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10 Things I Do After Installing Linux Mint
Linux Mint is my favourite distro. It’s fast, super stable and simplistic. Everything works out of the box and it has all of the functionality you’d expect from a great operating system.
Here are 10 Things I do after installing Linux Mint:
1. Setup TimeShift (For Backup and Restore)
Out of the box Linux Mint includes TimeShift which is perfect for setting up scheduled backups. I like to take an immediate backup of my system so if I ever screw things up, it is easy to go back to the initial vanilla state.
After selecting RSYNC for the Snapshot Type. I keep the default settings for everything else during the setup.
Once the setup is complete, I press create and label the first backup
2. Turn off Wi-Fi Power
Follow these commands:
sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf
Chang the value from 3 to 2.
Ctrl + o (Saves the file, press Enter to overwrite)
Ctrl + x (Exits the nano editor)
3. Configure Snap Store
Containerised applications are great, they don’t break my system. Linux mint works with flatpak out of the box but there are certain packages that you can only get in the snap store such as Postman and Beekeeper Studio. So It’s best to have both configured.
To Install, run the following commands in the termainal
sudo rm /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
sudo snap install snap-store
