Here are some optional configuration for a better user experience. We officially have a minimal functioning desktop! However we’re missing a few common functionality that one expects from a desktop environment (screen brightness, sound, volume, etc.). Improving the desktop experience (Optional, but recommended): For my laptop, Fn2…Fn6 corresponds to tty2…tty6. In this case, you’ll have to either: - Force shutdown and boot up your computer via power management (e.g, press and hold power button) - Go to another tty (virtual terminal) via - and login. If you didn’t install a terminal emulator previously, you might be frustrated that pressing the button doesn’t do anything. Pressing ‘Yes’ with the mouse will stop the session. I just chose Yes and the default windows key. There will be prompts to create a config file, and to choose which key as your key. Install the package and enable the service: Let’s pick the easiest approach and install the network-manager to help us configure wifi connection. įeel free to skip this section if you don’t need WiFi.Walk through installer, Make a root (/) and home (/home) partition. I recommend just installing the alternative installer.While we can use the main installer, the alternative installer allows us to do extra operations such as reusing partitions, which is what I needed. First we need to download the installer.Ethernet connection (otherwise might run into wifi issues with Ubuntu Server installation) Install Ubuntu Server.Should be fine since from Ubuntu 12 onwards, desktop and server versions use the same kernel. Wanted to install the “desktop” libraries myself instead of using the default ones in the Ubuntu Desktop installer. However, I decided to go with Ubuntu because of the vast community support and resources available online. The primarily purpose of this installation is to act as a host OS for multiple guest VMs. Initially I wanted to use Debian because of its stability. There are a plethora of linux distributions. Here are notes I wrote down for setting up a minimal Ubuntu installation on a laptop, with i3 as the tiling window manager.
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