Simple configurations for post Ubuntu installation

Currently specific for 20.04 LTS

There are many websites that offer advice and steps to finish tweaking and setting up a new Ubuntu installation. This repo does NOT replace them. In fact, we recommend you read them and tweak to your heart's content.

This repo is for specific post install configs and setup that I like on my Ubuntu desktop. And it serves as a way for me to store these configs so that its easy for me to re-install Ubuntu with a clean slate.

Very similar to the gitops philosophy of configuration management

If I download some binaries (software) and its a tarball. Then I'll extract it to the /opt directory.

• packages.list

list of software packages to download, extract, and add to the appropriate PATH variables

Some people prefer to use /usr/local directory for these binaries. In some cases, maybe using linux brew or finding the appropriate ubuntu ppa makes sense.

The files under home are should be placed in your home directory (~/)

If a file start with _ it should start with .
This wwas changed to that the files are easily visiable within source control, etc.

• _bashrc
  Append this to the end of your ~/.bashrc
• _emacs
  Append this to your ./emacs
• apps.list
  software tarballs that I extract to ~/app
  Similar to /opt packages except these are specific to my user and I'm testing them out
• debs.list
  debian packages to install
• snaps.list
  Ubuntu snap apps to install via sudo snap install slack

The files under etc system wide configurations. Please be careful when you modify them

• fstab
  I have /tmp mounted in memory (opposed to hard disk) to save wear and tear on SSD. This is also faster performance when temp files are required.
  I also have a network file system server that I store all of my photos, videos, and other content to be shared with all of my computers.
• profile
  Some environment variables that are set in .bashrc could be set here. The difference is that if set here in profile then it applies to all users. Need to consider if all users need those env vars, etc
• sources.list
  Contains additional apt repositories (PPA) of other software that I like to install and use.