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Linux Mint Setup Guide

A Comprehensive Guide to Setup Linux Mint with the (subjectively) best softwares Note: If you have come across this document and want to add another useful application, please comment it below. Installation 1. Download the ISO file from https://linuxmint.com/download.php by checking which country is closest to you. Alternatively, if you are already on a linux system, you can go to the Software Sources section and click on the Main under the Mirror section. Let it be for a while and the mirrors will line up in a decreasing order of download speed. I would suggest downloading the file using an internet download manager since they are about 2 GB in size.  2. Disable fast startup in windows (read it in a tutorial somewhere that it is advisable to do this so as to not break anything. Do not know how true it is) 3. Follow the rest of this tutorial . It is about Linux Mint 18 but the steps for installation are the same anyway.  4. Once installed, go through the welcome dialogue box and do al

From a Doctor’s Home

Author’s Note Well, it would be a shame if I do not write a bit of GNA for my final edition, so here it is. It is not strictly an analysis of the scenario because I believe a lot of it has been done already. This is meant to be something different, something that you, the reader, might figure out by the end of this article. For those of you who do not know me, I am Monil Soni and my parents are doctors. My father is a physician and my mother is a general practitioner. Both of them have been practicing for quite some time. But this is no regular time, is it? It is the time of a global pandemic. This is the time when people have called out the World Health Organization for late action. This is the time when the supposed leader of the free world - United States of America - is spectacularly failing, and so are most of the countries. People are holed up in their homes (some of them are), and clashes are occurring in certain places in Ahmedabad (I am sure they are occurring in other places

A Noobie's Guide to Productivity

Author’s note Well, this is supposed to be technically the last edition I write in, and hence I decided to share some of the notes that I came across in my quest of improving myself. I just wrote this to add more context. I have remained unmotivated for the most part of my life and I still am. It was the summer before the internship drive, and I kind of realized I need to work really hard/smart if I am to get an internship in any company. So, like my batchmates, I started coding. But it was not enough. I decided to reorganize my life and get the maximum out of those few weeks that I had.  And that is when I actually started digging deep in the productivity domain. I started meditating using Headspace (would totally recommend btw), started journaling, and reading Meditation by Marcus Aurelius. While it didn’t drastically change my life, it was a decent enough change. I also got into Minimalism back in the summer. Anyway, since then, I have kept in touch with the domain and kept experime