So I've decided to try and switch my complete development environment to Ubuntu from Windows. I've used Ubuntu before but just for general use. Excited :D

Any essentials or anything to get?

sudo apt install:

Vs code,
Spotify,
Xampp,
Neofetch,
Nvidia drivers (if Nvidia GPU == true),
Aaand....
Snap
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@Desinika thaanks, will install those x)

@Torbuntu mostly web development, but Java too

qmmp as music player

Terminator for awesome split window shells

@AndSoWeCode I just installed the lamp stack

@AndSoWeCode see you point, I'm personally just used to run xampp and run things from there. On mac usually mamp so.. it comes automatically for me and seems simpler

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Not sure why, but Ubuntu 18.04 is kinda laggy on my laptop :/ I've got 8GB Ram and gave it a storage of 300GB

Docker all the things!!!!!!

@shahlin have you checked the drivers?

Happy coding ubuntu style

Install mutate for keyboard shortcuts, rofi for a more functional app switch, and clipper for good access to your clipboard history. Remmina for VNC and RDP(if necessary). KVM/qemu/libvirt for a local virtual environment.

Fast WiFi drivers. I was too lazy to do so for a month and boyyyyyy it's painful.

@AndSoWeCode Thank you for that I saw that thefuck somewhere thing but could not find it.

Yeah and Insomnia is :love: .

@shahlin Ubuntu is a BIG distro, I recommend installing it on an SSD, it's not as bad as Windows 10 but still...

Thanks everyone, for your suggestions 🕺 I'm gonna try Ubuntu for a few days, if it's really slow, I'll just switch to a lighter distro

@Desinika will check, it doesn't lag always, just sometimes, and the thing is in Windows I just do Ctrl Alt Del whenever it crashes 😂 Not sure what to do here

@shahlin

Keep in mind that if it's slow, it's not Ubuntu. It's gnome.

@amatrelan

They walked back on unity for v18. Though if they hadn't, I would have said that Ubuntu isn't slow, unity is.

Don't use gnome, unity, kde, or Cinnamon. They will make you think Linux is slow, unless you run them on the fastest hardware.

Put windows in a VM. Because sometimes you need it.

@TobyAsE I'm using dual boot

@TobyAsE

Life got much simpler and more tolerable when I put Windows on a VM.

@bahua I just had a question. Anyone is welcome to answer x)
Is it common for an Admin account (not root) to not have permissions?
For example, when I try editing/deleting a file inside /usr it always tells me "Permission Denied". So I have to use the terminal to do it.

@shahlin

Unless you know well what you're doing, you shouldn't be deleting files under /usr.

But that's right. Almost everything under /usr is owned by root, and only root can write anything there, depending on the file permissions. but overwhelmingly they should be set to be only writable by root.

@bahua I was just trying to put a new theme that I downloaded to the themes folder. I thought I'd have the permissions since I'm the admin

@amatrelan Yeaah learnt that now x) Thanks

"Admin" that isn't root is just a machination of whatever distro you're using. I have actually never heard of that term before, with regard to Linux user permissions.

I highly recommend you read this as a primer on this question, because it cannot be easily and simply explained with a devrant comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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