petergiuntoli / computer-setup

Scripts necessary to bootstrap a computer to the point where it can download private repositories from Github

Computer setup

This repository is forked from a public repository that contains the setup scripts for a new One More Game employee. I've modified them to setup my own personal computer while still being able to be a, somewhat, good employee.

New Desktop PC Setup

Normal One More Game PCs come imaged with a single administrator user (Jamie) and need to first be configured before attempting to setup user land in the next section. We'll skip this step.

1. DON'T DO THIS: Perform the initial setup by running one of the following commands

   "%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/petergiuntoliisdumb/computer-setup/master/bin/host-setup.ps1'))"

   iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/petergiuntoliisdumb/computer-setup/master/bin/host-setup.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex

2. Reboot the machine

New Windows User Setup

1. Login to Windows with the desired user

2. Run one of the following commands

   "%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/petergiuntoli/computer-setup/master/bin/setup.ps1'))"

   iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/petergiuntoli/computer-setup/master/bin/setup.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex

Post-installation

We recommend configuring your computer using the petergiuntoli/dotfiles repository, which configures, among other things, sane defaults for bash across Windows/WSL/Mac/Linux, and allows for running X-Windows (GUI) programs from WSL.

Windows Issues

If you're endeavoring to change setup.ps1 on Github and it is not working, remember that Powershell performs web-request caching, which you'll need to disable:

iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/petergiuntoli/computer-setup/master/bin/setup.ps1 -UseBasicParsing -Headers @{ "Pragma"="no-cache"; "Cache-Control"="no-cache"; } | iex

(from https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/8qd9sm/invokewebrequest_pulling_stale_data_from_github/e0ialgd/)

Windows Subsystem for Linux

We use the "Nix" package manager, but it does not work in WSL version 1 because WSL1 filesystem emulation does not work properly (NixOS/nix#1203). The remediations listed in that Github issue do not work (i.e. use-sqlite-wal = false, sandbox = false) nor does setting the Windows "Enable Long Filenames" registry entry, reported as a fix elsewhere.

However, WSL version 2 does work, but the official release date is still in the future as of this writing, so:

1. Subscribe to the Windows Insider Program
   • With your personal Microsoft Account with the Online Insider Enroll or
   • In an automated way by performing an Offline Insider Enroll
2. Set your Windows Insider update cycle to the 'Slow Ring'
3. Update Windows
4. Install the Ubuntu WSL Distribution
5. Set the default WSL version number wsl --set-default-version 2
6. Set the WSL version number for Ubuntu: wsl --set-version ubuntu 2