Figured that I should document what I need in a fresh installation of Ubuntu; this has been a thing for many years but I just never gotten to doing it because forgor :)
Now I’m setting up the work PC using Ubuntu, so hope this goes well (and that I update this post)
Update (26 June 2026): I have had the (dis)pleasure of setting up two more personal machines, so here goes:
# add PPA, GPG keys as necessary
sudo add-apt-repository -y -n multiverse \
&& sudo add-apt-repository -y -n ppa:linrunner/tlp
wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/sublimehq-pub.asc > /dev/null
printf '%s\n' \
'Types: deb' \
'URIs: https://download.sublimetext.com/' \
'Suites: apt/stable/' \
'Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/sublimehq-pub.asc' \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.sources > /dev/null
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
# installfest
sudo apt install -y build-essential vim curl wget git htop tmux tree jq unzip \
zip rsync net-tools dnsutils traceroute tcpdump nmap lsof ripgrep ncdu \
btop texlive-full sublime-text sublime-merge flatpak python3-smbc tlp \
gnome-software-plugin-flatpak gnome-shell-extension-manager smbclient gimp
sudo apt install -y ttf-mscorefonts-installer
sudo snap install telegram-desktop slack discord spotify
sudo snap install code --classic
sudo snap install obsidian --classic
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub \
https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo \
&& flatpak install -y flathub io.github.focustimerhq.FocusTimer
curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
# get things up
. "$HOME/.cargo/env" && sudo systemctl enable --now tlp && sudo tailscale up
# sanity check
git --version; vim --version | head -n 1; code --version | head -n 1; \
tailscale version; rustc --version; cargo --version