Things to do after installing Elementary OS Luna

Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal and enter the following commands one-by-one

1. Update xorg using xorg-edgers PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

2a. Installing Proprietary Graphics Driver

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Note: If you don't have Nvidia GPU or if you don't want to use Proprietary Graphics Driver, then proceed with Step: #2b.


 2b. Generate xorg.conf For Open Source Graphics Driver

If you want to use open source video drivers (fglrx, nouveau) generate xorg.conf to improve performance.

Press Ctrl+Alt+F1

sudo service lightdm stop

sudo Xorg -configure

sudo mv xorg.conf.new xorg.conf

sudo mv xorg.conf /etc/X11/

sudo reboot 

3. Install Ubuntu Restricted Extras

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

4. Install Another Web Browser

Open terminal or Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and copy the following commands in the terminal

To install Mozilla Firefox:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next

sudo apt-get update

 sudo apt-get install firefox

To install Google Chrome:

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list'

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

5. Install Elementary Tweaks to customize the desktop

Elementary Tweaks is a customization tool specially build for Elementary OS. To install it, copy the following commands into the terminal. After the installation is complete, you'll be able to access it by opening the System Settings and clicking on Tweaks. 

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:versable/elementary-update

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install elementary-tweaks

6. Install VLC Media Player Latest Version

Open terminal or Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and copy the following commands in the terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vlc

7. Install Kingsoft Office Suite

Kingsoft Office is a simple, powerful office suite developed by Zhuhai based Chinese software developer Kingsoft. Components include: Kingsoft Writer, Kingsoft Presentation and Kingsoft Spreadsheet. Kingsoft Office personal version is completely free. With the Kingsoft Office suite, you can view, edit, and send Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets, and other data on Linux. This offers most of the features and functionality like Microsoft Office.

Kingsoft Office

Kingsoft Writer

Kingsoft Presentation

 Kingsoft Spreadsheet

To install Kingsoft Office, Open terminal or Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and copy the following commands in the terminal

>> For 32bit

cd && wget -O kingsoft-office-NoobsLab.deb http://goo.gl/1iAW65

sudo dpkg -i kingsoft-office-NoobsLab.deb

rm kingsoft-office-NoobsLab.deb

>> For 64bit

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

cd && wget -O kingsoft-office-NoobsLab.deb http://goo.gl/1iAW65

sudo dpkg -i kingsoft-office-NoobsLab.deb

rm kingsoft-office-NoobsLab.deb

8. Install Wine for running Windows Software on Linux

Press Ctrl+Atl+T to open a terminal and Enter the following commands one-by-one

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks