What to install

👩‍💻👨‍💻 Developers, what is the first thing you would install on a freshly bought laptop?

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WobblyPotato

I've only ever purchased 2 laptops but I've setup innumerable systems. The first thing I install is always firefox. Followed by vim/gvim

WigglySushi

Student29mo

You use vim 🗿 what a chad !!! Do you even have a mouse ser ?

WobblyPotato

Very witty and entirely original. I must be put in place with sarcasm for using a native editor instead of a proton based processor hungry behemoth!

CosmicDumpling

Chrome

QuirkyDumpling

Brave

ZestyBurrito

Brave, Us

DancingMuffin

depends on the OS.

Mac: homebrew Linux: chrome Windows: another OS

PeppyBoba

Student29mo

WSL

DancingMuffin

not worth it.

QuirkyPenguin

I'm into distro hoping and here is my checklist

Linux Installation hiccups

Partitioning
Grub preinstalled or not
windows and linux time mismatch
HDD loading issue
VLC closes on opening media file
sudo pacman -S intel-media-driver
Installations➖
1. Touchpad gestures
2. Drivers :- Bluetooth, NVIDIA etc
3. VS code
4. Chrome
5. MongoDB
6. Sublime installation and setup
7. Postman
8. Whatsapp
9. Telegram
10. Discord
11. Notion
12. Spotify
13. Extensions
VS Code➖
1. Sync with github account
2. Extension installations
3. Shortcut mapping
Chrome ➖
1. Login google accounts
2. make different profiles
3. Configure extensions
4. Face page loading but no progress spinner issue
Install ZSH
1. configure ZSH as default shell
2. Install oh-my-zsh themes and auto-suggestion, syntax-highlighting
3. configure oh-my-zsh
login discord, telegram
Windows tiling, zoom etc configure