? tbd...) In a corporate environment, you should quit your job - I mean, you will likely have to redo this after ANY f'in reboot. Memtest boot disk It should be on red-on-black flash drive. Or, get a fresh download of USB zip, it includes a Windows exe to create the boot. Or use the ISO. Ubuntu upgrade / reinstall notes Create and boot from Ubuntu USB There should always be a boot USB for this in my set, but it needs recreation on new Ubuntu versions... Download the latest 64-bit Ubuntu desktop iso Format a USB drive as FAT (NOT exFAT or NTFS) Burn the iso to the USB, providing a GB of space (we want to add the nvidia driver once booted) sudo usb-creator-gtk Boot with it On startup, select the USB EFI boot option in refind, select "Try Ubuntu", (on MBPro, hit e and add [ nouveau.noaccel=1] to grub line), hit F10 to start Once it is running, start System Settings, select Software, enable proprietary drivers Install, checking the [download as you go] and [install 3rd party stuff] boxes.

Ubuntu set up networking
Install NetworkManager, as the wpagui UI sucks sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome YOU MUST remove interfaces from /etc/network/interfaces so wpa gives them up to nm-applet add nm-applet to startup if needed - i don't think it is needed as it seems to start up automatically now - try rebooting first