Before doing all of these, make sure to have a backup of everything and if your using VsCode make sure you use settings sync. It will sync up all of your settings obviously and all configurations. This will be very convenient on moving from one system to the other.
- Download & Install PopOS (https://pop.system76.com/) Essential Apps
- VsCode/Sublime
- Blender
- Flameshot
- Noisetorch (https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch)
- Zoom
- Postman
- Chrome
- NodeJS
- Install npm (
sudo apt install npm) - Install yarn (
npm i -g yarn)
- Install npm (
- Install Yaru theme icons (https://blog.devget.net/linux/how-to-install-ubuntu-yaru-theme-in-pop_os-20-04/)
- Disable the following extensions included on PopOS
- Cosmic Dock
- Dektop Icons
- Pop Cosmic
- To be able to do more desktop customizations install Gnome Tweak
sudo apt install gnome-tweaks - Install and do the following gnome tweaks
- Install Impatience - this will allow you do adjust window animations (Might not be needed anymore actually)
- Under General, disable Animations
- Under Apperance->Icons, select Yaru
- Change the background and lock screen
- Termincal customization
- Install zsh (https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Installing-ZSH)
- Install Oceanic Next terminal them (https://github.com/belmer/oceanic-next)
- You may need to run this using bash.
- Also bunch of logout attempts to make the changes take effect.
- Once profile is installed, you may want to change the background color to #2D2E2F
- Vscode config
- Enable settings sync (Gear Icon, Lower right)
- Login to github
- Download and install source code pro font