Manual platform configuration - tiesjan/dotfiles GitHub Wiki

Platform independent

Firefox, through about:config:
- set browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML to true
- set browser.bookmarks.file to <bookmarks_path>
Kitty: place the configured theme in the kitty configuration directory using the themes kitten
Libreoffice: set Locale to "Dutch" in Language Settings → Languages

Linux

File systems:
- Mount options by file system:
  - ext4: noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro
  - NTFS: noatime,windows_names
- Swap file:
  - create and enable /swap file of 4GB:
```
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1024 count=4194304
# chmod 600 /swap
# mkswap /swap
# swapon /swap
```
  - mount as file system /swap, mount point none, type swap and options sw
- Temporary directory /tmp:
  - mount as tmpfs with options mode=1777, nodev, noexec, nosuid
  - make sure to remove the original directory
- Ensure systemd timer fstrim is enabled
GNOME extensions:
- Alphabetical App Grid
- Dash To Dock
GRUB, in /etc/default/grub:
- set the following GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT boot options:
  - cpufreq.default_governor=performance
  - preempt=full
  - quiet
  - splash
  - threadirqs
- set GRUB_DEFAULT to saved
- set GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER to false
- set GRUB_SAVE_DEFAULT to true
Keyboard: set input sources "Dutch (US)" and "Chinese (Intelligent Pinyin)"
Zsh, set default shell:
```
# chsh -s /bin/zsh ${USER}
```

Windows

Edge, under System and Performance → System settings:
- disable "Start-up boost"
- disable "Continue running background extensions and apps when Microsoft Edge is closed"

System time as UTC:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation]
"RealTimeIsUniversal"=hex(b):01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00