I'm putting Ubuntu on one of my systems so that I have a place to try a thing before I tell Ubuntu-using friends to try a thing I've previously only ever done under NixOS.

Edit T383838/etc/inputrc to set T383838editing-mode to vi.

Install the following: - Tmux - Neovim - Kitty - ripgrep - curl - Obsidian (from beta appimage on obsidian.mu) + zlib1g (for libz.so) - curl

The EDITOR variable isn't set by default anymore. Append the following content to T383838.bashrc:

set -o vi # semi-redundant

shopt -s histverify

export EDITOR=nvim

alias newnote="(cd ~/messy; ${EDITOR} notes/$(date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S').mu)"

Ubuntu advertises some kind of app store upon login, but it's not integrated with apt, everything I've needed to install has been via T383838apt, none of my usual tools are in the app store.

I couldn't figure out how to get libfuse to be usable by the AppImage, so I had to explode the Obsidian files into a directory and run it from the exploded files instead of the bundled AppImage.

Tags: ubuntu

created: 2024-08-04

(re)generated: 2026-07-17