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Things to Do after Installing Kubuntu 14.04
- Make the Grub bootloader accessible.
Otherwise, if you ever to need access to the bootloader, it will be too late.
Install package kde-config-grub2 and you can configure it with the mouse under System Settings, Startup and Shutdown, GRUB2 Bootloader. Choose "Automatically boot..." after 1 second, so that you have 1 second to press the arrow down key (for example) and stop the boot process.
Or manually: edit /etc/default/grub, add GRUB_TIMEOUT=1, comment out GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT, run sudo update-grub2.
You may also want to remove kernel options quiet and splash in order to see the boot messages. - Get some disk performance back.
Edit /etc/fstab and add options "noatime,commit=30" to your filesystems. - Disable unnecessary indexers:
- KDE Baloo (formerly Nepomuk). Go to System Settings, Desktop Search, and add your home folder, which acts as an indication to turn the indexer off.
- Akonadi. Go to System Settings, Personal Information, stop the service.
- updatedb / locate database. See mlocate conflicting package.
- Add pavucontrol (PulseAudio Volume Control) to your favourites.
For PCs with only 512 MiB RAM
- Get rid of apt-xapian-index, see Fake Replacement for Debian Package apt-xapian-index
- Prevent unexpected system updates.
Unexpected package manager activity in the background can render your PC unresponsive for a long time. Configure the system updates to check less often (weekly or every fortnight) and disable automatic installation. - Move your swap partition to another drive.
- If you have more than one drive, move the swap partition or file to the least-busy disk.
- Try swapping to a USB stick.
- If the computer has a memory card reader, you could use a fast memory card as the main swap drive.
- If your video card has a lot of memory, some people have managed to use some of it as a swap device.
