A great tip to increase ubuntu peformance

Ubuntu hides most of the system’s default autostart entries from this dialog. To view them, run the following command in a terminal:

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




Disable entries by unchecking their check boxes instead of clicking the Remove button









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A great way to increase swap on ubuntu

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In case you don't want or you're not sure how to create a swap partition, you can create a swap file which will work in the same way as partition. Here are the steps (using terminal):

1. Create an empty file (1K * 4M = 4 GiB).
   

   sudo mkdir -v /var/cache/swap
   cd /var/cache/swap
   sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1K count=4M
   sudo chmod 600 swapfile
   

2. Convert newly created file into a swap space file.
   

   sudo mkswap swapfile
   

3. Enable file for paging and swapping.
   

   sudo swapon swapfile
   

   Verify by: swapon -s or top:
   

   top -bn1 | grep -i swap
   

   Should display line like: KiB Swap: 4194300 total, 4194300 free
   To disable, use sudo swapoff swapfile command.
4. Add it into fstab file to make it persistent on the next system boot.
   

   echo "/var/cache/swap/swapfile none swap sw 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
   

5. Re-test swap file on startup by:
   

   sudo swapoff swapfile
   sudo swapon -va
   

   ^{Note: Above commands re-checks the syntax of fstab file, otherwise your Linux could not boot up properly.}

Making ubuntu as default OS on windows 10

I was able to successfully  install ubuntu  by following the documentation
from ubuntu website but my computer was not  booting  ubuntu by default .

After struggling a lot, Step 3 worked for me . You can directly go to step 3 instead of trying Step 1 and 2

1)  I executed the below instructions which I found after searching in google

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

The above steps installed boot-repair and executed the 

boot-repair utility. 

2) The above step did not help me and my computer was still booting to 

Windows 10 by default. 

Then I did the below step after rebooting to windows 10. 

Ran the command prompt as administrator and executed the below step
 

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi

Basically the above step made the GRUB as default bootloader 

instead of Windows Boot Manager which is also referred as 

OS boot Manager in the BIOS.

This step was advised in the step 1 by boot-repair utility itself 

if the boot-repair does not work.

3) The above solution only worked for one time and again the computer 

started to boot windows 10 by default.

Then I tried the below solution which finally worked for me

Invoke terminal

Sudo su 

cd  /boot/efi/EFI

mv Boot Boot_bak

cp -Rf ubuntu Boot

cd Boot

mv  shimx64.efi bootx64.efi 

cd ../

mv Microsoft Microsoft_bak