Published 2022-11-19 by Seth Michael Larson
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I recently purchased a new laptop after spending a few months without one. This purchase has been a long time coming as I was waiting for Black Friday deals to start in the US to save some money.
I received many recommendations about the XPS 15 9500 series, thanks all. I set my sights on the XPS 15 9520 that seemed to have specs that will last the full 8 years I'm hoping to get out of this purchase. These were the specs I chose:
After a few days of use I absolutely love the machine and am so happy to get back into open source after an extended break. I recorded my "speed run" to setup my machine to be ready for open source contributions below so others can recreate it:
sudo apt-get install build-essential git openssh-client gnome-tweaks \
libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev \
llvm libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev xz-utils tk-dev libffi-dev \
liblzma-dev gedit
Right clicks didn't work out of the box which can be a frustrating experience. I've been
through this before though, the gnome-tweaks package has a setting to fix this.
I previously saved my SSH public and private key and GPG key into my password manager under secure notes. Time to retrieve those values and get access to my passwords so I can login to my accounts.
id_rsa, id_rsa.pub, and gpg.key files from secure notes# Put your keys here:
gedit ~/.ssh/id_rsa
gedit ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
# Apply the proper permissions (u+rw)
chmod -R 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa*
# Import my GPG key after exporting from other machine:
# gpg --export-secret-key ${id} > gpg.key
gpg --import gpg.key
git config --global user.name "Seth Michael Larson"
git config --global user.email "sethmichaellarson@gmail.com"
# Telling git about my GPG key
gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format=long
# /home/sethmlarson/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
# ------------------------------------
# sec rsa4096/022EB89790807303 ...
# id is '022EB89790807303' from above output
git config --global user.signingkey 022EB89790807303
# Telling git to always sign commits
git config --global commit.gpgsign true
git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv
cd ~/.pyenv && src/configure && make -C src
echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
At this point I closed and restarted a terminal instance to get pyenv on the path.
pyenv install 3.11.0
pyenv global 3.11.0
sudo snap install pycharm-community --classic
From here I'm ready to work on open source projects, happy hacking!