Since Cygwin doesn’t come with an uninstaller, we need to use commands to remove it.
takeown /r /d y /f C:\cygwin64
icacls C:\cygwin64 /t /grant Everyone:FRemove-Item "C:\cygwin64" -Recurse -ForceQuick lookup on how to secure Windows
I can’t really believe why there are only several students who knew that we can get tons of licenses for Microsoft products under the education scheme (We probably paid for it under our school fees)
Anyways, here are the steps:
Examples of cool software:
Quick cheatsheet which I often use to bring up a Ubuntu machine.
Update
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -yMinimal GUI (might not work well on ubuntu 16)
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xorg xterm gdm menu gksu synaptic
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-session gnome-panel metacity gnome-terminal indicator-session
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop
Coding Environment
# vscode apt
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > packages.microsoft.gpg
sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 packages.microsoft.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/packages.microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list'
apt-get update
apt-get install code terminatorVScode Settings
Other Software
apt-get install software-properties-commonFaster
echo "vm.swappiness=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
sysctl -pBasically Youtrip is offering Mastercard exchange rates for 140+ currencies without any bank fees which is awesome. The only issue is that their exchange rate check is via the Mastercard calculator, which is slow and inefficient.
So, to speed up currency conversion, I have coded yet another currency converter, but it displays the converted amount using the actual mastercard rates (which may have different spreads compared to google or xe.com)
Screenshot:
