Intro

Ubuntu seems to be the data science standard now.

Terminal windows

You pretty much do all system stuff via the terminal with good old Linux commands
Ctrl-Shift-V to paste

The automatic installd did not work
Downloaded the deb package (google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb) from google into ~/Downloads
Installed gdebi with sudo apt-get install gdebi
Installed chrome with sudo gdebi -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
Found “Google Chrome” in /usr/share/applications

You can see your driver version with cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
You can also see it with nvidia-smi if you have Cuda installed on windows or Ubuntu (but not on L4T apparently)
You can set the drivers via the GUI
- Select System & Updates - a dialog will then open up
- Then select the Additional Drivers Tab
- It claims the NVIDIA binary drivers are open source but I have my doubts.

For a long time this did not work at all as Ubuntu uses a Desktop Environment as opposed to a window manager.
There are two ways to do remote desktop, VNC or RDP (the latter is kind of Windows specific and has better graphics than Generic VNC which is JPEG vased).
TigerVNC (derived from the older TightVNC) apparently supports RDP too.
Install xrdp
Install TigerVNC on Ubuntu (https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/releases)
TigerVNC Ubuntu Install instructions
Note that in bintray there are binaries just fur Ubuntu
Had to install with gdebi to get the dependencies installed.
Useful post setting screen size is here

write scripts and dump then in your ~/bin directory to save typing
begin then with #!/bin/bash remember “shebang bin bash”
you can’t used them to change directory unless you run them in your shell with a dot command like . cdobjdet

installed mir on Ubuntu with sudo apt-get install unity8-desktop-session-mir
this was a heavy install that apparently installs the unity8 desktop (although I did not see it)
Changed the configuration to enable remote desktop with “dconf-editor”
under org.gnome.desktop.remote-access set the “enabled” checkbox
You then get a connection, but the tiger vncclient complains there is no matching encription
you can get a connection by settting “require-encryption” above to false
Left it disabled for now
Next steps: substitute tigervnc for vino-server

find a library file - find / -name lib*
find a library file locally - find . -name lib*
grep stuff files - grep -r tqdm *.py .
find files with a mask - find . -path "*/src/*.h"
find files with masks - find . -path '*/src/*.h' -o -path '*/src/*.cpp'
find files and pipe to grep - find . -path '*/src/*.h' -exec grep PATTERN {} \;
same with filename and line - find . -path '*/src/*.h' -exec grep -Hn PATTERN {} \;
- see this https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/131535/recursive-grep-vs-find-type-f-exec-grep-which-is-more-efficient-faster
Another example of finding with grep: find . -path '*.mk' -type f -exec grep -i 'UBUNTU_PKG_NAME =' {} +
After finding things we need to change: find . -path '*.mk' -type f -exec sed -i 's/nvidia-367/nvidia-384/g' {} \;
change field 3 to AD - awk '{$3 = "AD"; print}' infile > outfile
lookin in markdown for a whole word pattern ‘iot’ with file name and line number – find . -name '*.md' -exec grep -Hn -w iot {} \;
count how many hits – find . -name '*.md' -exec grep -w iot {} \; | wc -l
ls just directories: ls -d */

Followed instructions on Ubuntu site to burn USB stick to boot from
Downloaded an ISO and put it on there
Needs a live Internet connection apparently (uses DHCP)
Couldn’t boot from the stick in Hyper-V because the USB drive has no pass-thru functionality (oddly)
Installation straightforward
Installed Chrome next (via Firefox)