Ask HN: What are the first things you do with a new laptop? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are the first things you do with a new laptop?

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Post by someoneelse9 » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 3:08 PM UTC

Wipe windows, install OpenBSD (with full disk encryption, mandatory for laptops) and pull down my dotfiles.

Re: Ask HN: What are the first things you do with a new laptop?

#22

Post by helloSam43 » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 5:27 PM UTC

get an ssh-key setup and connected to GitHub or GitLab and d/l my dotfiles. (.zshrc ...) sudo apt-get install aptitude

Re: Ask HN: What are the first things you do with a new laptop?

#23

Post by errantmind » Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 9:01 PM UTC

thiht wrote: post #16

errantmind wrote: post #13

Upgrade RAM to 32GB+ Upgrade storage too, if necessary Wipe storage, install Arch Linux If this is my insecure laptop, turn off all mitigations (spectre / meltdown, etc). Custom compile Linux Kernel with my selected patches and build parameters (like LTO), mostly taken from other projects like Xanmod. Install particular proprietary drivers (nvidia-dkms, etc) Setup X11 Install all my required 'base' packages, like fon…

Just curious, what do you do with 32GB+ of Ram?

I work on a lot of bigger data-oriented projects so having more RAM is essential.