Pop!_OS Setup

This is how I setup Pop!_OS for software development and personal use.

For reference, I primarily use this setup on a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 (AMD) laptop.

Notes Current Version for this setup: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

Certain commands are catered to the hardware of my laptop. Please modify the commands to your needs.

• e.g. Installing Brave: arch=amd64

All settings are more of a personal preference and some are only applicable for a laptop.

If you are new to Linux, I recommend reading through the commands and understanding what each command does before running them. The Linux community is very helpful, so if you have any questions, please ask!

General Settings

• Tile windows
• Enable night light
• Change device name
• Manage installed languages
  • Remove unwanted languages
• Turn off file history
• Enable automatic trash & temporary file cleanup
• Disable sleep & display timeout
• Show seconds in system clock
  • gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface clock-show-seconds true
• Show week numbers in calendar
  • gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.calendar show-weekdate true
• Laptop Only
  • Touchpad
    • Enable natural scrolling
    • Disable tap to click
    • Disable while typing
  • Show battery percentage
  • Disable suspend when lid is closed
    • cd /etc/systemd/
    • sudo nano logind.conf
    • Uncomment and set HandleLidSwitch=ignore

Install & Configure Software

• Update system

  • sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
  • sudo apt autoremove -y
  • sudo apt autoclean
  • sudo reboot now

• Alacritty

  • Download from Pop!_Shop
  • Download .yml from GitHub
  • mkdir ~/.config/alacritty
  • mv ~/Downloads/alacritty.yml ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml

• ZSH & Oh-My-Zsh

  • sudo apt install zsh
  • chsh -s $(which zsh)
  • sudo apt reboot now
  • Open new terminal
    • 0
  • sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
  • Restart terminal
  • git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
  • sudo nano ~/.zshrc
    • plugins=(git zsh-autosuggestions)

• Brave Browser

  • sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
  • echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
  • sudo apt update
  • sudo apt install brave-browser
  • Set Brave as default browser in Settings

• VS Code

  • Download .deb file
  • Install with Eddy

• Git

  • git config --global user.name "Your Name"
  • git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
  • git config --global init.defaultBranch master
  • ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"
  • eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
  • ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
  • cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
    • Copy key and paste into GitHub SSH Key settings
  • ssh -T [email protected]
    • yes

• Rust

  • curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
  • 1
  • Restart terminal

• Python

  • sudo apt install python3-pip
  • sudo apt install python3-venv

• NVM & NodeJS & NPM

  • curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash
  • Restart terminal
  • nvm install v20.11.0
  • Check install
    • node --version
    • npm --version

• Neovim

  • sudo apt install ninja-build gettext cmake unzip
  • git clone https://github.com/neovim/neovim
  • cd neovim
  • git checkout v0.9.5
  • make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
  • cd build
  • cpack -G DEB
  • sudo dpkg -i nvim-0.9.5-Linux.deb

• Nerd Fonts (I use JetBrainsMono Nerd Font)

  • Download .zip from website
  • cd ~/Downloads
  • unzip JetBrainsMono.zip -d 3270
  • cd 3270
  • sudo mv -vf *.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts/
  • cd ..
  • rm -rf *
  • nano ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml
    • font:
      • normal:
        • family: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font
        • style: Regular
      • bold:
        • family: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font
        • style: Bold

• Lazyvim

  • git clone https://github.com/LazyVim/starter ~/.config/nvim
  • rm -rf ~/.config/nvim/.git
  • nvim

• Neofetch

  • sudo apt install neofetch

• GIMP

  • sudo apt install gimp

• OBS Studio

  • sudo apt install ffmpeg obs-studio

• Obsidian.md

  • Download .deb file
  • Install with Eddy

Finishing Touches

• sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
• sudo apt autoremove -y
• sudo apt autoclean
• sudo reboot now