How to setup freshly installed Manjaro for development

manjaro-fresh-install.md

How to setup freshly installed Manjaro for development.

OS Settings

• Pamac
  • Enable AUR support.
  • Enable Snap support.
  • Enable fastest mirrors.
    • Select India from the list of mirrors.
    • Click Refresh Mirrors List
  • Rankmirrors to Set the Fastest Download Server
    • sudo pacman-mirrors -g
• Increase touchpad and mouse speeds.
• Fonts
  • Install MS Fonts.
• Enable TRIM for SSD
  • sudo systemctl enable fstrim.timer
• Check inotify watchers
  • sysctl fs.inotify

Update BIOS Firmware

• Install gnome-firmware
• Check for firmware updates and install if available.

Install latest sound firmware.

• sof-firmware
• pulseaudio-git

Zsh

• Check if Zsh is installed.
  • zsh --version
• Check if Zsh is default shell
  • echo $SHELL
• If not installed or default shell, follow instructions

Oh My Zsh

• Install Oh My Zsh.

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

• Use pre configured .zshrc.
• Install powerlevel10k theme.

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k

• Install powerlevel10k patched fonts. Follow instructions.
• Install zsh-completions

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:=~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-completions

• Install zsh-autosuggestions

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

• Install zsh-syntax-highlighting

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Keys

• Setup SSH Keys
• Setup GPG Keys

Git Config

git config --global color.branch auto
git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.status auto

git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com

Applications

• Vim
• Google Chrome
• VS Code
• Nodejs
• Go (golang)
• Yarn
• NVM
• Tilix
• VLC
• Spotify
• Slack
• Bluejeans
• Calibre
• Peek
• Simple Screen Recorder

Gnome Extensions

• Sound Input & Output Device Chooser
• Clipboard indicator
• Vitals
• Bluetooth quick connect
• Disconnect Wifi
• Bing Wallpaper Changer

VS Code Extensions

• Prettier
• ESLint
• EditorConfig
• Visual Studio Intellicode
• Git Lens
• Github Pull Requests and Issues
• Markdown All in One
• YAML
• Dracula Theme

Other Setups

• AWS Setup
  • Install AWS CLI
    • pip install awscli --upgrade --user
  • Configure AWS profile
    • aws configure --profile=username