What to do after installing linux mint 18.3

Linux Mint is one of the most popular Linux distributions today and there is no shortage of reasons for this. This project led by Clem Lefebvre puts the user at the center of the experience with the system. In this way the distribution has as a priority objective to be easy to use and friendly even for less experienced users, which is why many consider it as the best system for newbies in Linux, even above Ubuntu, the distribution in which based. Despite this, this system is not perfect and requires user intervention in some aspects. What to do after installing Linux Mint 18.3.

Considerations and steps to follow after installing Linux Mint 18.3

Thanks to these steps that we are going to describe to you, the Linux Mint 18.3 system will be completely ready to be used in the best possible way. Before we start we have to consider some important points.

• Linux Mint comes by default with most audio and video codecs, so in general we will not need to do anything to reproduce our files except for very specific cases. Synaptic comes installed by default, this is apt's graphical package manager and it will help us to manage everything in a simpler way than with the terminal, so feared by the least experts in Linux (although it is not so bad). Linux Mint 18.3 is based on Ubuntu 16.04 so the packages and commands of the latter are fully compatible except for very isolated and specific cases such as those related to snap packages that are not present in Linux Mint. Linux Mint comes in various versions with various desktop environments, the main version uses Cinnamon although our tips will work for all versions.

Now yes, we are going to see step by step the most important points that we must take into account after installing Linux Mint 18.3

Run Update Manager

It is possible that updates have been released since the Linux Mint 18.3 installation images were released, these updates guarantee the stability, security and best performance of the system, so it is very important to have our Linux Mint fully updated. For this we only have to open a terminal and enter the following commands:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade

Install proprietary drivers

By default Linux Mint 18.3 installs free drivers for our devices such as AMD or Nvidia graphics card, for better performance we can install the proprietary drivers in a very simple way. We just have to go to the Preferences> Additional Drivers menu, once there we select the proprietary driver and accept.

Install the missing language packs

During the installation of Linux Mint 18.3 we can select the Spanish language, however, some packages are not installed so we have to do it manually so that everything is in perfect Spanish by Cervantes or at least the untranslated parts are the least possible. For this we use the following command in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install language-pack-gnome-en language-pack-en language-pack-kde-en libreoffice-l10n-en thunderbird-locale-en thunderbird-locale-en-es thunderbird-locale-en-ar

Install TLP Battery Manager

Power management in Linux is one step below Windows, at least in most cases. To improve it we can install the TLP package that does not come by default and will help us save a little energy to improve the autonomy of the battery. If your computer is not a laptop, you can skip this step.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: linrunner / tlp sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw

Install Steam

Most gamers can install Steam to access a large catalog of games in Linux Mint 18.3.

sudo apt install steam

Install Git

Git is version control software designed by Linus Torvalds, thinking about the efficiency and reliability of maintaining application versions when they have a large number of source code files. Installing Git in Linux Mint 18.3 is really easy, we just need to enter the following command:

sudo apt-get install git-all

Related to Git we have an Erik Dubois script that allows us to install with a single command some of the most popular packages such as the following:

• SpotifySublime TextVarietyInkscapePlankScreenfetchGoogle Chromeadobe-flashplugincatfishclementinecurldconf-clidropboxevolutionfocuswriterfrei0r-pluginsgearygpickglancesgpartedgrsynchardinfoinkscapekazamnemo-dropboxradiotrayscreenrulerscreenfetchscrotshutterslurmterminatorthunarvlcvnstatwinbindgeditnpm

For this we will use the following command:

git clone https://github.com/erikdubois/Ultimate-Linux-Mint-18-Cinnamon.git cd Ultimate-Linux-Mint-18-Cinnamon /./quick-install-v2.sh

Customize desktop and appearance

Aesthetics may not be the strong point of Linux Mint, this is something that we can solve in a very simple way by installing additional themes taking advantage of the fact that we have installed Git, we see once again the usefulness of this powerful tool.

git clone https://github.com/erikdubois/themes-icons-pack.git./all-in-once-installation_deb_themes.sh

With this we will already have a large number of modern and attractive themes from which to choose our favorite. To change them we just have to go to Themes in the Cinnamon configuration menu. With this we will have our Linux Mint 18.3 perfectly configured and ready to enjoy.

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