Setting up New Development Laptop

Personal notes for setting up development laptop.

Create new Admin account in Windows Laptop

Create a new user account in your laptop. Link: Create a local user or administrator account in Windows

If your account was created by another, change the password:

Start > Settings > Accounts > Sign-in options > Password > Change and follow directions

Tools

Install via Microsoft Store

Install via Website

Set Admin Privileges for Powershell in Windows Terminal

Open Windows Terminal and follow the steps below:

Settings > Profiles > Windows Powershell > Run this profile as Administrator > Turn On

Install WSL

Install WSL through Windows Terminal. Open Powershell as Administrator. Link: How to install Linux on Windows with WSL

wsl --install

Output:

Installing: Virtual Machine Platform
Virtual Machine Platform has been installed.
Installing: Windows Subsystem for Linux
Windows Subsystem for Linux has been installed.
Installing: Windows Subsystem for Linux
Windows Subsystem for Linux has been installed.
Installing: Ubuntu
Ubuntu has been installed.
The requested operation is successful. Changes will not be effective until the system is rebooted.

Reboot laptop. After reboot, search for Ubuntu and click it. You’ll be prompted to enter a new UNIX username and password.

Ubuntu is already installed.
Launching Ubuntu...
Installing, this may take a few minutes...
Please create a default UNIX user account. The username does not need to match your Windows username.
For more information visit: https://aka.ms/wslusers
Enter new UNIX username: johnsmith
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Installation successful!
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.

Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.133.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com
 * Management:     https://landscape.canonical.com
 * Support:        https://ubuntu.com/advantage


This message is shown once a day. To disable it please create the
/home/johnsmith/.hushlogin file.

Customize bashrc file

Add the following in the ~/.bashrc file.


##########################################################################
#### Any added parameters by admin should be placed below.

#### E: Sets the color of the symlinks to yellow text
LS_COLORS+=':ow=01;33'
#LS_COLORS+=:ow=

#### E: Virtual Env
export WORKON_HOME="~/.virtualenvs"
[[ -x "/usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh" ]] && source "/usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh"

#### E: Setting bash prompt
PS1='\[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\W\[\033[00m\]\$ '

#### E: Aliases
alias ld='ll -d */'
alias lf='ll -p | grep -v /'
alias cl='clear'
alias histgrep='history | grep'
alias gitacp='git add -A; git commit; git push'
alias gitac='git add -A; git commit'
alias gitst='git status'
# alias prodeks='export AWS_PROFILE=specify-name-here'  
alias addalias='vi ~/.bashrc'
alias sr='source ~/.bashrc'
alias dtop='cd /mnt/c/Users/johnsmith/Desktop'
alias dloads='cd /mnt/c/Users/johnsmith/Downloads'
alias gitdir='cd /mnt/c/Users/johnsmith/Desktop/Git'
alias awscreds="sudo vi ~/.aws/credentials"
alias k="kubectl"

# SSH Key
eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
# ssh-add ~/.ssh/add-another-key-here

# NodeJS. NVM
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

# kubectl, terraform, ansible, aws
source <(kubectl completion bash)
complete -C '/usr/local/bin/aws_completer' aws
complete -C /usr/bin/terraform terraform
complete -C /usr/local/bin/terraform terraform

Sync VS Code Settings

Use built-in Settings Sync in VS Code.

For the account, use Github account.

Link: Settings Sync

Set Default Browser

Set Google Chrome as default browser.

Link: Make Chrome your default browser