Setup guides¶

OS setup guides

Linux: Firmware issues, GRUB bugs, advanced partitioning, compression, workarounds, CUDA, …

macOS: Security, settings, Brew, ZSH, …

Windows: Package managers, services, updates, drivers, utils, WLS, …

Nix shells: ZSH, shell config, and dot files (referenced by other guides)

Git, SSH, and GPG: Git, GitHub, SSH, GPG, and signed commits (referenced by other guides)

General

Research projects: Suggestions for organizing computational research projects

Various software

Arduino: Bash scripts to download and install arduino

ffmpeg: Bash scripts to download, build, and install ffmpeg with extensions

Mamba and Conda-Forge: Instructions for MicroMamba and Conda-Forge

MariaDB: Advanced configuration for MariaDB, and installing it as non-root

Scripts referenced in OS setup guides

commonrc-config.sh: Script to manage your .commonrc

commonrc.sh: Example .commonrc file

add-bookmarks.sh: Add GNOME Files bookmarks

gh-aliases.sh: Defines Git aliases

apprise.sh: Tiny logging library for shell scripts (required)

Scripts referenced in other guides

• install-ffmpeg.sh Builds ffmpeg with plugins
• find-crontab.sh Lists crontab file paths in any OS
• install-mariadb-non-root.sh Set up MariaDB without sudo
• back-up-mariadb.sh Export robust .sql.zst files
• write-mariadb-schema.sh: Write .sql schema files
• apprise.sh: Tiny logging library for shell scripts (required)

Other scripts

• extract.sh: A script to extract compressed files and archives
• todos.sh: Finds TODO and FIXME comments
• gh-log.sh: Git log with GitHub commit URLs
• copy.sh: rsync pretending to be cp (EXPERIMENTAL)
• create-btrfs-backup.sh: Btrfs-specific backups (EXPERIMENTAL)