I got a brand new Dell Latitude latpop just a few weeks ago. Here are some of the softwares I installed and settings I did to customise it. I wanted to share this because I have been enjoying what I have got going on.

Softwares

• Visual studio 2017 for .Net Core projects
• Visual studio Code as my main text editor
• Hyper as my terminal
• Trello for project management
• Microsoft Todo for tracking todos
• DBeaver for database
• FileZilla for ftp

Setting up WSL

Install ZSH and oh-my-zsh

# Set http_proxy if you are behind proxy
# sudo http_proxy=http://yourserver apt-get update
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt-get install zsh
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install hugo
git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com
git config --global http.sslverify false
git config --global core.autocrlf input
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Make zsh as your default shell by adding below line in your ~/.bashrc

if test -t 1; then
exec zsh
fi

Disable permission errors by adding below in your ~/.zshrc

alias ls='ls 2>/dev/null

Remove username from agnoster theme by changing the prompt_context() with below code

prompt_context() {
  prompt_segment $PRIMARY_FG default  "  🌈  "
}
 
prompt_dir() {
  prompt_segment blue $PRIMARY_FG ' %c '
}

Add below plugins in ~/.zshrc

plugins=(
    git
    node
    npm
    npx
    nvm
    z
)

Install nodejs and yarn

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends yarn
yarn --version

Setup npm

npm config set strict-ssl false
# To set proxy for npm installs -> npm config set proxy http://proxy_host:port

Setup Yarn

yarn config set proxy http://username:password@host:port
yarn config set https-proxy http://username:password@host:port

Fix permission errors when installing global npm modules

mkdir ~/.npm-global
npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'
vim ~/.profile

Add below line in your .profile

export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH

Update system variables

source ~/.profile

Change theme of oh-myzsh

You can change theme of the shell by changing the value of ZSH_THEME="agnoster" in ~/.zshrc

Some theme may want powerline fonts which can be found in below repository. Use the install script in the repo to install all the fonts at once.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass
git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git
.\install.ps1

Install monospaced version of powerline fonts from below link for internal terminal of VSCode and then change the integrated terminal font family to Menlo for Powerline

git clone https://github.com/abertsch/Menlo-for-Powerline.git

Plugins for Visual Studio Code

• Code Runner
• Eslint
• Markdown All in One
• Prettier
• Snazzy Operator
• stylelint

Extensions for Google Chrome

• Grammarly
• ColorPick Eyedropper
• React developer tools
• Redux developer tools
• Tampermonkey
• Video speed controller
• Adblock plus