10 Things You MUST DO after Installing Manjaro Linux

hello everybody this is teca and in this video what we're going to be doing is going over the 10 things that you need to do when you first install manjaro linux now i have a video already going over some of these it's the five things video but that's more of a longer format i spend a lot of time in terminal and i'm just making this so it's more easily digestible for the new user and there are going to be a couple other tips that i do recommend you do so the first five things in this video are all going to be within pamac the software manager built into manjaro this is what it looks like right here if you are trying to find it you can go into your search on anything type in software and go to the add remove software or you could simply just search for pamac and it is the add remove software so once you're in here we're going to want to go over to our properties so go ahead you have these two dots i mean three dots click on that go to preferences and here it's going to ask you to type in a password to verify that you have the permissions to do this and then from here the first thing you're going to want to do is go over to the official repositories tab here is where you can refresh your mirrors list now the mirrors are the servers that you're going to pull all your software and updates from and you want to make sure that you are using the quickest one clicking this button will scan all of them available and then give you well it will automatically set the quickest as your default now you could choose from worldwide or whatever country you're in i do suggest you keep worldwide because then there might be a quicker one just right across the border from you than what is natively available in your country so keep it at worldwide and then click refresh meters list this will take anywhere from three to ten minutes depending on your internet speed and when it's all done then you go ahead and continue on to the next step which is actually updating your system so to do this we're going to want to close out our preferences here and up on the top you have three options browse installed and updates if you go ahead and click on updates it will check your system for updates and show you what you have available you see i have three updates here none of these are actual system updates for other software i have installed on my computer but i do recommend you make sure that all the upgrades are checked go ahead and click apply and when this comes up you just hit apply and then it's going to go ahead and build the packages download them and update them and then once it is done you will see a check and your system is up to date now speaking of updates we could go ahead and go back into our preferences real quick here type in our password as requested and then under general you'll see an option that says check for updates and you can select to do that but right here automatically download updates that's one thing i do that's completely up to you and it kind of depends on if you have bandwidth limitations as well because there could be a lot of them depending on how much software you have installed so once i check that the next step is going to be to enable the arch user repositories if you go to this tab right here aur click on that you can see i already have it enabled on my system but you're going to want to check this over i go with keep built packages in the cache and check for updates by default manjaro has a good amount of official repositories and software available to download but there are going to be a ton of things you want to get that aren't available on the official major repositories and that's when the r comes in handy because there are tens of thousands of different packages supported by the community in there that you could go ahead and download through this and with it enabled within pat mac pam mac it seamlessly just works with everything so we're going to go ahead and close this out and actually an example of something that we're going to want to get from the aur is something called tt f dash m s give that a quick search and then you can see right here the ttf-ms-fonts and what this is is the microsoft font package this is really handy for if you're working in office software and you need to do something for example in times new roman that's not available by default in linux and that could make it a challenge to move office documents back and forth between linux and windows systems so it's good to have this and have all the microsoft fonts available so once you get that done what we're going to do is go under installed go to the orphans right here and you can see there's actually quite a bit of applications now what orphans are is they are applications or packages that aren't being used by anything else or yourself so everything in here you don't really need so you go through and actually scan and make sure of this but in general you can just go ahead and check all the packages remove them once you have everything checked you could go ahead hit apply and then you could see a list of everything that's going to get removed and then you could hit apply again and it will go ahead and do that now if you have a lot of them it will be easier to do a command here i have it down below you just type that command into terminal as a sudo and you will be good to go so now number six what we're going to talk about is auto mounting now i do have a full tutorial on how to do this the right way which is through the fstab file but i'm going to show you the quick way through the graphical user interface that is good for now so to do this we're just going to want to go to our start menu or however you search for software and then go to disks and then once you have this open this is how you can select what drives you want to auto mount now there's a wide variety of reasons you may want to do this an example that i have is my virtual machine if i go over here you can see virtual machines right here it's currently mounted but by default it's not mounted in the manjaro system which then if it's not mounted and for example i opened up virtualbox it will say there's no virtual machines accessible and then if i went ahead and mounted it you will be able to see that it is and this is good to do with situations like that if you have a backup drive which i do here you're going to want to automatically mount that just so everything is already connected and you won't run into any issues so you can see my drives here this is my main partition this is my media my backup and my virtual machine i already have auto mounting set up on both of these so i'm going to show you how to auto mount my media