1. During Installation, always create swap space and a separate partition for the Home directory. Always select that partition for other Linux distributions also but do not format it. And create separate users for different-different distributions like /home/ubuntu for Ubuntu, /home/arch for arch Linux and so on.

  2. If your system has SSD then donot create swap space from SSD.

  3. Use Ubuntu Source List generator.

  4. Run sudo command without password
    If you don’t want to type sudo password again and again then run command sudo visudo and append the below line at the end.

    your_username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
    

    Save using Ctrl + X and Shift + y and press Enter. That’s it.

  5. Create user from Command line

    useradd --create-home --system --shell /bin/bash --user-group your_username
    
  6. XUbuntu is the best Linux distribution (in terms of performance). It has the power to give a new fresh life to slow and dying old pcs.

  7. To Generate subtitles of audio and video, install -

    sudo apt-get install ffmpeg && sudo pip install autosub
    

    To generate subtitle :

    autosub -o subtitlefile.srt "/path/to/file.mp4 or .mp3"
    

    If you are using Vlc to play the .mp3 file, then you have to select a visualization (Menu > Audio > Visualization > Select any) because Vlc cannot display subtitles without it.

  8. Detach a Linux Processes From Controlling Terminal

    command </dev/null &>/dev/null &
    
  9. For setting the paths, the file is /etc/environment

  10. Reset Mysql Password

  11. Auto mount ntfs partitions

  12. Change Nautilus Shortcut

  13. Fix Duplicate icons for manually created GNOME launcher items

  14. Execute sudo without Password : Open terminal and execute command

    sudo visudo
    

    Add the below line at the bottom

    username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
    

    Replace username with the username of your system. Now press Ctrl + X then Ctrl + Y and then press Enter.

  15. Display full list of startup applications and processes

    sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop
    

    Now you can open Startup Applications and remove unnecessary applications that starts as ubuntu starts.

  16. Enable passwordless ssh

  17. Add noatime to fstab to disable last accessed time.