straight after (Debian based) GNU Linux OS setup, usually doing those modifications to:

• speed up boot & start of programs
  • grub timetout 1sec
  • shotcuts for faster start of programs
    • in MATE Desktop Alt+F2 -> fox, will start firefox (no need to type the full word)
• make sure every ext3/ext4 on fast SSD/NVMe is filesystem checked on boot
• basic security enhancing by stopping/disabling ssh on boot
• basic tools (gui and non-gui) tools are installed

as wordperss is often messing up special chars when pasting… need to provide it as downloadable file (it’s just text).

lsb_release -d; # tested on
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

mkdir /scripts
cd /scripts
wget https://dwaves.de/install_basics.sh

# checkout what it does
less https://dwaves.de/install_basics.sh
chmod +x *.sh
./install_basics.sh

related links:

GNU Linux Debian – basic simple update.sh script – security-tracker.debian.org tracker status release stable – semi-manual system update method vs full automatic updates – apt can do https now: update /etc/apt/sources.list http -> https

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