drive it's as simple as going clicking on this gear icon here and then editing the mount options when this comes up you have the user session defaults automatically checked now i do recommend you if you're going to do this on a permanent basis and this isn't just to play around test it out i do recommend you check out that tutorial and edit the f stab you can see here it says switch off this and it will manage it through here instead of the f stab so for now we're going to go ahead and deselect this and then right here mount on system startup is automatically selected you just make sure it is you can edit some of this information here change the amount point but for now everything is good to go if you do want to get into some of this nitty gritty do it through the fstab so once you do that you click ok and now if i were to reboot my system the media drive will be automatically mounted on boot so now for step seven we are going to go ahead and enable our firewall so here we have our firewall application this is one of the most simple ones if you do open up your firewall for example i have two of them firewall boom boom depending on which one you have it may or may not look like this i'll have a command down below if you want to install this one just for demonstration sake i'll show you what my other firewall configuration looks like it looks like this so for new people this one is going to be a lot easier to manage this is the gufw firewall and it's as simple as going under firewall going to status giving this a slide on over and now your firewall is enabled it's as simple as that i do recommend you go under here to getting started and kind of reading through all these basic instructions and how it works how to set up certain rules and check out your logs so you can see i have it enabled here and that is the simple way to enable your firewall and then from here what we're going to want to do for step number eight is enable backups so to do this we do this with a program called time shift let's type in our password here i do have a separate tutorial on how to do this as well that's way more in-depth but the things i'll know is when you first open it up it will take you through a setup wizard so if i click on this this is what the setup wizard looks like go with this first selection go next i do recommend you put your snapshots on a external drive because if something happens to your main hard drive and that's also where you're storing your snapshots then they're gone you don't have them so i put them in my backup drive that's one of the reasons i automatically mount it another option for you could be if you're gonna do some major configurations or every once in a while maybe plug in a usb set that as your snapshot location and then go ahead and run a snapshot if you do plug in a usb all you need to do is make sure that you set that as your snapshot location and click on create and then if something does happen that tutorial does go over how to boot into a live disk and actually back up your system with time shift now step number nine is to actually go through your system it's nothing specific but you need to go through your system settings in your manjaro settings and truly configure and make it yours so this is the system settings for the plasma desktop environment now i like i should have mentioned this earlier i'm on kde plasma most of this will look almost identical in any other desktop environments this might look a little bit different but the idea still applies you need to go through go through your hardware configuration make sure that you have the right drivers so you see i have a nvidia card so i have the non-open source drivers installed that's very important as well as my network driver it does work a little bit better with the non-open source installed so go through make sure drivers are good you can update your kernel here if you'd like to if you're new i'd suggest you just leave this alone let it stay on the default and upload not upload update as manjaro sees fit so i'm running the 5.8 which seems to be a pretty good one i would never recommend anybody use a experimental kernel build it will probably break things and if you're having issues with certain hardware or programs not running right it doesn't hurt to back pedal and maybe install a lts kernel or even just go back for example to the 5.7 kernel and then just go through all the settings go through your appearance settings change everything how you want so with this plasma you have all these different themes it's beautiful this is all kind of plasma specific stuff and if i were to go in here and search up manjaro you have your manjaro settings manager which has some of that same stuff here so this is a more condensed version of those hardware configurations your keyboard settings i do recommend you go into time and date and make sure that this is synced properly so you go in here you set set time and date automatically or you could change it by the hardware clock and local time zone but i recommend you set it automatically hit apply type in your password and you're good to go so run through all the settings available truly make it your own set up your local user accounts do everything to configure your system and that takes us to step 10 and that is to finally load it up with all the software that you need to have a good computing experience i will have these two articles linked down below this one is the top 10 linux applications it has a video for it as well but you could go through here and get some of the things that i would recommend for example like you launcher stacer which is basically a ccleaner application for linux time shift which is fortunately pre-built into manjaro you have caden live clean though vlc which is another thing built into manjaro that's one thing that's really good about manjaro is a lot of the applications that you absolutely need to have a good experience will be installed on the get-go you have gnome tweaks if you're running the gnome etcher which is a good usb image writer and if i go over here these are applications for content curator so if you're the creative type this will have the recommended writing video editing auto editing photography software of choice featuring a ton of curators that helped me make this video you could watch that over here let's see if i'm pointing the right way no you can watch that over there there's a playlist down there for arm all my linux content right below me you can subscribe that's about it i hope you have a wonderful day and goodbye

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Length: 13min 28sec (808 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 23 2020