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 - 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
ninja - gcc - git - eslint
TrueNAS - Linux software raid - Wireshark - Apache
ssh - gpg - haproxy - dnsmasq - geth
proxmox - SPICE - Docker - OpenVPN - vnc - Remote Desktop
GCP - AWS
systemd - xrandr - samba - fail2ban - ntp
Software Under Review
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| Windows 10 quickstart
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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
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No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installation (just in case)
(o) Enabled
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(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.
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| Memtest boot disk
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| 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.
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| Create and boot from Ubuntu USB
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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.
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| Ubuntu set up networking
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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
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