As I always say, I like to avoid manual boring work, and manual repetitive work is always boring for me! So I used to automate my system I use on my laptop with most of stuff I used to use.
Although I'm not big fan of changing my main system too much. And as I'm the author of "Simply Ubuntu" book. I really enjoy using Ubuntu as DevOps engineer as well as end-user.
Using Unity interface for around 8 years, then moving to Gnome-Shell in Ubuntu 18.04 needed a major change in my automation playbook. So I found it nice to post that now! And most of it not just the installation but the configuration too (thanks for dconf).
Packages:
- vim
- terminator
- virtual-box
- docker
- kubectl
- jq
- (long list of tools and utils goes here).
- Tabs to 2 spaces.
- Support for syntax highlighting like go, py, yml ... etc.
- Application menu to top.
- Scroll over dock icons.
- Dock size and fav apps.
- Show date with time and 12h format.
- (another list of UI customizations goes here)
- clipboard
- system-monitor
- unity
- refresh wifi
- alternate tab
- move clock
- Disable history limit.
- Copy to clipboard via xsel.
- Kubectl shell auto-completion.
- Set UI customizations.
- Add some Arabic font customizations. (for example Facebook Arabic font is shitty!)
- Disable menu toggle using `alt` key.
- Schema.
- Set font.
- Tabs to 2 spaces.
- Configure name and email.
- Add some sort cuts like tree view.
- Config Terminator profile.
- Disable snapd -_-
- Make dist upgrade.
That's mostly it, when I decide to setup a new system, I just have 90% of my setup done with one line :-)
