18.10 Workstation
Work-in-progress
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The setup for a typical workstation includes the following:
- An Ubuntu Operating System
- Setup on a notebook (PhD students)
- Setup on an external hard drive (student assistants), together with a QR-code linking to a video on how to use the “system”
The following apps are pre-installed based on a shell script:
- General
- First-steps file (on desktop), covering git config, ssh, gpg, github account, and a link to the handbook (onboarding section)
- Instead of a pre-installed E-Mail client, we recommend the web interface? (Thunderbird currently requires a paid owl extension)
- Browser: Handbook as the default page
- Paper Docker container
- Via apt
- Back-in-time
- Docker Engine
- Git
- Python
- R
- Visual Studio Code
- Zoom
- Zotero (with chrome plugin)
- Via flatpak
- LibreOffice
- KeepassXC
- Obsidian (with chrome plugin)
- OBS Studio
- Via Pip
- Jupyter
Shell script:
# Remove snap
# list all snaps
snap list
# some snaps are dependent on other snaps, snap will tell you which one shall be removed first
## first, remove all packages with Notes "-"
sudo snap remove --purge firefox
sudo snap remove --purge firmware-updater
sudo snap remove --purge gnome-3-38-2004
sudo snap remove --purge gnome-42-2204
sudo snap remove --purge gtk-common-themes
sudo snap remove --purge snap-store
sudo snap remove --purge snapd-desktop-integration
## second, remove all packages with Notes "base"
sudo snap remove --purge bare
sudo snap remove --purge core20
sudo snap remove --purge core22
## last, remove all packages with Notes "snapd"
sudo snap remove --purge snapd
# remove the snapd package itself, including configuration files
sudo apt purge snapd
sudo apt remove --purge gnome-software-plugin-snap
#sudo apt autoremove --purge snapd gnome-software-plugin-snap
# remove residual directories
rm -rf ~/snap
sudo rm -rf /snap
sudo rm -rf /var/snap
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/snapd
sudo rm -rf /var/cache/snapd/
# prevent snapd to be installed again
sudo apt-mark hold snapd
# prevent Ubuntu from automatically reinstalling snapd in the future
cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
# To prevent repository packages from triggering the installation of Snap,
# this file forbids snapd from being installed by APT.
# For more information: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html
Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10
EOF
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# disable all pre-installed (Ubuntu) gnome-extensions to enhance system stability
gnome-extensions disable ding@rastersoft.com
gnome-extensions disable tiling-assistant@ubuntu.com
gnome-extensions disable ubuntu-appindicators@ubuntu.com
gnome-extensions disable ubuntu-dock@ubuntu.com
## restore maximize and unmaximize shortcut in Ubuntu 24.04 (by default deactivated due to tiling-assistant@ubuntu.com)
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings maximize "['<Super>Up']"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings unmaximize "['<Super>Down']"
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# set up flatpak
sudo apt install flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
# sudo reboot
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# install GUI apps from flathub
flatpak install flathub md.obsidian.Obsidian
flatpak install flathub com.obsproject.Studio
flatpak install flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice
flatpak install flathub org.keepassxc.KeePassXC
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Create a default folder structure
Setup
To set up an external hard drive, …