Tools and Services.

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The first thing I like to do when booting into the gui of Raspbian is to run any updates/upgrades.

Open terminal and run these commands.

sudo apt-get install update
sudo apt-get install upgrade

While still in the terminal I like to install VIM text editor. (I am most comfortable in VIM)

sudo apt-get install vim -y

I use Windows as my daily driver and all of my flash drives are NTFS, so I will want Linux to be able to read them.

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

Then I want to change the hostname.

Your hostname should be raspberrypi by default. Run this command to check.

hostname

Do the following to change the hostname.

sudo vim /etc/hostname

Press i to edit and replace the first line with your new hostname. Press esc, then :w (colon + w) to write your changes, then :q (colon + q) to quit the VIM editor.

Then edit your hosts file.

sudo vim /etc/hosts

Next to 127.0.1.1 replace the old host name with your new one.

Reboot.

Next I like to enable VNC and SSH for remote access.

GUI- In the Start Menu go to Preferences/Raspberry Pi Configuration

Select the Interfaces tab and select enable for SSH & VNC.

Click OK