Linux

Overview

Health Check
Setup
Troubleshooting

Health Check

Network: Wifi/Eth
Audio: Speakers/Headset/Mic
Other: Brightness, Battery, Touchpad, Mouse, Webcam
Dual-Boot: Does this affect other checks?

Note: The zenbook audio gets messed up due to the dual boot.

Option 1: Shut down Windows completely before starting Ubuntu.
Option 2: Disable fast-boot for Windows (not sure if it works).

Setup

See the installation document.

Resources:

i3: https://i3wm.org/docs/
Playerctl : https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl
rofi: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
Howdy: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy (face recognition based login).

TODO:

fzf
ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
virtualenv
blacken
bat
...

Troubleshooting

grub-repair

First, install both Windows and Linux and modify the BIOS to only allow UEFI boots.

Boot from a linux live CD, install boot-repair and use it.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install  boot-repair
boot-repair

nvidia

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-440 nvidia-settings

Xorg

Check for Xorg login errors:

cat ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | grep EE