5 Things To Do Right After Installing Linux

One of the most common questions new-to-Linux users ask is, "What things should I do right after installing Linux?" Well...here are five things that I do after I install a Linux distro.

0:00 Intro
0:28 Update the system.
1:40 Install proprietary drivers, codecs and fonts if your distro does not ship them.
5:19 Disable startup applications
7:16 Install snapd and flatpak
9:09 Add/remove softare

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[kuchesezik]

hello, you must add a 0:00 timestamp in order for video chapters to be active. cheers!

[adrianmares]

Something else that would make life easier for new linux users is to install something like Timeshift, it does have to be set up when you first install the system so in the file system choose btrfs, after you do that most distros will make the subvolumes automatically and Timeshift snapshots will be able to work properly. A good thing is to also install btrfs-grub so that in case you mess something up in your system you can always boot into a snapshot and restore the os to a usable state. Extremely useful as a beginner, trust me.

[nealthompson]

10 things I do right after installing Linux:

1. Wonder if I pulled out the USB stick which contains the ISO file at the right time.
2. Second-guess my decision of whether or not to encrypt the system drive.
3. "Reboot yo", just to make sure the installation went okay.
4. Look over all the things in the taskbar (both left and right sides) just to see what's there.
5. Right-click on the taskbar just to see what's in that menu.
6. Right-click on the desktop just to see what's in that menu.
7. Open the actual menu menu and look over what's there.
8. Connect to the internet.
9. Look for GUI ways to update system, app packages, flatpaks.
10. Begin the 5 things in your video.

[erickleefeld]

The EULA on the Microsoft fonts is actually quite short and readable. It comes down to you not making any kind of derivative product from them, and that you have to distribute the entire fonts package together instead of splitting them up (with a carve-out for embedding a font directly for usage in a file such as a PDF).

[_PulpoPaul]

Good video, very useful for me in this moment when I'm configuring a brand new installation

[Tuishimi]

You immediately start tweaking it until you break it! lol

[Skelterbane]

For me, it goes:
install and set up hyprland
set swappiness to 1
switch to zen kernel
set up flatpaks
make pipewire work (impossible, until it isn't)
sync browser tabs
make bash aliases
use said aliases to update the system
use artix, btw

[LucasRC]

Crazy how useful this guide is for beginners in Linux like me. Thank you so much!

[gprn]

Must say, your voice is very pleasant to listen, and best of all, really easy to understand for non-english speaker.
I do also all these 5 things, just remove snap instead of installing it.

[jozsefk]

I use Fedora (by the way) and I created my own scripts which I run and let them do everything for me. Still finalizing them when I have time though.

[markh.]

Telling a newbie to use Terminal is going to push them back to Windoze.

[rafaburdzy]

I would also mention to install or make a snapshot in timeshift,
You can make a snapshot by using a command in terminal $; sudo timeshift --create and later if you can't access some how gui timeshift or app windo for it use command to restore it $; sudo timeshift --restore .

Timeshift restore some changes if you by accident or because of some bad updates mess up your system

[renealbrechtsen]

Could you do a video about what are some of the packages you install during an arch install ?

[DSDeadman]

I am of the same mind about Flatpak, Snap, enter package manager name. I use what I need and don't worry about the drama around them.

[mrbloodyhyphen-]

Be sure to order programmer socks right after installing Linux

[thetrancedemon]

4:27 the software center filter is set to only display snap. maybe there are more options in the dropdown.

[ryebread]

I'm pretty sure the current version of the Ubuntu software center only updates snaps. If you want to update Deb packages too, you either need to use the command line or the Software Updater app (the updater app does both)

[fox-in-the-green]

Some years ago I read an article that (at least some) Linux distros tend to mark each file with the last time it was read (atime) which means that just reading a file causes a write to the disk which is bad for SSDs which have a limited number of writes.

The article advised how to turn this feature off.

Has this been taken into account in current distros as SSDs have become more common or do you still have to do it yourself?

[Babbili]

where do you get these backround images for your vids templates, they look good, i wanna find some good one for my desktop

[aintnochange]

I never installed ms fonts and didn't face any issues on Firefox