Now that the new box is built, it’s off to make it work. As previously stated, I downloaded Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on DVD, but it had issues loading. I quickly made a bootable USB drive and was off to the races. I chose a minimal install without encryption and with updates. I can’t be bothered entering a password after every reboot, let alone remotely; but foremost, there’s nothing on the computer that needs to be encrypted.
Once completed, I first got the RAID1 with my music configured by creating a mount point, adding it to /etc/fstab and made an alias for it in my home folder. I then downloaded Roon, made it executable, installed its dependencies (curl, ffmpeg, cifs-utils) and then ran the installation script. On my Windows computer, I signed into Roon Desktop (btw, remember to sign out of any previous installations), added my music libraries and – most importantly – restored the latest backup of my previous Roon Core!
Next up was getting Duckdns so I can login remotely, UFW because it’s open for remote access, and configuring SSH for my website’s production host. Most of this was simple, though I did have to temporarily enable PasswordAuthentication on the production host for keys, and I also needed to reconfigure my router with the MAC address for the new motherboard to access the computer via port forwarding.
I then set to install the applications I need. Some are little tweaks like numlockx, while others were from that list I made – Audacious, Brasero, MOC, Easytag, etc, while fre:ac was a snap. I have issues with dt14-tmeter, which has always been prickly (fixed 04/26/22), and Totem which crashes and doesn’t play correctly under Wayland. I also imported bookmarks into Firefox and did quick run through of my top sites to get their passwords remembered.
I’m on the fence about tweaking out the UI, as the older I get the less I care about having it my way: Ubuntu and Gnome are good enough out of the box. I’m sure at some point I’ll get bored and add Gnome Extensions, Tweaks, get the Snap-free Firefox, change the colors etc, but for now, the computer is fine as it is. In the meantime, I will continue to use Xorg as everything seems to run best under it, including Totem, Audacious, etc.
One the web:
https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop
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